New County Recorder for fungi
Tony Boniface has taken over from Geoffrey Kibby as County Recorder for fungi. Please send
records to Tony at 40 Pentland Avenue, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 4AZ Email:
jg.boni@btopenworld.com
Many thanks are due to Geoffrey for his many years of service to the Essex Field Club as recorder.
New County Recorder for marine life
Genevieve Broad Joan Elliot Visitor Centre, Abbotts Hall Farm, Great Wigborough,
Colchester, Essex C05 7RZ. Email: genevieveb@essexwt.org.uk, work tel - 01621 862981,
home tel - 01206 386489, mobile - 07803660347.
I moved to Essex earlier this year when 1 took up the post of Coordinator with the Essex
Biodiversity Project (EBP). The EBP works county-wide with 40 partners comprised of
government agencies, local councils, non-government organisations and business partners and
is hosted by the Essex Wildlife Trust at Abbott's Hall Farm, Great Wigborough. Since growing
up in Suffolk, I have travelled widely in the many years before returning to East Anglia. My
work in the field of wildlife conservation has included the ecology of snakes and aye-ayes at
Jersey Zoo; dolphin/fisheries interactions and ecotourism with the Marine Mammal Research
programme in Texas, the Bahamas and Belize; a study of the mammals and birds of the forests of
Sierra Leone, West Africa; and most recently, six years with Voluntary Service Overseas working
on sustainable fisheries and environmental education with coastal communities in the Philippines.
I gained a BSc in Ecology from the University of East Anglia, Norwich in 1991 and several years
later, obtained a Masters degree in Marine Environmental Protection from the University of
Wales, Bangor. I am looking forward to being an active member of the Essex Field Club and am
delighted to have been invited to become County Recorder for Marine Life.
MapMate records
If you are using MapMate for your biological records, then please send these on regular occasions
using the MapMate synchronisation process. If the County Recorder MapMate details are not
listed overleaf, please contact your County Recorder to find out whether they are able to receive
records in this form or you can send your MapMate records to Peter Harvey (cuk 2gv and email
grays@peterharvey.freeserve.co.uk), who will forward them on. Current details for County
Recorders who are definitely able to receive MapMate sync records are as follows, but at least 6
more are or will be using MapMate and may be able and willing to receive records in this way:
County MapMate Email Taxonomic groups
Recorder CUK
Tim Gardiner 3kb tg@writtle.ac.uk Orthoptera
Brian Goodey 6qa essexmoths@dsl.pipex.com Lepidoptera
Mark Hanson 6q4 mark@hanson2468.fsnet.co.uk Veteran Trees
Neil Harvey 2hb neilh@essexwt.org.uk Larger Brachycera
Peter Harvey 2gv grays@peterharvey.freeserve.co.uk Arachnida, Hymenoptera, Isopoda
David Scott 6qn david.scott76@bopenworld.com Reptiles and amphibians
Del Smith 6bc delsmith444@btinternet.com Diptera (except hoverflies and
larger Brachycera)
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