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The state of nature report

Swarm Partners — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 19:24:52 +0000

For the first time ever, the UK's wildlife organisations joined forces to undertake a health check of nature in the UK and its Overseas Territories. The report was called the State of Nature and it inspired the coming together of the Nature Intelligence Unit. You can read the report below.

Scoping out a partnership

Swarm Partners — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 19:24:03 +0000

In July 2015, a collective of conservationists met to explore whether public participation in scientific recording could:

1. Help deepen nature connection in the public by giving them more ownership in both the development of the overall story and the conclusions/actions emerging from it

2. Help to increase breadth and depth of the data recorded in the future beyond the 5% of species currently captured and reported

You can read about what happened at this scoping workshop, in the 25 slide executive summary below. Or you can read the full version here (you might want to stick the kettle on first – it's 91 slides).

Gather – Executive Summary from Swarm

Starting out at Sutton House

Swarm Partners — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 19:20:00 +0000

Here's a photo we nicked from Google. It's the Breaker's Yard at the National Trust's Sutton House in Hackney. Awesome, isn't it? We visited in October last year when the sky was less blue and the leaves less green but the setting no less beautiful.

This is where the Nature Intelligence Unit was born.