This week we will be representing GiGL at the Association of Local Environmental Records Centres (ALERC) annual conference. Each year the Association meet to discuss current topics and provide opportunity for exchange between Local Records Centres (LRCs) from around the Great Britain.
ALERC was set up in 2009 to provide a central voice for Britain’s LRCs. This year’s conference will focus on discussing the future directions of LRCs. This week’s image therefore includes a collection of photographs representing some of the current and future areas of work and challenges ahead for LRCs.
ALERC describes Local Records Centres (LRCs) as, “organisations that collect, collate, manage and disseminate information relating to the biodiversity and geodiversity of a region on a not-for-profit basis”. Though GiGL and other LRCs each have mutually exclusive regional remits and many local needs, we have closely aligned roles and responsibilities and can learn a lot from each other. Additionally, environmental considerations do not stop at county boundaries, so cooperation and understanding across borders is beneficial to achieving our shared goals.
Photos, clockwise from left: Nunhead railway cutting (c) Ian Yarham; Heathland restoration at Croham Hurst (c) Andrew Williams; Green roof of the London Zoo Komodo dragon house (c) Dusty Gedge; View of Mudchute Park (c) Edwin Van Ek; Birdwatchers at viewing screen, Southern Marsh, Erith (c) Karen Sutton; A water vole about to be released (c) Mike Waite; Roosting long-eared bats (c) Mike Waite; Nesting ring-necked parakeets (c) Susy Hogarth
October 2013
For more images of the week, see our archive