1861-2011

Celebrating 150 years of recording the ever-changing flora and fauna of Yorkshire

YNU Biological Records Officer 

At the Annual General Meeting at Bingley, we were pleased to announce the appointment of Mrs Hannah Droop on a part-time contract sponsored by the YNU and YHEDN Trust as a Biological Records Officer for naturalists in Yorkshire.

Recording Orthoptera and Herptiles

To give the project a focus it has been agreed that the project will initially concentrate on the recording of bush crickets, grasshoppers and earwigs together with amphibians and reptiles.

This project will also support national recording schemes for Orthoptera by the BRC and Herpetiles by the H.C. Trust.

Hannah is keen to hear from Societies and members of the YNU, and indeed anybody from the wider biodiversity recording community, about records they hold, especially records from the last ten years. She would also be interested to hear from anyone with data that may be mapped to a site boundary rather than the larger 1km, tetrad or 10km data kept by national societies.

If you can help, Hannah is available on Mondays and Tuesdays at the North East Yorkshire Ecological Data Centre.

Contact: Hannah Droop, Biological Records Officer, c/o NEYEDC St William’s College, 5 College Street, York, YO1 7JF

Telephone: 01904 641631 Email: records.officer@ynu.org.uk 

Much of the YNU's activity involves recording wildlife. The records obtained are sent to the North and East Yorkshire Ecological Data Centre (NEYEDC) and then passed to the National Biodiversity Network via a database portal known as the Gateway. Anyone who does any recording should look at their website and information leaflets, and sign up to their informative newsletter.

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