For anyone contemplating creating or restoring a #wildflower #meadow on public or private land I cant recommend this guide created by our own #NBDC enough. It deals with local conditions and takes into account almost every consideration. Its top class imho👍
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📌Thank you to Karin Dubsky from @coastwatch-ire.bsky.social for guiding us to seagrass in Sandycove, and to Muriel Rumball and the crew from #INSS for hosting us.
📌Special thanks to Martina O’Brien from DLR County Council and Dave Wall from #NBDC.
📌Event was part of the #NationalHeritageWeek2025

Calling all ladybird spotters: help fill in the picture on these charismatic little bugs Data on the species in the Republic is spotty, but that’s about to change

Have you seen a ladybird in Ireland? Why not add to the body of knowledge on these charismatic beetles?

#NatureConservation #NBDC

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Nature Trail: IVC - A new Irish vegetation classification system for all communities of wild plants Acronyms, the initial letters of words, are becoming so increasingly common that it is now standard practice for publications to have a glossary or an appendix listing all of the many acronyms they us...

Our Philip getting some recognition for the immense amount of work he put in to develop the IVC.

'Nature Trail: IVC - A new Irish vegetation classification system for all communities of wild plants'

#IVC #IrishVegetationClassification #NBDC #NatureConservation

Two new publications from the National Biodiversity Data Centre - National Biodiversity Data Centre Dr Liam Lysaght, Chief Executive Officer of the National Biodiversity Data Centre was delighted to welcome Christopher O’Sullivan T.D. Minister of State for

Two new publications from the National Biodiversity Data Centre - 'Handbook for the Irish Vegetation Classification' and 'An Atlas of Butterflies in Ireland 2010-2021'

#NatureConservation #IVC #NBDC #NPWS

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Spent the day with the #NBDC in Knocksink Wood in Wicklow, learning about solitary bees and enjoying the smell of wild garlic as we walked

#biodiversity #entomology #solitarybees #miningbee #botany

The Native BioData Consortium The Native BioData Consortium (NBDC) is the first 501(c)(3) nonprofit research institute led by Indigenous scientists and tribal members in the United States. As a biorepository (or “biobank”), we ens...

The Native BioData Consortium #NBDC is comprised of #Indigenous scientific and bioethics experts. The samples will be stored on sovereign #NativeAmerican land, on the #CheyenneRiverSiouxTribe , which will provide additional protections for the participants’ samples from exploitation.

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Does anyone know if the National Biodiversity Data Centre phone app is going to make a reappearance any time soon?

#NatureRecording #NBDC

‘Not a free-for-all’: Indigenous communities want limits on how their data are shared Push for “data sovereignty” could reshape how scientists share information

"Accessible’ means somebody can access it but you are still allowed to regulate it"
#CARE #idigenousknowledge #NBDC #opendata
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Publications – National Biodiversity Data Centre

The latest issue of Biodiversity Ireland from the National Biodiversity Data Centre is now available. It includes the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group’s first validated record of the North Atlantic Right Whale.

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#BiologicalRecording #NBDC #BiodiversityIreland