Mammal records captured from Licence Returns submitted to Natural Resources Wales

This dataset is comprised of records of mainly mammal species across Wales obtained from former Countryside Council for Wales' and Natural Resources Wales' survey, monitoring and research licence return forms for scheduled mammal species. The majority of records were captured by Cofnod during 2016, from a batch of forms held by Natural Resources Wales, but further forms are held by NRW. This dataset does not represent a systematic coverage or survey of Wales. Location of records is generally random, depending on the requirements of the licence holders. This dataset includes Sensitive species records (as described in the Data Sourcing, Management and Use policy available from the Cofnod website) but their grid references have been reduced to a non-sensitive resolution (and site names and comments are not included).