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In addition to the list of species, there is also a map of National Heritage Areas, which is available on the Rhode Island Geographic Information System. The last time the plant list was updated was 2015 the animal list hasn’t been updated since 2006. RINHS is already working on creating an internal “relational database where you can ask complicated queries and you can limit things by date or by latitude, longitude, you can do all kinds of things,” said Gregg, regardless if funding through DEM comes through.Īmanda Freitas, DEM’s Rhode Island Wildlife Action Plan community liaison whose work is a collaborative project between the department and RINHS, said if further funding comes in, she would also like to update the rare species lists. With more funding, possibly from the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act of 2021, RINHS and DEM could keep more data and create better internal and external systems for displaying and searching that data, he said. “An Excel sheet is not a good way to operate a database of anything.” That information then goes into a spreadsheet database. The Rhode Island Natural History Survey (RINHS) is a nonprofit that tracks rare species in the state in collaboration with DEM and helps to create the official Natural Heritage lists, for both plants and animals, which are protected under state endangered species law.ĭEM used to have its own in-house Natural Heritage Program, but RINHS took it over in 2007 when DEM’s program staff retired and weren’t replaced.ĭavid Gregg, executive director of RINHS, said the information the staff is gathering includes where a species was found (latitude, longitude, and municipality), who found it, and what conditions it was in (sick or healthy).