Funded by Defra, the aims of the RISC project are to encourage interest in invasive non-native species, and to involve the public in recording some of them.
- Useful data on distributions and ecology of the chosen species will be generated.
- This web-based project with online recording launches on 22 March 2010.
- RISC is being run by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, National Biodiversity Network, Anglia Ruskin University and GB Non-native Species Secretariat.
- Six animal and plant species have been chosen, and RISC will run in association with the national recording schemes for the species. Recorders will be asked to upload a photo of their sighting, and these will be checked and verified by the recording schemes.
- The species were selected based on criteria such as invasiveness, ease of identification and usefulness of data to the recording scheme.