Manx Biological Recording Partnership
The Manx Biological Recording Partnership (MBRP) is all about wildlife species. The Partners jointly employ a Biological Records Manager who works one day a week to gather, collate and manage the data. Apart from the management of all this data, the Partners also encourage wildlife recording on the Island, run identification training courses and promote a knowledge of biodiversity on the Island, such as the annual Manx Wildlife Week. Data is regularly uploaded to the NBN Atlas Isle of Man, see below.
Please go here for further information about the MBRP and data flows.
NBN Atlas Isle of Man
The MBRP partnership jointly holds a large database with over a million (1,188,282 @ 04/02/2024) plant and animal records many of which are now on the NBN Atlas Isle of Man. This data is available to the public only at a low level of resolution. Records of species which are sensitive are also blurred.
Please go here for further information about the MBRP and data flows.
The Manx Nature Conservation Forum
The Manx Nature Conservation Forum provides the opportunity for local wildlife groups to lobby the Government Department that is responsible, on our behalf, for complying with the 1990 Wildlife Act, as well as the various conventions that the Island is signed up to, most importantly in this context, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and not least our designation as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.
Biosphere Isle of Man - Kemmyrk Seihll Bio Vannin
Biosphere reserves are 'learning places for sustainable development'. They are 'sites for testing interdisciplinary approaches to understanding and managing changes and interactions between social and ecological systems, including conflict prevention and management of biodiversity'.
About Biosphere Reserves
'The Man and the Biosphere Programme develops the basis within the natural and social sciences for the rational and sustainable use and conservation of the resources of the biosphere and for the improvement of the overall relationship between people and their environment. It predicts the consequences of today's actions on tomorrow's world ...'
About the Man and Biosphere Programme