Our Director, Simon, attended @BritishEcolSoc National Environment Monitoring Conference this week - a very intense and informative day where lots of discussions were had & contacts made! 📸: Tom August, CEH, with his AI insect trap, and one of the conference talks.

Thank you to all who attended our conference this past weekend! We had a brilliant day with fantastic talks on 'the big questions' & nature recovery, discussion, and the chance to catch up with networks new & old. Find a summary of the day on our website:

The penultimate blog in our #YorkshireIn100Species series is now published! https://t.co/GxTbCyfa34 Paul Hankin, ex-farm manager and birder, introduces us to one of our most celebrated birds, the Skylark.🪶

If you're a community group looking to get involved, we would also love to hear from you! 👥🌿Contact lucy.baldwin@neyedc.co.uk for more information #CityNatureChallenge #HullCNC2026

We had a great first meeting last week of our City Nature Challenge working group, planning for the 2026 event which will run from 24th - 27th April in Hull. If you're a recorder in the area, we'd love if you could download @inaturalist & join our project:

We still have a few tickets left for our conference this Sunday 7th Dec at York Hospitium - 'Networks for Nature: A conference celebrating 25 years of NEYEDC'. Tickets are on sale until Wednesday this week at https://t.co/zwxYC0wpw1, where you can also find the full programme 💬

We're in the final stretch! Instalment #98 in our #YorkshireIn100Species series features one of our iconic farmland birds, the Corn Bunting. Our contributor Colin Slator, has spent many years as a countryside ranger & founded High Batts Nature Reserve: https://t.co/WGGgepZuYq 🪶

For our #MonadOfTheMonth for November we're visiting SE6637 near Ripon, North Yorkshire, where we only have 6 records currently in our database 📍 https://t.co/Ix0fdgyTRI

We had a brilliant day yesterday at @NBNTrust Conference in Bristol at the fantastic SS Great Britain venue. Our very own Simon spoke on behalf of @_NFBR & we were treated to a variety of interesting talks from across the biodiversity data network (plus a resident artist!) 🗨️

Tickets for our conference on 7th December are still available! Join us at York Hospitium for 'Networks for Nature: a conference celebrating 25 years of NEYEDC'. Tickets can be purchased from the following link, which also shows the full programme: https://t.co/zwxYC0vRGt

Tickets are now on sale for our conference, 'Networks for Nature', which will be held on Sunday 7th December at York Hospitium 🎉 We'd love for you to join us - purchase your tickets here: https://t.co/zwxYC0vRGt!

We are returning once again to Hull in 2026 for the City Nature Challenge! Join us & make observations throughout the city between 24th April - 27th April 2026 using @inaturalist. Our project is already up and running, which you can join here for updates:

Tickets for our conference 'Networks for Nature: A conference celebrating 25 years of NEYEDC' will be on sale this coming Friday. Tickets can be purchased via our website once general sale begins. We would love to see you there!

Our (slightly late!) #MonadOfTheMonth for October is now published on our website: https://t.co/OwMRM4NEqO This month, our monad is TA0286, just outside of Scarborough, which includes part of YWT Harland Mount 📍

Our EDO Hannah discovered Stigmella aceris, a moth first recorded in Yorkshire in 2021, on Maple close to our offices this week. This species has rapidly become common around the York area over the last few years, having moved north: https://t.co/VnDS1ADhcr Keep your eyes peeled!

It's #TrusteesWeek! We meet with our board of trustees four times a year and appreciate their valuable input into all aspects of NEYEDC operations and work. Thank you trustees! 📸: NEYEDC team and trustees, 2024.

We have another of our fantastic native reptiles featured for entry #96 in our #YorkshireIn100Species project - the Slow Worm, brought to us by East Riding of Yorkshire Council's Sustainable Environment Manager, John Pemberton: https://t.co/tLnqVpZmP1 🦎

On Saturday 15th November the YWT, Yorkshire Naturalists' Union & Sorby Natural History Society are hosting a joint event for members on Soliderfly ID. Click through to purchase a ticket! https://t.co/UBzkEWyFD3 @ynuorg @YWTPottericCarr

Grassland fungi season is finally in full swing and so are we, with both events and surveys. Once again we are finding new sites with rare and beautiful fungi, including some really special discoveries such as the Sunset Waxcap - for which only a handful of records exist! 🍄

The final countdown has begun! This week we're publishing #95 in our #YorkshireIn100Species series & our star species, brought to us by our very own Josie Monaghan, is the iconic Lady's-slipper Orchid: