KESS 2 East PhD Scholarship:
The effect of managed honeybees on wild pollinator networks
School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Wales
Project ID: BUK2E024
Annual Stipend: £14,483
Application Deadline: 30 November 2019
Conwy CBC are looking to recruit a Local Nature Partnership Co-ordinator for three days per week until March 2022. The main purpose of the role will be to engage communities, businesses, public bodies and others in local activity that can help enable a long-term, sustainable difference to nature recovery. As we have one Local Nature Partnership across north east Wales, the role will also involve working closely with colleagues from the other authorities.
Will be recruiting through an employment agency, so prospective candidates should contact Barbara Owsianka or Tom Gravett asap for details of how to apply.
This year's Cofnod Conference was attended by over 90 people. A big thank you to all those who attended and all those who gave their talks, which are now available to download from here.
If you attended and would like to give your feedback on the day please fill in our questionnaire.
Welsh Wildcats and frost.
Post for Gwynedd Local Nature partnership co-ordinator. This post requires a Welsh speaker.
Closing date: 10:00 am Thursday 07/11/2019.
Interviews will be held 21/11/2019.
Wales’ wildlife continues to decline according to the State of Nature 2019 report, with the latest findings showing that one in six species in Wales are at risk of extinction. Since rigorous scientific monitoring began in the 1970s, there’s been a 13% decline in average abundance across wildlife studied across the UK.
Click on the botton below to see the 'Key Findings' for Wales or follow the link for the full report (including one for the UK), plus other useful resources.
Every month we will be providing maps and information about poorly recorded monads in North Wales to encourage recorders to get out to locations with few or zero records.
Dyma arlwy Llên Natur am fis Hydref. Mae’n rhyfedd sut mae pob tymor - pob mis i raddau - yn cael ei nodweddu gan y pethau sydd wedi mynd â’ch sylw chi. Gwyfynod mewnfudol sy’n sefyll allan y mis hwn, ac yn gynyddol, eu hepil a fagwyd yma yn groes i’r disgwyl yn sgil y tywydd poeth iawn. A son am dywydd poeth, mae gwleidyddiaeth Newid Hinsawdd hefyd yn poethi. Rydyn ni’n ceisio cadw hwnnw allan o’r Bwletin ond does dim rhaid sgrolio’n bell yn Cymuned Llên Natur i deimlo’r gwres!
Every month we will be providing maps and information about poorly recorded monads in North Wales to encourage recorders to get out to locations with few or zero records.
Lots of Lepidoptera articles in this issue.