Biological Recording Company

Dr Tony Madgwick is the London Natural History Society’s Recorder for Bees and Wasps. Tony’s mission is to support the appreciation, study and recording of London’s wild bee and wasp populations. To this end, he runs a number of events on sites across the capital, leading both formal surveys and informal “bee walks”. Tony has a number of other specialist interests linked to bees, pollination and pollinators, including insect cleptoparasites and parasitoids of bees, Hoverflies and Tachinid flies. Tony is a verifier on iRecord for Bee-fly Watch and the Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society (BWARS).

Dr Nikki Gammans has worked for Bumblebee Conservation Trust since 2009, firstly as a project officer and more recently, as Conservation Project Manager for SE England. Prior to conservation work, she completed a PhD and Post Doc on ant behaviour and ecology.

Louise Wilson has been working with dogs her entire adult life. Louise has previously worked with detection dogs for the police, the armed forces, UK Border Force and HMRC, and has been involved in deployments for detecting a wide range of targets such as explosives, firearms, drugs, cash, tobacco, stowaways and even human remains. Louise set up the Conservation K9 Consultancy to focus on training detection dogs for conservation surveys, Louise is unrivalled in her experience in the field of conservation detection dog training, and deployment. She is particularly passionate about championing dog welfare standards.