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History
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EcoRecord has been established as a joint venture between the clients and the operators. As such, it is a unique partnership between local and central government and the voluntary sector.
The aims of the project are to bring together in a highly accessibly computerised database all the available information on sites, habitats and species within the Black Country and Birmingham, and to provide analysis and interpretation of that information. With the increasing awareness of environmental issues has come the need for authoritative, up-to-date and accessible information to inform debate and discover and monitor trends.
The two year development phase of the project funded by English Nature and the local authority partners (1991-1993) saw the establishment from nothing - one of the most sophisticated ecological information systems in the U.K. Since September 1993 EcoRecord has been wholly financed by the local authorities under a service level agreement detailing the development of the project, its objectives and services available.
EcoRecord is intimately involved in the National Biodiversity Network's Linking Local Records Centres Project, producing Policies and Procedures for operating an efficient LRC.
© EcoRecord
2000
Last updated 18 January 2000
EcoRecord is operated by the Wildlife Trust for
Birmingham and the Black Country and JDT (Mott-MacDonald)
on behalf of Birmingham City Council and the Metropolitan
Boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton.