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Discover the mammals of Europe is a campaign aiming at supporting people and organisations working on mammal conservation and research in Europe.EMMA2 - 1 year on
A year after our initial meeting in Rome the project has made good progress and is on-track with the timetable we proposed there.
The main achievements this year have been:
- We have agreed the exact boundaries of the area to be mapped and prepared maps of the CGRS cells for each country (available here).
- We have agreed a full species list for the area, annotated with cases where taxonomic decisions may need to be made as the project moves forward. We recognise that changes may need to be considered during the lifetime of the project and have set up a system for doing this,
- We have appointed coordinators for almost every country involved in the project, as well as a small number of topic coordinators to help with the work (available here).
For 2018, we are planning an opportunity for all our coordinators to get together and discuss topics relating to the collection, management and storage of data for the atlas. We will also be opening discussions with a publisher to begin the process of planning the publication and we will also start looking for authors to prepare the species accounts.
UPDATE: The coordinators meeting is now confirmed as April 21-22 in Prague, Czech Republic. Coordinators who have not yet done so are encouraged to register their intentions by following the menu item EMMA2 > Meeting attendance form (you must be logged in to do this). Detailed invitations will be e-mailed to all coordinators within the next 2 weeks.
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8th International Colloquium on Squirrels
The 8th International Colloquium on Squirrels (ICS2018) will take place June 4th to June 8th 2018 in NUI Galway, Ireland. The colloquium takes place every three years, with Galway chosen as the venue at the 7th Colloquium in Helsinki Finland in 2015. For the first time the colloquium will include ground squirrel research as well as tree squirrels and flying squirrels (hence the change from the previous name of International Colloquium on Arboreal Squirrels). Oral and poster presentations on the ecology, behaviour, systematics, genetics and conservation of squirrels are warmly welcome. Keynote presentations will be given by Prof. Stan Boutin of University of Alberta and Prof. Jane Waterman of the University of Manitoba. We will also have a field excursion, conference banquet and a bit of craic.
Further details can be found at http://www.conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference=533, or by searching for ‘squirrels 2018’ on Facebook
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Mammifères Sauvages du Maroc
Wild Mammals of Morocco: Populations, Distribution and Ecology, edited by S. Aulagnier, F. Cuzin and M. Thévenot, has recently been published by the Société Française pour l'Etude et la Protection des Mammifères. The work includes distribution maps for all species recorded in the second half of the 20th century, as well as data on their taxonomy, vernacular names and ecology. More details about the publication and where to buy it can be found here.
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EMMA2 - Rome meeting
Photo: Mustafa Sözen
The first meeting to discuss the 2nd edition of the Atlas of European Mammals (EMMA2) was held in Rome on 25026 November 2016. 33 people from 21 countries attended, though 2 were not present for this photo on Saturday morning.
The agenda, notes and report of the meeting can be downloaded by following the menu EMMA2>Documents.
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Atlas of Mammals in Ireland
A new Mammal Atlas for Ireland has just been published. The Atlas of Mammals in Ireland 2010-2015 is the first publication to map all 72 terrestrial and marine mammals that occur in Ireland. Almost a quarter of a million mammal sightings were used to produce the distribution maps. The full colour maps compare the pre-2010 distribution to 2010-2015 distribution. The 200 page hardback book also contains especially written species accounts by 42 leading authorities on Irish mammals as well as chapters on: legal protection, the origins of Irish mammals, mammal research in Ireland, advances in genetic techniques and more.
The Atlas is now available to purchase online: http://www.nhbs.com/title/213914/atlas-of-mammals-in-ireland-2010-2015?bkfno=234271
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