Data For Nature: Making biological records work for wildlife conservation

Data For Nature: Making biological records work for wildlife conservation
Natural History Live by Simon Rolph

Across the conservation movement, there is a growing consensus that we need to incorporate data and evidence into our work. But what does this actually look like? What are the key challenges? How can your biological records help us achieve this?

Through Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust’s Heritage Fund supported project ‘More Data for Nature’ we are working to improve how we collect and use ecological data about our reserves and surrounding area.

Simon Rolph provides an insight into how one Wildlife Trust is working to ensure that utilising ecological data is central to their work towards nature’s recovery.

Simon Rolph is the data and monitoring officer at Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust and has recently completed a PhD at the University of Sheffield working with demographic data of plants, he also happens to be a huge fan of ferns!

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