Course content

Contains 17 recorded speaker presentations and Q&A transcripts from events between 2023 and 2026

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    1. Planning for Nature: Biodiversity Data in the Planning Process

    2. Raising the Standard: Improving Data Quality Through Practical Guidance and Tools

    3. Butterfly and Moth Alert Maps: Mobilising National Data for Decision-making

    4. Local Nature Recovery Strategies: Leveraging LERC Data to Map Berkshire and Oxfordshire’s LNRSs

    1. Charismatic Clearwings in Mid Wales

    2. Tracking the Impact: Landscape Scale Monitoring Across the Chilterns

    3. 30 Years of Garden BirdWatch

    4. Getting To Scale: Biodiversity Monitoring for Local Change Detection

    1. Networks for Nature: How DBRC Data is Creating More Species-friendly Highways

    2. Better Together: LERCs and Nature Partnerships, An Example From Lincolnshire

    3. Day To Day Uses of Species Records in the Environment Agency

    4. The Importance of BNG Data for Local Planning Authorities

    1. How iRecord Helps a Local Wildlife Group

    2. Ten Years of Talking to People About iRecord: A County Perspective on Online Recording

    3. Shifting Ground: The Ground Beetle Recording Scheme on iRecord

    4. Supporting Science: A New Collaborative Approach to Supporting Verification

    5. Biological Records Centre: Supporting iRecord into the Future

About this course

  • £30.00
  • 18 lessons
  • 8.5 hours of video content

What presentations will feature in this virtual symposium?

Aimed at naturalists, biological recorders and LERC staff, as well as ecologists, conservation professionals, and environmental practitioners, interested in learning about the latest projects, case studies and technologies involved in biological recording.

  • Understand how biological recording data supports decision-making at local, regional, and national scales.Develop knowledge of practical approaches to collecting, managing, and verifying species data.

  • Develop knowledge of practical approaches to collecting, managing, and verifying species data.

  • Explore tools, partnerships, and best practices that strengthen citizen science and ecological recording initiatives.

  • Gain insight into real-world applications of biodiversity data in conservation, planning, and policy.

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Virtual Symposiums

This content was generated through our virtual symposium programme. These one-off events cover a wide range of conservation, ecology and natural history topics such as Biodiversity Net Gain, biological recording and wildlife gardening.