National award for botanist who recorded 160,000 blooms
FORMER conseiller, biology teacher and Guernsey Press country columnist Nigel Jee has been posthumously recognised nationally for his biological recording and information sharing.
Mr Jee, who died in October 2013, is the inaugural winner of the National Biodiversity Network special award.
La Societe Guernesiaise president Dr Andrew Casebow, who nominated Mr Jee, said that when he learned of the award, he thought the former Island Development Committee president was an obvious contender for it. 'Some people record when plants begin to flower, but Nigel was the only person I know of in the British Isles who recorded the duration of flowering,' he said.
'It was his meticulous recordings that proved that climate change was affecting plants and animals in the Channel Islands.'
