State of Nature 2016 Northern Ireland

The project focuses on the upper 127km2 of the Balinderry River catchment, with the main aim of reducing the amount of silt entering the river. [...] As a result, the red The Centre for Environmental Data and opportunity for people to access the squirrel is one of the most threatened Recording (CEDaR) was established at information they need to enhance mammals in the British Isles, and the Ulster Museum in January 1995 their knowledge and enjoyment of the Ring of Gullion is one of its last and acts as the Local Records Centre for the natural wo. [...] It works in partnership with the Northern Ireland Environment The establishment of the Environmental A local Red Squirrel Group was set up to Agency (NIEA), National Museums Recorders’ Group (ERG) has been crucial conserve and promote the population Northern Ireland (NMNI) and the local to the development of CEDaR, and has of red squirrels in South Armagh and recording community. [...] The vertical line across the white “little change” segment of the graph shows the division between declining species on the left, and increasing species on the right (this is broadly equivalent to the metric reported for the first State of Nature report). [...] At the UK level, we assessed change over the period by comparing the rate of change of the indicators between the prior (~1970–2002) and recent (2002–2013) time series, and report the test statistic (t) and the level of significance (p).