Forestry and Land Scotland and BDS pond building partnership
The BDS and Forestry and Land Scotland have teamed up in a new project to creat new habitat for Northern Damselfly, Azure Hawker and Northern Emerald – three species which are only found in Scotland in the UK. Read the full press release here. Image: Northern Emerald by Dave Ashton
Willow Emerald Watch 2022 Results
The BDS has been tracking the spread of the Willow Emerald Damselfly across England since 2015. You can help by keeping an eye out for adults in late summer-autumn, as well as their egg laying scars in the bark on bankside trees; learn how to take part here. Adrian Parr, project manager, summaries the results…
Call out to recorders in Monmouthshire – join the atlas project
The Monmouthshire 2030 dragonfly atlas project was set up in 2020 by the British Dragonfly Society, with the aim of producing Monmouthshire’s first dragonfly atlas in 2030. We hope that together we can cover every part of the county and record the dragonflies present, and from these records produce a comprehensive and detailed set of…
LIFEquake Project Launch
Funded by EU LIFE and supported by Welsh Government, LIFEquake is a five-year project which aims to restore peatland, quaking bogs and their wider supporting wetland landscapes to favourable conservation status. Quaking bogs’ – so called because when conditions are right the ground ‘quakes’ underfoot. Delivered in partnership by NRW, Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, Snowdonia…