The Highland Biological Recording Group was established in 1986 to: - stimulate public interest and involvement in biological recording;
- collect data on Highland wildlife through surveys;
- publish the results in an annual newsletter and special publications;
- maintain a directory of local specialists and recorders;
- transfer data to and from National Recording Schemes.
| About HBRG: - Our geographical base is the Highland Council local authority area, which extends from the north coast of Scotland to Lochaber and the Cairngorms and includes Skye and the Small Isles.
- We have around 100 members, mostly from Highland.
- The membership has enormous expertise in most aspects of natural history.
- The annual subscription is currently £4.
- We are keen to engage both members and the public at large in our work.
- We meet twice a year and organise summer field visits.
- We publish
'Highland Naturalist' with results from the year's surveys every spring.
- In 1998 we published
'Highland Butterflies', and in 2006 'Highland
Bumblebees', atlases showing the distribution of these
insects in Highland and describing their ecology
- We have close links with Inverness Museum, and
we are working with SNH to update our records database
and make the data available on NBN Gateway.
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