2008 Events: -
Workshop looking at "Mechanisms for filling knowledge gaps
for Biodiversity Action Plan Species; held December 2008.
Report now available.
On December 4th and 5th 2008, the
Biodiversity Reporting and Information Group (BRIG), in conjunction
with BRAG, jointly held a workshop. This invitation only event was
to identify the key research and one-off survey signposting actions
required to take forward the conservation of Biodiversity Action
Plan (BAP) priority species. Peak Ecology Ltd was
commissioned to organise the workshop, which was managed by a
Steering Group comprising Ant Maddock and Paul Rose (JNCC), in
conjunction with Margaret Palmer (Wildlife and Countryside Link),
and Deborah Long (Scottish Environment Link). This Steering Group
represented the BRIG/BRAG research sub-group. The workshop was
generously hosted by Natural England at their Peterborough offices.
All the experts invited worked extremely hard to a very tight
schedule to make the workshop the success that it was. The event
fulfilled its aims of bringing together experts to endorse
proposals for research and one-off survey actions for priority
species, and to produce suites of actions that can be taken forward
in a logical way. The report
of the workshop (462 Kb), should be read with the
accompanying
appendix (1.5 Mb).
Special session at the BES annual meeting, 4th September 2008,
London.
Following the success of UK BRAG's side event at the 2007 Annual
Meeting of the British Ecological Society, the Group once
again joined forces with the BES to organise a special session on
Ecosystem Services at the 2008 Annual Meeting at Imperial
College, London. The
programme can be downloaded, along with a report
of the special session. The speaker's slides can also be
viewed by going to the links below.
Dr Peter
Costigan (1.3 Mb)
Prof. Ed Maltby (1.9 Mb)
Prof. Roy
Haines-Young & Dr Marion Potschin (please note this is
a very large file of 9.3 Mb)
Dr Ruth
Swetnam (please note the large file size - 4.05 Mb)
Prof.Alastair
Fitter (2.15 Mb)
Prof. Andrew
Watkinson (3.1 Mb)
Dr. Dan
Osborn (0.3 Mb)
Dr. Peter Carey (3.0
Mb)
There was also a joint BES-BRAG event at the 2007 BES meeting in
Glasgow. A brief summary of this
event is available.