I am looking for a secondhand copy of 'Which Bat is it? A guide to bat identification in Great Britain and Ireland' by R.E. Stebbings. Published in 1986 for £1, it is now out-of-print and not in any secondhand bookshops. A County Council executive committee has approved plans to continue to provide financial support for the Suffolk Biological Record Centre.
Six of the seven local authorities in Suffolk have agreed to support the centre to the tune of £2000 for the next financial year.
Suffolk County Council also announced that an agreement with English Nature will inject £60,000 into SBRC's work over the next two and a half years. An advertisement for an assistant to help run the centre has already been placed. Two years ago the SBRC was at risk of closure - the result of a cost-cutting review by Ipswich Borough Council, the authority then responsible for the centre's budget. Following the cuts Suffolk County Council stepped in to save the threatened centre.
The centre, which was originally set up by the Suffolk Naturalists Society has operated for more than 25 years and recorded the distribution of some million plants and animals in the county : records which are essential for monitoring key species and noting population change.
Packed full of information about the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the Unit Area (which includes Shotley and the southern edge of the Stour estuary) the new Suffolk Coast and Heaths website is designed to act as an information point both for the Suffolk Coast and Heaths community and the wider public. It can be found at
www.suffolkcoastandheaths.org
Field meetings recommenced with the recorders visit to Great Martins Wood, Bentley on Saturday 26th May. The programme for 2002 is in preparation and will be printed in the new year.
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Members' evening will be held at our usual venue the Forte Posthouse Hotel (now re-named the Holiday Inn), Copdock, Ipswich (near Tescos on the A1214; Grid reference TM130432) at 7.30pm.
The Society's members' evening has become a very popular event. On this occasion the evening will commence with an illustrated talk 'Wildlife in the Pyrenees' given by Rob Macklin, RSBP Site Manager at North Warren and Aldringham Walks. Rob, who has recently been re-elected to SNS Council, is a former warden at Minsmere and is well-known for his wide-ranging interests and expertise in natural history.
After refreshments the second part of the evening will be devoted to Jon Nicholls' ever popular natural history quiz.
An additional attraction, The Millennium Atlas of Suffolk Butterflies, the Society's most recent publication (November 2001) will be on sale at the bookstall.
Without doubt this year's annual SNS conference was another resounding success. Future Flora attracted a full house of 400 delegates who packed into the Ipswich School Conference Centre to hear six talented specialists speaking on various aspects of British botany. It was a pleasure to be able to welcome people from so many parts of Britain as well as from overseas : Liverpool, the Isle of Wight, Wales, France and Sweden spring to mind. The SNS has every reason to be proud that this annual event has become truly international.
This is the first time the Society's annual conference has been devoted entirely to botany and we are grateful for the support given by the Botanical Society of the British Isles and Plantlife. We are also indebted to the Suffolk Wildlife Trust, British Wildlife and Suffolk County Council for the help they have given.
The conference exhibition, with its central display of SNS recording activities and publications attracted a great deal of interest, and we are pleased to report that sales of the Society's publications reached a total of £451. In addition 14 new members were recruited.
As always, these events require a great deal of organisation and help from many people. Council thanks all those who contributed to making the conference such an enjoyable and interesting occasion. In particular, thanks are due to Martin Sanford, who organised the excellent programme; Colin Hawes who again gathered together a willing team of helpers; Andy Gregory and Peter Taylor for, as ever, the first class facilities provided by Ipswich School; Brian Ruscoe of the Red Cross, and the team of Council and SNS members - Adrian Chalkley, Joan Hardingham, Ann Hawes, David Lampard, Paul Lee, Gary Lowe, Rosemary and Tony Milner, Rob Parker, Neil Sherman, Bob Stebbings, Richard Stewart and Janet Watchman - who made sure that everything ran smoothly on the day.
A flavour of the day's proceedings is given in Rob Parker's Conference 2001 report (see the articles button above).
The first Suffolk Mammal Conference is to be held at Henley Community Centre on the 11th May 2002. The conference 'Beyond surveying - approaches to management' will cover topics on dormice, water vole, otter, hedgehogs, deer and bats and will look at the management of and for these species. The event is sponsored by Anglia Water, English Nature and the Environment Agency.
For further information and a booking form contact Sarah Norman, Anglian Otters and Rivers Project, Suffolk Wildlife Trust, Brooke House, Ashbocking, Ipswich, IP6 9JY. Tel: 01473 890089
If you have any records of mammals in Suffolk which you have not yet submitted to SBRC, then please ensure that they are sent in by 1st January 2002. If you need a recording form then please contact Martin Sandford via the Ipswich museum.. We are hoping that a Mammal Atlas for Suffolk will produced sometime in 2002. Simone Bullion, Mammal Recorder.
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I am willing to pay £8 for a copy in reasonable condition, or, if you prefer, a £12 donation to Suffolk Naturalists' Society.
Nick Sibbett, 3 Salter Close, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP32 7EQ
01284 762218 ext 208 office hours, 01284 723847 home.
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