TVERC Autumn Recorders' Conference 2025

• 09:30: Registration opens
• 10:00: Welcome
• 10:10: TVERC in Action (Steve Wilkes, TVERC Director & Ellen Lee, Biodiversity Data Manager)
• 10:30: A Connected Community Approach to Protecting and Restoring Local Landscapes (Catriona Bass, Long Mead Wildlife Site)
• 11:15: Break
• 11:45: Boosting Barn Owls in Wokingham Borough (Stuart Croft, Senior Ranger at Blackwater Valley Countryside Partnership & Finn Rothery, Countryside Ranger at Wokingham Borough Council’s Countryside Service)
• 12:10: Speed Update Session 1
• Lesley Dunlop, Oxfordshire Local Geological Sites (LGS) “Ferricrete churches in Berkshire – a recent building stone survey”
• Sofia Marlasca Aparicio, TVERC micro intern student “A short study of deadwood invertebrate records in the Thames Valley”
• Marcus Simmons, CAG Oxfordshire “Tips on using free mapping for species recording and NR planning / action”
• Jon Cole, BENHS “Insects of Dinton Pastures project”
• Dave Lowe, TVERC volunteer “Progress report on the nesting terns at Hinksey Lake”
• Judy Webb “Saving Orpine and Maiden Pink in Oxfordshire”
• 12:45: Lunch
• 13:45: Workshops
• Bob Cowley, Track & Sign Trainer for UK Mammal Society “20 Unmistakable Tracks & Signs – Kickstart your Mammal Recording in an Hour!”
• Marcus Simmons, CAG Oxfordshire & Julian Parfitt, Wild Wantage “Tips on using free mapping for species recording and NR planning / action”
• 15:00: Break
• 15:15: Speed Update Session 2
• Rob Curtis, TVERC Berkshire Biodiversity Officer “Berkshire Local Wildlife Sites Update”
• Cathy Notaras “Greenfield Site buildling developments”
• Des Sussex, Windsor Estate “Wildlife recording and monitoring across the Windsor Estate”
• 15:30: Recording Glow Worms (Robin Scagell, UK Glow Worm Survey)
• 16:15: Close (Steve Wilkes, TVERC Director)

Please note that the programme may be subject to change.