The Year in Numbers 2024

Here's a few metrics for 2024 that we use to measure our productivity at LITTLE OAK GROUP using a simple triple bottom line framework of Economic, Natural and Social Capital indicators.

Little Oak Group is a basically a small independent enterprise that specialises in wildlife friendly green space management and people friendly property management and uses profits from commerical activity to set up birding, nature conservation and citizen science projects.

Thanks to everyone in our small community and beyond for another successful year. 

The Year in Numbers 2024

ECONOMIC CAPITAL

Turnover and profit for 2024

Approx  24% profit across handled contracts from Little Oak Tree & Garden Care

Little Oak Property at approx 4.5% profit across six investments. 

Net assets

Shares across land, properties, enterprise values and holdings in stocks, bonds and cryptocurrency: approx £2 million

NATURAL CAPITAL

Land (not including property) owned

 Approx: 2 acres (one acre Sussex and 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 (large areas over 500 hectares).   

Project Species Inventory Totals 

Little Oak Lodge: 418 moth and butterfly species and 96 species of bird

Bulgaria Project :319 species (following revision) of moths and butterflies and 169 bird species

Beddington Farmlands: 2000+ species (including priority and red data species) all time. (See reports/website) 

Natural Capital Monitoring Effort Indicators

Ebird checklists in 2024: 318 (approx 900 hours)

Irecord checklists in 2024: approx 200 (approx 250 hours)

Rarities found: Crested x European Honey Buzzard (Az), Trindade Petrel, Red-eyed Vireo (Azores). A few local rarities including Hawfinches and Roseate Tern.  On the moth front Pretty white-barred was a first for West Sussex, Echium Slender was a 2^nd for West Sussex and lots of good migrants and local specialities including Starry Pearl. Feathered Brindle was first for Bulgarian I-Nat project

Carbon Accounts

Carbon sequestration assets: Land, managed green spaces, planting projects in 2024, habitat improvements in Bulgaria project

New ULEZ compliant van. Contributions to ULEZ.

Net Biodiversity Gain Accounts 

Biodiversity Net Gain Projects as above

SOCIAL CAPITAL

Blog Views

356,000 views in 2024, 2.4 million all time for Non-stop Birding (the Corvo blog gets another 14K or so mainly in October) 

Publications in 2024

Portuguese Rarities Committee Report (1), Dutch Birding articles (1) Trip Reports (5 on Ebird). 

Total Number of Project Publication Reads on Research Gate

20763 reads (all time) 150 research interest (which is 70% higher than average on this platform) 

Facebook Pages Metrices

Beddington Farmlands: 4.2 google stars, 1.9K followers

Thee Bryans: 1.1K followers

Other social media metrics

Present on Twitter and Facebook in personal capacity and comfortably engaged. 

Postscript

Personal bird and other wildlife lists

All time world bird list: 3339 (i-Go terra) 

All time world mammal list: 272 (i-Go Terra)

All time world moths and butterflies: 1451 (I-Go terra)

All time WP bird list: 728 ((Netfugl ranking 93)

All time false WP list: 946 (Netfugl ranking 43)

Azores Bird List: 255 (Ebird) 

Bulgaria Bird List: 289 (Ebird) 

Beddington Farmlands Bird List: 224 (nothing new)

Sussex/ Selsey Peninsula Bird List: 178

Little Oak Lodge Bird List: 96