Training Events

Good training underpins good biological records. CBDC delivers Recording for Beginners training and encourages recorders to attend species identification training in the County.

Fellfoot Forward Site Seeing Project

Thursday 20th January 2022.  7:00pm – 8:30pm  ( Online)

The Fellfoot Forward Landscape Partnership Scheme (LPS), led by the North Pennines AONB Partnership and funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, will be looking at the County Wildlife Sites in the scheme area.  These sites will play an important role in the Cumbria Local Nature Recovery Network as set out in the recent Environment Bill.  Join us for an informal session to find out more about the Fellfoot Forward Site LPS Seeing Project, County Wildlife Sites and how you can get involved.

Volunteer Surveyors wanted

As part of the Fellfoot Forward LPS Site Seeing project we are looking for volunteers who are interested in surveying County Wildlife Sites in the Fellfoot Forward project area. You will require at least reasonable vascular plant identification skills, although good ID skills in other taxa will be considered.

If you wish to find out more about this project please book on and attend this online introductory session.

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    Training Services

    CBDC offers a variety of training services. For more information, please contact our Recording Officer, Stuart.

    Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre

    The Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre at Tullie House Museum, Carlisle keeps wildlife information for the county of Cumbria. Tullie House Museum, in its role as a local natural history museum, has collected and disseminated records of wildlife in Cumbria since its inception in 1893. From the early 1990s the Museum has developed a computerised database of species and habitat records in Cumbria and has taken the central role in providing a local biodiversity data service for the county. This role was restyled as Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre (CBDC) in 2010, a not-for-profit organisation hosted by Tullie House Museum and advised by local stakeholders.
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