Biodiversity Citizen Science Recording Activity January to June 2020
Biodiversity Citizen Science Recording Activity January to June 2020
There has been a significant surge in biological recording in 2020. During the first six months of this year over 97,000 records were entered through Ireland’s Citizen Science Portal. The below reports will allow you to observe the level of recording in each county in Ireland. These reports will be bi-annual and freely available in both English and Irish.
Some interesting figures:
Total records between January-June 2020 – 97,000+
Records for Protected Species – 14.844
Records for Threatened Species – 10,513
Records for Invasive Species – 2,281
Number of Recorders – 5,277
Overall County Report Documents can be found in both English and Irish through the below links:
County Reports by County (in English and Irish):
Ireland’s Citizen Science portal is available to be used by anyone; if you see a species of note and are sure of its identification, please submit the details to https://records.biodiversityireland.ie/ so that the observation can be added to our national biodiversity database. This will allow us to continue to build the knowledge base on what species we have in Ireland and help us to better understand how they are distributed.