Joy of Recording

Joy of Recording

Nathalie Mahieu When I was a kid and teenager, I spent a lot of time looking for fossils, fungi and berries. It didn’t occur to me at the time to try and put a label on everything, beyond whether it was useful or edible. It was much later that I became interested in...
Joy of Recording: fourteen years of data

Joy of Recording: fourteen years of data

Tony Wileman My desire for identifying wildlife started at a very young age, sometime between five and seven, when it was usual for me to be found crawling under school huts. A lot of my childhood was spent crawling around looking at invertebrates in my local park in...
Joy of Recording

Joy of Recording

Amelia Stodel In the late 1980s, I briefly worked for the Essex Wildlife Trust as a Phase 1 Habitat Surveyor recording the plants and topography throughout the county. A couple of decades down the line, you would find me working in the Western Cape, South Africa,...