Wildlife conservation’s heroes and heroines – announcing the Finalists of the NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording 2024

We’re happy to insist the 35 folks and organisations who possess been short-listed as Finalists of the NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording 2024. The winners would per chance be launched on Thursday 21 November, at the NBN Conference in Liverpool.

This three hundred and sixty five days there are two contemporary categories of awards – the NBN Lifetime Success Award and the NBN Verifier’s Award – and we possess been jubilant to win 60 nominations spanning all seven Award categories:

• NBN Lifetime Success Award 2024
• NBN Verifier’s Award 2024
• NBN Award for Terrestrial Wildlife Recording 2024
• NBN Award for Marine Wildlife Recording 2024
• NBN Community Award 2024
• NBN Newcomer Award 2024
• NBN Young Particular person’s Award 2024 (originate to folks primitive 11-20)

Lisa Chilton, CEO of the NBN Belief, says:

“We are able to’t overstate the importance of the work that natural world recorders and verifiers impact! Monitoring how utterly different species are faring in utterly different ingredients of the country is well-known to our conservation efforts and reversing biodiversity loss.

“Many natural world recorders and verifiers are unpaid volunteers, who give their time and skills freely, and also inspire others to salvage entangled. The NBN Awards are our way of announcing a coronary heart-felt thank you to the ‘unsung-heroes’ of the UK’s natural world recording neighborhood.

“We also thank the these that took the pains to appoint these fabulous folks and natural world groups for the utterly different NBN Awards – without these nominators, we’d derive no longer possess any awards. At closing, a astronomical thank you to our Award Sponsors – whose reinforce is vastly appreciated.”

Finalists of the NBN Lifetime Success Award 2024

• Lin Baldock (from Dorset, England)
• Charlotte Bolton (from Dorset, England)
• Graham Calow (from Leicestershire, England)
• Stuart Crofts (from South Yorkshire, England)
• Roger Morris (from Surrey, England) and Stuart Ball (from Northamptonshire, England)

Finalists of the NBN Verifier’s Award 2024

• Impress Cubitt (from West Lothian, Scotland)
• Alyson Freeman (from Lincolnshire, England)
• Stuart Roberts (from Wiltshire, England) and Matt Smith (from Berkshire, England)
• Barry Warrington (from East Yorkshire, England)

Finalists of the NBN Award for Terrestrial Wildlife Recording 2024

• Katty Baird (from East Lothian, Scotland)
• Dave Bentley (from Bigger Manchester, England)
• Rebecca Lewis (from Midlothian, Scotland)
• Paul Taylor (from Ceredigion, Wales)
• Lisa Williams (from Staffordshire, England)

Finalists of the NBN Award for Marine Wildlife Recording 2024

• Lin Baldock (from Dorset, England)
• Charlotte Bolton (from Dorset, England)
• Nic Coombey (from Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland)
• Steven Farquhar (from County Antrim, Northern Ireland)
• Diane Westwood (from Norfolk, England)

Finalists of the NBN Community Award 2024

• Amphibian and Reptile Groups of UK (ARG UK) – UK-huge
• Heartwood Forest natural world monitoring neighborhood – from Hertfordshire, England
• MammalWeb – UK-huge
• Penwith Wildlife Recorders’ Community (PWRG) – from Cornwall, England
• Trent Valley Wildlife Recording Community – from Staffordshire, England

Finalists of the NBN Newcomer Award 2024

• Karen Fry (from Nottinghamshire, England)
• Charlotte Shenkin (from Jersey, Channel Islands)
• Margaret Stevens (from Leicestershire, England)
• Helen Whitehead (from West Midlands, England)
• Kayleigh Woodhouse (from Nottinghamshire, England)

Finalists of the NBN Young Particular person’s Award 2024 (originate to folks primitive 11-20)

• Henry Colnet (13 years outmoded, from Suffolk, England)
• Holly Doherty (19 years outmoded, from Inverness, Scotland)
• Max Loraine (14 years outmoded, from Midlothian, Scotland)
• Aoife (18 years outmoded, from County Down, Northern Ireland)
• Niamh (16 years outmoded, from County Down, Northern Ireland)
• Ben Rumsby (18 years outmoded, from Essex, England)

Sponsors of the NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording 2024

This three hundred and sixty five days we are indebted to seven organisations for their generous reinforce:

1. RSPB for sponsoring prizes for the NBN Lifetime Success Award and for the NBN Verifier’s Award.
2. Opticron for sponsoring prizes for the NBN Young Particular person’s Award and for the NBN Newcomer Award.
3. Habitat Reduction for sponsoring prizes for the NBN Award for Marine Wildlife Recording, the NBN Award for Terrestrial Wildlife Recording and the NBN Community Award.
4. Discipline Studies Council for sponsoring the prize in the NBN Community Award.
5. William Collins for sponsoring prizes for the NBN Young Particular person’s Award, the NBN Newcomer Award, the NBN Award for Marine Wildlife Recording and for the NBN Award for Terrestrial Wildlife Recording.
6. British Wildlife magazine for sponsoring a prize for the NBN Newcomer Award.
7. Pure Ancient previous E book Service (NHBS)
   for sponsoring a prize for the NBN Young Particular person’s Award. /Ends.

For more information, for images and to situation up interviews with particular particular person NBN Award Finalists please contact Purba Choudhury, NBN Belief Communications Officer, by means of: p.choudhury@nbn.org.uk or on: 0115-850 0172.

Notes to Editors:

1. National Biodiversity Community Belief

We’re a slight charity with a astronomical thought – to derive knowledge work for nature. For more than 20 years we’ve been making natural world knowledge accessible, to reinforce greater choices about the natural world and to glue of us with nature.

We situation up the NBN Atlas, the UK’s ideal repository of publicly on hand biodiversity knowledge – holding over 300 million information of 50,000 plus species – from ladybirds, crimson squirrels and toads thru to rare lichen, fungi and endangered bugs.

We also situation up iNaturalistUK, as well to supporting the National Biodiversity Community – the UK’s ideal partnership for nature. It is miles a collaboration of around 200 organisations committed to sharing UK natural world knowledge and making it without ache on hand – the utilization of the NBN Atlas: nbnatlas.org

Members of the National Biodiversity Community consist of some smartly-identified organisations, similar to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), the National Belief, Butterfly Conservation and the Woodland Belief, as well to lesser-identified groups similar to Longhorn Beetle Recording Diagram, Riverfly Partnership and Outer Hebrides Recording Community, to title simply about a.

The one thing that unites everyone desirous about the Community is their desire for excessive-quality natural world knowledge to derive a tough proof nefarious for environmental resolution-making. Knowledge suppliers portion their biodiversity knowledge by means of the NBN Atlas: nbnatlas.org

2.  By “natural world recording” we mean the surveying of natural world in a single’s native space and submitting information of these sightings to a local or nationwide natural world organisation or linked app.

3.  Background of the NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording

The National Biodiversity Community Belief situation up this nationwide award plot in 2015, in partnership with the Biological Records Centre and the National Forum for Biological Recording. It modified into once called the UK Awards for Biological Recording and Information Sharing and has developed into the NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording that we possess now this day.