On 12thJune, Dr Ian Denholm, from the University of Hertfordshire’s School of Life and Medical Sciences, becomes the new President of the Botanical Society of the British Isles (BSBI).
Ian has been a driving force behind the society’s recent initiatives in publicity and outreach. His presentation to journalists and conservationists, at the May 2013 launch of the State of Nature report, showcased BSBI as a key partner in this new coalition of conservation and research organisations supporting British wildlife. The society is one of the world’s leading contributors of biological records and Ian co-ordinated last year’s highly successful Mapping Conference, held at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.

Ian Denholm comments: “BSBI’s structured species’ recording and mapping projects revolutionised approaches to monitoring our flora and fauna, and have had a lasting, international influence on how wildlife is recorded, mapped and monitored. The success of these projects is due to the...