The National Biodiversity Data Centre invites quotes from plastic molding/manufacturing companies to supply the following: The National Biodiversity Data Centre is seeking to procure fabricated parts for 250 moth traps. This will consist of: 250 x moulded lids with built-in funnel, approx. 380 mm diameter 750 x clear polycarbonate (or similar material) vanes, approx. 110 ..read more

The National Biodiversity Data Centre invites quotes from accountancy practices to undertake the annual audit on behalf of the company. The main tasks include: Undertake the annual audit and provide statutory accounts, The computation and filing of corporation tax returns, and The submission of relevant Company Registration Office accounts filing. The closing date for receipt ..read more

The National Biodiversity Data Centre invites quotes from accountancy practices to provide services around accounts and payroll. The Services include: Accounts receivable Accounts payable Bank management Management accounts Payroll, and other ad hoc tasks.   The contract will be for one year duration, running from 1st April 2025 to 31st March 2026, with the potential ..read more

Insects encompass some of our most familiar and well recorded species. Many people will be familiar with the Peacock butterfly (Inachis io) or the 7-spot Ladybird (Coccinella septempunctata), which are bold and conspicuous insects that are recorded in their hundreds across Ireland each year. But of the 11,000 different insect species that are known in ..read more

Blessington, Wicklow, Ireland – 12 July 2024 – Citizen scientist and entomologist Brian Murray, in collaboration with the National Biodiversity Data Centre (NBDC), is excited to announce that a new, very large species of harvestman, Leiobunum species A (Leiobunum sp. A), has been formally identified as a resident of Ireland for the first time. Harvestmen ..read more

We have seen some great recording activity in 2024, particularly considering how changeable and sometimes unsuitable the weather has been for recording of many taxonomic groups and just earlier in this week we received our 100,000th record through Ireland’s Citizen Science Portal. The 100,000th record was submitted by Tina Aughney and was for Clouded Border ..read more

We are pleased to release the summer 2024 issue of Biodiversity Ireland. Biodiversity Ireland provides an update on some of the work of the National Biodiversity Data Centre and highlights recording and biodiversity survey work of some of our partners. Features in this issue include the Centre’s five-year Strategic Plan, the establishment of a new Invasive Alien Species within the Centre to help support the EU Invasive Species Regulations, work completed to create a new database on Ireland’s ants, and an update on the biodiversity recording activity of the recorder network in 2023 ..read more

The National Biodiversity Data Centre has built and manages an extensive biodiversity digital infrastructure to meet many of the national biodiversity data management needs. This infrastructure is offered as a shared-service to partner organisations to assist their biodiversity data management needs and to facilitate data mobilisation. This has resulted in a national biodiversity database which at the end of 2023 contains more than six million species occurrence records of almost 18,000 species.  The Centre also manages some monitoring schemes to track how biodiversity is changing. Many o ..read more

The National Biodiversity Data Centre is based at Beechfield House, SETU West Campus, Carriganore, Co. Waterford. It currently has a staff complement of 13 led by the Chief Executive Officer, Dr Liam Lysaght, but it is currently recruiting staff so it will have a staff of 20 by the end of 2024. The National Biodiversity Data Centre operates a hybrid working policy with staff based in Waterford and working remotely. Beechfield House provides office space, a seminar room, reference library and canteen facilities, and serves as the contact point for the public. To manage the Centre’s office-based ..read more

The National Biodiversity Data Centre has built and manages an extensive biodiversity digital infrastructure to meet many of the national biodiversity data management needs. This infrastructure is offered as a shared service to partner organisations to assist their biodiversity data management needs and to facilitate data mobilisation. This has resulted in a national biodiversity database which at the end of 2023 contains more than six million species occurrence records of almost 18,000 species. Despite the large number of datasets with occurrence data, there is still significant gaps in our k ..read more