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Apply for a Cofnod grant to help support your biological recording in North Wales. Small grants (up to £500) are available.

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All the latest Odonata information from North Wales.

Funded by Natural Resources Wales' (NRW) partnership programme, the Welsh Fishermen's Association - Cymdeithas Pysgotwyr Cymru (WFA-CPC) and Succorfish have developed and trialled a method for fishermen to monitor and record invasive non-native species (INNS) across Wales....

All the latest information on Welsh wildlife.

This is a one year contract post for a 0.6 FTE (21 hours per week) Full Stack Developer to work on Aderyn - a website serving Welsh biodiversity data to the general public and logged-in users.

The post is working for the Local Environmental Records Centres Wales consortium and is hosted by South East Wales Biodiversity Records Centre Ltd (SEWBReC), based at their office in Talbot Green, Pontyclun, Mid Glamorgan.

The closing date for applications is 3rd September 2018. Use the link to find out how to apply.

Lots of Odonata history in this issue and a plea for information on historical records in North Wales.

Cofnod are pleased to announce the launch of the LERC Wales smartphone app. Based on the iRecord system, it has been adapted by Welsh Local Records Centres to provide a bilingual interface, using your phone’s GPS to locate where you are and an online species dictionary and photo upload to make a note of what you’ve seen. You can access your mobile records through iRecord and the data are synced with our database at Cofnod and the other Welsh LERCs if you’re recording further afield. The app is free to download from Google Play and Apple App Store and we hope you’ll enjoying using it to record our wonderful wildlife when you’re out and about in Wales.

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Latest news on Welsh drought wildlife.

TV presenter and naturalist Chris Packham is to come to North Wales, as part of the first independent audit of its kind in the UK involving Citizen Science. His goal is to highlight the extent to which the nation’s species are under threat.

On 20/07/2018 he’ll be coming to Cemlyn, Great Orme and Pensychnant, three of 48 sites across the country he’ll be stopping off as part of his UK Bioblitz – nature reserves are not enough! Campaign.