NEYEDC improve and inform environmental decision making, conservation, land management and sustainable development in North and East Yorkshire through the collation, management, analysis and dissemination of biodiversity information.

Updates & Insights

Blogs, news, articles, and insights from NEYEDC

Updating the Ancient Woodland Inventory: Maps, tithes, and archives

Having finished the provisional mapping stage of the Ancient Woodland Inventory update – including finding thousands of potentially ancient woodlands to add to the inventory – we're now looking back in time at historical records, maps, and other archive material to gather evidence to inform our earlier work. Read on to find out more about these fascinating sources and how we're using them...

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NEYEDC – ‘an ALERC accredited LERC’

Have you seen the title of this blog piece on the footers of NEYEDC staff emails and wondered what it means, both for NEYEDC as a Local Environmental Records Centre, but also for you as one of our partners, clients or data providers?  This blog piece will hopefully go some way to answering that question, exploring our journey as an ALERC accredited LERC!

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Yorkshire Waxcaps and beyond: NEYEDC's grassland fungi projects

Stemming from the launch of our ‘Waxcaps: the hidden jewels in Yorkshire’s grasslands’ project in 2022 (otherwise known as Yorkshire Waxcaps), NEYEDC are now involved in several initiatives across North and East Yorkshire and beyond with the aim of identifying and mapping high-quality grassland fungi sites. Read on to find out more about this exciting suite of projects…

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