The 2020 BRC recording schemes meeting took place on 7 March at a new location and indeed a new country for this meeting! We are most grateful to the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh for hosting us, and in particular to Ashleigh Whiffin and her colleagues for providing lots of support to set up the event and help ensure that it ran smoothly on the day.

The winners of the NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording 2019 have been announced!

Evidence from records

Biological records, including those collated by the national recording schemes, are one of the strands of evidence used to generate the UK government's 'biodiversity indicators'. The latest indicators were published by Defra in early September, and further information on how the indicators are generated can be found on the JNCC website.