Record Centre News
4 May 2010
Sussex Wildlife Trust have posted a wealth of useful advice on their website regarding planning and biodiversity.
[ Sussex Wildlife Trust planning advice ]
The Government’s Planning Policy Statement 9 “sets out planning policies on protection of biodiversity and geological conservation through the planning system.” Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre can, as always, provide you with vital biodiversity information essential in making or responding to planning applications. Get in touch to discuss your project.
10 January 2008
Simon Davey, Sussex county lichen recorder and British Lichen Society representative, has produced a comprehensive checklist of Lichen found in Sussex. Simon has put a lot of time and effort into the list and so we would like to thank him for providing the community with such a useful resource.
Two versions of the checklist are available:
12 December 2006
Patrick Roper, our rare species coordinator, has penned another fascinating SxBRC Occasional Paper. Number 7 in the series, this paper briefly examines the seaweed Codium fragile ssp. tomentosoides, one of the species found on the Priority List of Problem Species in Need of Control.
[ Download SxBRC Occaional Paper No. 7 ]
Picture: Luis A. Solorzano, californiabiota.com
1 June 2006
[SxBRC Development Plan PDF Download] (1.3MB)
Local Record Centres have a complex spread of relationships and it is important that we plan ahead and stay on top of the heavy demand for information and maintain the flexibility that we need in order to provide a useful and dynamic service for our data users and providers. To this end we have written a three year Development Plan, spanning from 1st April 2006 to the 31st March 2009.
This plan will help us stay abreast of the multitude of issues that need consideration when developing an LRC. Consultation for this document has taken place through our Steering Group, the Sussex Committee for Biological Recording and the Trustees and Heads of Department of the Sussex Wildlife Trust.
We would be very pleased to receive any feedback.
[SxBRC Development Plan PDF Download] (1MB)
28 March 2006
The new 2005-06 edition of Adastra, our annual review of wildlife recording in Sussex, is now available for download from our publications page. In addition to the usual species group reviews, things to watch out for in this edition are: “An introduction to the marine algal flora of Sussex”, “The value of insect records in site assessment and management plans” and a report on “Habitat creation at Rye Harbour”.
Download Adastra 2005 [PDF – 1.1MB]