WildPhotos 2009

The dates have been announced for WildPhotos 2009: Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th October 2009. Like 2008, it's at the Royal Geographic Society in London (an excellent venue.)

I always meant to write up WildPhotos 2008 as it was a fantastic two days with great speakers and superb images. However I never got around to it. Fortunately they did, and here's their writeup.

If you're a student, a professional wildlife photographer or just a wanna-be like me, you should go. Registration opens in June - you can get on their mailing list by visiting the site linked below.

• Wild Photos

Online UK Species Mapping

There's a fantastic resource for checking out species distribution in the UK, the National Biodiversity Network. It aggregates data from many different organisations to provide maps of species distribution throughout the UK. It's free to access and well worth a look - this map below was generated with their online tools, and shows the recent records of brown hare sightings in the UK. 

• The National Biodiversity Network

(For some reason I can't get this image into Blogger without it getting compressed massively. The original 30k PNG file looks perfect.)