The UK Biodiversity Research
Advisory Group
The UK’s National Biodiversity
Research Platform
Terms of
Reference
UK BRAG exists to:
- Identify, promote and facilitate
biodiversity research to support UK and individual country
biodiversity action plan commitments1;
- Coordinate effective and efficient UK
engagement with European biodiversity research issues, fulfilling
the role of a national biodiversity research platform;
- Contribute to effective biodiversity
research networking in the UK, leading to increased
interdisciplinary capacity;
- Support knowledge transfer activities in relation to
biodiversity research.
The UK BRAG Secretariat have produced a leaftet to summarise the
role, activities and work of UK BRAG; the leaflet can be downloaded
here. Requests for hard copies
should be made by email to Email plug-in to: undefined ukbrag@jncc.gov.uk
The next meeting of UK BRAG
will be: Thursday 2nd December 2010, at the Welsh
Environment Centre, Bangor
BES - UK BRAG
Workshop 8th September 2010, Leeds.
The Marine and
Coastal Access Act:
what does it mean
for biodiversity research?
The
British Ecological Society and UK BRAG will be collaborating at
the BES Annual meeting in Leeds, to hold an afternoon workshop
looking at the Marine and Coastal Access Act.
This workshop will introduce delegates to the
UK Marine and Coastal Access Act, and will discuss what the Act may
mean for the conservation of biodiversity in UK seas. The aim is to
facilitate discussion as to how the Act can be followed up to best
identify research needs and promote conservation of
biodiversity.
We will hear from four speakers, who will
then take part in a panel discussion forum.
Dr John Goold, Marine
Director at JNCC has kindly agreed to chair the workshop.
The other speakers
are;
Alison Reeves (Defra) ~ An introduction to
the Marine and Coastal Access act;
Christopher Davis (Natural England) ~ What does
the act mean for conservation?;
Michel Kaiser (University of Wales,
Bangor) ~ Managing conflicts and conflict
resolution;
Matthew Frost (Marine Biological Association) ~
Ecosystem services from the Marine and Coastal
Environment
More information about the speakers and the event can be found
here.
Latest BRAG news and events:
The British Council's Researcher Exchange Programme is aimed at supporting links between postdoctoral researchers in the UK and in other countries. The deadline for 2008 proposals is 2nd July.
Further information on the workshop looking at "Mechanisms for filling knowledge gaps for Biodiversity Action Plan species" and also on the BES-UK BRAG event on Ecosystem Services.
Defra have published a consultation on a new soil strategy. The deadline for responses is 28th June 2008.
Key External Links
Key external links relating to UK BRAG
can be found here
1 UK BRAG will not
address research needs associated with individual HAPs and SAPs,
instead focusing on cross-cutting, generic issues.