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We would like to invite you to this one-day conference on Embedding Citizen Science into Wildlife Conservation Management Bournemouth University, Monday 21st March 2016, 9.00-16.30 To view the full programme and book, please go to Eventbrite booking<http://bit.ly/citsci_in_mngt> or http://bit.ly/citsci_in_mngt or see the attached programme. <http://bit.ly/citsci_in_mngt> This one-day conference is organized by the National Trust and Bournemouth University and will consist of talks and associated workshops and posters presented by a range of organisations including Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (ARC), Bournemouth University (BU), Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH), Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT), Footprint Ecology (FE), Field Studies Council (FSC), National Trust (NT) and Natural England (NE). The following four key steps to enabling Citizen Science to impact positively on wildlife conservation management will be explored by presenters and participants: 1) Engaging and recruiting motivated volunteers 2) Effective skills training 3) Appropriate data recording and management method 4) Linking data collection with conservation management planning The National Trust's Cyril Diver project will be presented as a case study as well as a range of other citizen science projects led by public and voluntary-sector organisations. This conference is geared to conservation practitioners and other stakeholders in citizen science and is particularly relevant to public and voluntary-sector organisations involved in (a) harnessing the skills and time of volunteer naturalists in the surveillance and monitoring of biodiversity and (b) site-based nature conservation management. There is a £20 fee to cover conference organisation costs. A buffet lunch and tea/coffee breaks are included in this cost. To view the full programme and book, please go to Eventbrite booking<http://bit.ly/citsci_in_mngt> or http://bit.ly/citsci_in_mngt We hope to see you there! David Brown, National Trust, and Anita Diaz, Bournemouth University Best wishes, Gitte Gitte Kragh PhD Candidate Department of Life & Environmental Sciences Faculty of Science and Technology Bournemouth University Christchurch House, C232, Talbot Campus Fern Barrow, Poole, Dorset, BH12 5BB Tel: +44 (0) 7922 876848 British Ecological Society Citizen Science SIG: https://www.linkedin.com/grp/home?gid=7440480
