Wales

The State of Nature report 2019 has been published. Find out more here or download the SoN summary for Wales.

Welsh Officer

The  Welsh Officer post is currently vacant.

Please email Jim McIntosh with any enquiries.

The Wales Officer Twitter account @BSBICymru is currently being managed by a volunteer, Barbara Brown.

The Wales Officer Blog: https://bsbicymru.blogspot.com will be updated by Barbara and other guest editors.

 

Welsh AGM 2018 & 2019

Every year the Committee for Wales organises a meeting around the Welsh AGM. In 2019, the Welsh AGM was held in Llanelli, enjoyed great weather and took in a range of interesting sites. Head over to the Welsh AGM page to find out what you missed! The 2020 AGM in Bangor has been postponed owing to the Covid-19 epidemic.

Meetings 2019

As well as many local and one-day field meetings, there are now two Welsh meetings which are annual fixtures:

The Glynhir Recording Week is held in Carmarthenshire (VC44). Read a report from it here.

The Caerdeon Recording Weekend is held in Merionethshire (VC48). Read a report here.

Rare Plant Registers

In March 2017 Wales celebrated the completion of a full set of Rare Plant Registers (RPRs).

Begun in Ceredigion (VC46) in 1978, most of the Rare Plant Registers for Wales and now available on line.

The most recent additions are the 2020 Flintshire Rare Plant Register and the 2020 Radnorshire Rare Plant Register including records collected as part of Atlas 2020 fieldwork.

Training days

Training events planned this year around the National Plant Monitoring Survey have been cancelled owing to the Covid-19 epidemic.

Welsh Bulletin

*NEW* The complete run of the BSBI Welsh Bulletin, current and back issues, is now available to download free of charge: go to the bottom of this page.

The Bulletin is produced twice a year and contains articles and news items of interest and importance to Wales.

Welsh members of the BSBI automatically receive a copy of the BSBI Welsh Bulletin. Back issues are available on request - please contact either Sally Whyman or Katherine Slade.

News, articles and accompanying photographs for the Welsh Bulletin are very welcome. The editors are Richard Pryce, Katherine Slade, Sally Whyman.

Records for publication in the Welsh Bulletin should be submitted using the form below (Excel format).

Record submission form.

PDF downloads of Welsh Bulletin

Back issues of Welsh Bulletin

Bulletins from 2010 to 1964 can now be found in the Welsh bulletin archive

We hope that moving back issues to a new archive will make this page quicker to load.