Here's a few numbers for 2022 that we use to indicate/measure our productivity/impact at LITTLE OAK GROUP using a simplified triple bottom line accounting framework, maybe a better way to measure success/impact than just in terms of money. Of course the most important values such as depth and quality of personal relationships with each other and our personal emotional connection with nature can only be measured personally and subjectively but for the lesser purpose of objective metrics here's our microscopic, probably arbitrary, perhaps counterproductive and definitely temporary contribution in this infinite immeasurable eternal natural world.
ECONOMIC CAPITAL
Turnover and profit for 2022
Approx £270,000 at approx 20% profit across handled contracts
Net assets
Shares across land, properties, enterprise values and holdings in stocks and cryptocurrency: approx £2.5 million across distributed network (owned by directors or more accurately the banking system)
NATURAL CAPITAL
Land (not including property) owned and/or directly managed
Approx: 5 acres (one acre Bucks, three acres Surrey, one acre Bulgaria)
Land managed indirectly/ contribution to management
Little Oak Tree and Garden care service over 500 private gardens and communal blocks equal to approx 64 acres not including nature reserves and public spaces (enormous areas over 500 hectares).
Project Species Inventory Totals
The Old Vicarage: 1159 species (including priority species) all time, 491 species of moth in 2022 and 594 moth species all time
Beddington Farmlands: 2000+ species (including priority and red data species) all time. (See reports/website)
Bulgaria (new) : 93 species of moths and butterflies here and 140 bird species here
Natural Capital Monitoring Effort Indicators
Ebird checklists in 2022: 306 (approx 500 hours)
Irecord checklists in 2022: approx 121 (approx 250 hours)
Rarities found: Desert Wheatear in Bulgaria (3rd for Bulgaria), Water Rail in Azores (8th record), Vagrant China-mark (First for Bucks), Loxostege Sticticalis, L-album Wainscot and Raspberry Clearwing (Bucks megas) Vagrant Emperor Dragonfly on Azores (only second record), Schmidt's Quaker (Bulgarian rarity-identified by Michal Brzezinski on I-Naturalist)
Carbon Accounts
With the ULEZ coming out to our borough in 2023 we will need to tackle our diesel van situation, Most of our business is circular already, we plant and protect trees and shrubs and store carbon in the approx 70 acres of land we directly or indirectly manage (and influence a much larger area). All our waste is recycled in house and re-used/sold. The Old Vicarage alone contains over 100 large to medium trees. It would be good to get more precise measurements on the amount of carbon we generate/sequester but ultimately unless there is a global carbon price that reflects the carbon footprint of every single product and it's supply and production chain that we use (plus the carbon footprint of any investments) than all carbon accounting can be easily mis-represented. Fundamentally trying to use carbon accounts as some kind of moral measure is as likely to be turned into an amoral/immoral weapon (Carbon crusaders, inquisitors and tax collectors are already at large) as it is to encourage less self destructive behaviour, but since Carbon is now becoming a Holy measure, might as well play the game.
Net Biodiversity Gain Accounts
These results will be in our project reports such as the Beddington Farmlands Bird and Wildlife Report etc. Difficult to make simple conclusions but overall where we do measure things there are lots of positives (not so many at Beddington Farmlands unfortunately). Again another area for more detail and again another area for manipulation and mis-representation by anyone who wishes too- I don't think humans can ever create metrics to measure ethics but we will go extinct or nearly extinct trying .
SOCIAL CAPITAL
Facebook Pages Metrices
Beddington Farmlands: 4.2 google stars, 1.9K followers
Thee Bryans: 1.2K followers
Blog Views
95,000 views in 2022, 1.78 million all time for Non-stop Birding (the Corvo blog gets another 14K or so mainly in October)
Publications in 2022
Portuguese Rarities Committee Report (1), Azores Rare and Scarce Bird Report (1), British Birds paper, co-author (1), Trip Reports (2 on Ebird), Escape Magazine (1).
Total Number of Project Publication Reads on Research Gate
14931 reads (all time) 86 research interest (which is 63% higher than average on this platform which is not bad for amateurs I suppose)
Other social media metrics
Present on Twitter and Facebook in personal capacity and comfortably engaged.
Personal bird and moths lists (mine)
All time world bird list: 3176 (Bubo)
All time WP bird list: 708 (Caspian Tit and Belted Kingfisher) (Netfugl)
All time WP mammal/cetacean list: 99, Marbled Polecat, William's Jerboa, Great Horse-shoe Bat and Alpine Chamois (retrospective from Bulgaria 2011) (Kept in Aulagnier et al plus Cetaceans from Wikipedia)
All time WP Moth List (mainly UK so far) : 867 (64 Uk lifers mainly from Old Vic) Private/scattered lists.
Azores Bird List: 253 (Ebird)
Bulgaria Bird List: 276 (Ebird)
Beddington Farmlands Bird List: 224 (nothing new)
Oxfordshire Bird List: 171 (2 new ones this year- not done much birding in the county this year as been concentrating on moths and ultra low carbon birding in the garden)
Surrey Bird List: 243
The Old Vicarage Bird List: 95 (Seven garden ticks this year)
No comments:
Post a Comment