BLS Lichen Historic Database

Lead organisation: British Lichen Society (Non-governmental)

Over the past 50 years BLS members have collected nearly 1.5 million lichen records, information that can be used to support lichen research and conservation in many ways

Policy uptake explanation

One of the aims of the project is assessing the rarity and threat status of each species, published as the Conservation Evaluation of British Lichens (Woods & Coppins 2003, 2012) and also resulting in the selection of species for the Biodiversity Action Plan and for legal protection under schedule 8 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981).

Additional information

Source Inventory of environmental citizen science projects
Web site http://www.britishlichensociety.org.uk/recording-mapping/bls-databases
Contact point mailto:secretary@britishlichensociety.org.uk
Start/end date 1963 - Unknown
Still active? Yes

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