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Trainee Lichenologist - Scotland
An excellent opportunity for a budding lichenologist!!! The National Trust and Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh are offering a paid lichen traineeship in Scotland. Here, you will be learning from the experts, conducting fieldwork in some of the country’s top sites, with access to the RBGE library and herbarium. This is an unparalleled means of developing your knowledge and skill set in field and lab based lichenology. Deadline: 3/10/2025
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The British Lichen Society (BLS) has set aside a fund of £20k (in the first instance) to provide grants for travel to the IAL 10th Symposium in Trieste, July 26th to 31st 2026.
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To celebrate World Rainforest Day , Sunday 22nd June, April Windle has produced a short video for the BLS, highlighting the lichens of the temperate rainforests of south west England. Watch the video on the BLS Youtube channel, or through the link:
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Lichen course specialising in Rhizocarpon
16th Sept ( 9.00am )-18th Sept.( 4.00pm) 2025, Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh
Tutors: Erik Möller (expert from Oslo), John Douglass. Co-ordinator : Rebecca Yahr
This is an exciting opportunity to learn from the experts this September. Further details will be available shortly.
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Photo Competition Winners
Congratulations to our three photo competition winners: Bob Kemp, Judith Allinson and Chris Cant.
This year, entries for the 2025 AGM Photo Competition were shared online with all members and also with all guests who had booked to attend any of the AGM weekend events. An online voting system was put in place.
Eighty-three people voted for their favourites.
Bob’s photo Just Beautiful (number A15) won the ‘Close encounter’ class with 18% of the votes.
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Are you progressing beyond the "Beginner stage" ? Have you completed a LABs zoom course or equivalent?
Then you may be interested in the LEAF 1 course being delivered in N. Wales in Oct. 2025. For details please look at the BLS events page. The extended deadline is 18th Feb.
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Due to unforeseen circumstances , the Lichen Intermediate Stage 2 course ( LIS2) for June 2025 will not be running.
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A new online group is starting soon with the first meeting planned for the evening of Tues 21st January 2025 and monthly thereafter. It's for anyone who's been looking at lichens for a while and is familiar with the basics of lichen ID (ie an experienced beginner or perhaps early intermediate), but wants to move on to the next level. It's described as an informal self-learning support forum where there will be a few more experienced lichenologists who can offer advice. It's not a tutorial but there might be the occasional talk.
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Due to unforeseen circumstances, we are now unable to print out photos for this competition for display at the BLS AGM. Instead, we aim to share an online folder with all entrants, AGM attendees, and BLS members to showcase the photos and to facilitate online voting.