BIS 10th Anniversary Recorders Forum 2011 - Minister thanks recorders
BIS held its 10th Anniversary Recorders Forum on the 17th March 2011.We were fortunate in that Jane Davidson, WAG Minister for the Environment, Sustainability & Housing, agreed to speak on the ‘Living Wales - a new framework for our environment, our countryside and our seas’ consultation and the ecosystems approach to sustainable development'. You can see articles on the proceedings in the new BIS Recorders newsletter May 2011.
In particular she referred to the roles of LRC's and wildlife recorders, ‘A Living Wales highlights the need for data, information, surveillance and monitoring. Local Record Centres will have a central role to play in stimulating data collection, helping recorders to develop their skills and collating and disseminating data…….. I would now like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the importance of the role of recorders, volunteers and those other experts who rarely get a thank you. I’d like to thank you now. Without your efforts we would not know the size of the challenge we face. We would be unable to measure what we have achieved and we would be far behind our current beginnings of understanding the complexity and importance of the nature around us: thank you.’
