Welcome
Welcome to the website of the Biodiversity Information Service for Powys and Brecon Beacons National Park (BIS). Through this website we aim keep you up to date on the activities and work of BIS, including information on our services, data holdings, and eventually access to search the BIS database. It will act as local biological recording resource with news of local wildlife recording activities and linking to local and national recording websites. Please contact us if you have any comments or features you would like to see.
BIS Events 2010
Submitted by janeti on Tue, 22/06/2010 - 14:37.Please see the BIS May 2010 newsletter or our Events calendar for updates on all BIS training and field days over the summer.Contact Phil Ward at BIS for further details and booking
BIS Recorders Newsletter May 2010
Submitted by janeti on Tue, 22/06/2010 - 14:27.The latest BIS recorders newsletter is avaialble to download.
BIS database reaches one million records!
Submitted by janeti on Fri, 30/04/2010 - 16:33.The BIS Recorder 6 database has reached one million records today. The millionth record was a Bittern recorded by Andy King at Llangorse Lake in 2006. This is one of the 30,000 VC42 bird records that Phil Ward (BIS Biodiversity Recording Officer) has entered into the BIS database for a data mobilisation project funded by the Welsh Biodiversity Partnership.
Thanks to Andy King who has supplied not only all the VC 42 bird records but recently sent BIS VC42 (Brecknock) Butterflies for the last 6 years, which have enabled BIS to reach a million records.
CCW Data mobilised by BIS on NBN Gateway
Submitted by janeti on Tue, 09/02/2010 - 16:57.Over the last 8 years BIS has been working intermittently on a project to mobilise all the data held by CCW in the Powys and BBNP area. BIS finished that project in 2009 and now holds about 600,000 of those records in its database.
It is CCW policy that all publicly gathered data should be available at full resolution on NBN Gateway unless they are 'sensitive' species, which will be available publicly at a lower resolution. BIS is working with CCW to put the higher plant records onto NBN Gateway shortly and then all the records will be put up in 2010.
