NEWS
01st November 2023
The
BRMC Annual Report for 2022-23 is available on our website.
7th December 2022
The
BRMC Annual Report for 2021-22 is available on our website.
23rd November 2022
BRMC has completed work on the first stage of a new Ancient Woodland Inventory for Bedfordshire. This project is being continued by The Wildlife Trust BCN, who are looking for volunteers to help with initial surveys on potential Ancient Woodland sites, in Spring 2023. Please find more information
on the Trust's webpage.
21st March 2022
We are pleased to announce that we will be able to provide bat data on behalf of the Bedfordshire Bat Group as part of our data search services from the 1st April 2022. A fee will be charged to cover the costs of this service, with a proportion going to the Bat Group to cover their on-going support.
13th July 2021
The
BRMC Annual Report for 2020-21 is available on our website.
16th December 2019
Biodiversity Data Search Guidance for Ecological Consultants - new guidance available for Ecologists using Biological Data on planning applications.
15th October 2019
The
BRMC Annual Report for 2018-19 is available on our website.
16th July 2019
Nominations are open for the 2019
NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording.
13th July 2019
The
Big Forest Find at Maulden Wood. Drop in between 10am and 4pm for a family friendly day discovering the woodland wildlife. Guided nature walks, bug hunting and more! Meet at the Working Woodland Centre.
1st April 2019
From 1st April 2019, our fees have increased slightly. You can see our new
fees
here.
11th October 2018
The
BRMC Annual Report for 2017-18 has been added to the
What we do page.
11th September 2018
BRMC has been re-accredited by ALERC for a further five years.
11th November 2017
Orchards East project launched for Bedfordshire. BRMC gave a presentation on how we have digitised orchards from the second edition OS maps.
Wildlife Trust BCN outline the project in this article.
If you'd like to be involved in surveying, training or other opportunities, visit the Orchards East website.
18th August 2017
The
BRMC Annual Report for 2016-17 has been added to the
What we do page.
3rd April 2017
The NBN have released the new
NBN Atlas.
26th Sept 2016
Most of the Habitat Action Plans in the local BAP have been updated
HERE
12th Sept 2016
The Terms and Conditions on our
Information Request Form have been updated. Please ensure that you submit requests using the "September 2016" version of the form.
28th July 2016
The
BRMC Annual Report for 2015-16 has been added to the
What we do page.
28th July 2016
The leaflet promoting the services of the BRMC has been updated and can be downloaded
HERE and from the
What we do page.
14th April 2016
Updates to County Wildlife Site selection guidelines relating to Bird Criteria are available
HERE.
31st July 2015
The
BRMC Annual Report for 2014-15 has been added to the
What we do page.
23rd July 2015
With the addition of 369,086 bird records we have now supplied over 1 million records to the NBN Gateway! See our datasets metadata
HERE.
20th July 2015
The eastern region
Data Management Code of Conduct has been updated.
1st April 2015
Our charges for data searches have been adjusted for the first time in more than four years. See
Charges for Data Searches for details.
1st April 2015
We have updated our
Information Request Form.
23rd July 2014
The Chalk Arc website has been relocated to our webspace
HERE.
21st July 2014
The
BRMC Annual Report for 2013-14 has been added to the
What we do page.
8th August 2013
The
BRMC Annual Report for 2012-13 has been added to the
What we do page.
24th June 2013
The BRMC was successfully accredited by
ALERC.
26th April 2013
Policy 12 has been extended to include capture of geographical information
HERE.
18th January 2013
Details on District Wildlife Sites (a new tier beneath County Wildlife Sites) have been added
HERE.
14th January 2013
Updates to County Wildlife Site selection guidelines relating to rare vascular plants available
HERE.
14th January 2013
Metadata for available BAP habitat GIS layers added on a new page
HERE. Also added as a document within the bundle of GIS layers on the Partner Pages.
30th November 2012
A document showcasing the types of service available from the East of England LRCs has been added
HERE.
25th October 2012
Updated
CWS selection Guidelines and
CWS leaflet.
15th October 2012
The
BRMC Annual Report for 2011-12 has been added to the
What we do page.
23rd August 2012
The most important documents formerly hosted on the
BedsLife website are now hosted in the
BedsLife section of this website.
July 2012
11 existing NBN Gateway datasets updated and one new one added (Stylops). View metadata
HERE.
May 2012
Updated County Wildlife Site selection guidelines to include Lakes criteria prepared and available
HERE.
April 2012
The BRMC was asked to assist with the Bedfordshire and Luton Local Nature Partnership (LNP) capacity building project to investigate
engagement between environmental information users and providers.
The final report is now available
HERE and apppendix 2 (the survey itself)
HERE.
25th January 2012
The
Millionth record was added to the BRMC database today! It was of 15
Hoplodrina alsines "Uncertain" moths, recorded on 21st June 2011 in Biggleswade by Lionel Burgess. Many thanks to him and to all the naturalists and County Recorders that provided the other 999,999 records that enabled us to reach this major milestone!
29th June 2011
The eastern region
Data Management Code of Conduct has been added to the
regional cooperation page.
14th April 2011
A successful planning and biodiversity conference was held in Cambridge in association with CPERC.
Nearly 100 delegates heard excellent talks from the guest speakers and local authority staff were able to mix with colleagues from other councils.
To learn more about it click
HERE
21st March 2011
Policies updated.
11th March 2011
New website launched.
March 2011
Now on
facebook
June 2010
Jackie Ullyett appointed as BRMC Manager
March 2010
BRMC contributes the
50 Millionth record to the NBN Gateway!
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