Links to environmental related web sites

We have selected the following websites as being of potential interest to visitors but can take no responsibility for their content. Views held by other sites are not necessarily those of the Cornwall Wildlife Trust. If you find that a site has moved or is inactive please be kind enough to let us know.

• Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre - BRERC is a ‘not-for-profit’ organisation collecting, collating, managing and making available data since 1974.

• CarShareCornwall.com - maximising people's travel options, whilst also reducing the number of cars on the roads, cutting pollution, saving money and protecting the environment. It is run by local Councils.

• Cornwall County Council Environment and Heritage - CCC employs professional, technical and administrative staff in four integrated areas - Countryside, Natural Environment, Historic Environment and Historic Collections.

• EcoWorld - information and answers about Earth's energy and food supplies, species, ecosystems and projects to preserve them.

• Environmental Records Centre for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly - ERCCIS manages wildlife and geological information for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

• Ethical Consumer - the UK's only alternative consumer organisation looking at the social and environmental records of the companies behind the brand names.

• European Environment Agency - Europe's gateway to environmental information.

• Friends of the Earth - one of the leading environmental pressure groups in the UK

• Friends of the Earth south west region - find out more about the 35 local Friends of the Earth groups in the South-West.

• Good Beach Guide - the Good Beach Guide is the only truly independent guide to the quality of Britain’s bathing waters.

• Green Directory - you have to register with this website but there's lots of jobs and events there if you do.

• Guild of Cornish Hedgers - continuing the ancient craft of hedge laying in Cornwall.

• HDRA - Henry Doubleday Research Association's Organic Network for Schools - encouraging schools to sow, grow and nurture plants using only organic methods.

• Helford Voluntary Marine Conservation Area - HVMCA is a voluntary organisation working to safeguard the marine life of the Helford River.

• Marine Conservation Society - a charity dedicated to protecting our marine environment and its wildlife.

• National Trails - details over 2,500 miles (4,000km) of the nation's favourite rambles and rides, offering some of the best walking, riding and cycling experiences in the country.

• ORCA (Organisation Cetacea) - a non-profit-making conservation and research organisation dedicated to the whales, dolphins, seabirds and other marine life of the Bay of Biscay, English Channel and Northeast Atlantic.

• Recycle for Cornwall - the Recycle for Cornwall campaign has been developed to raise public awareness of recycling and to provide consumers with a compelling reason to recycle.

• ReMaDe Kernow - taking a fresh look at Cornall's waste.

• Ruralnet - this organisation links together organisations and individuals involved in rural development.

• Somerset Environmental Records Centre - SERC is a partnership organisation working closely with the Somerset Wildlife Trust, Somerset County Council, Somerset's District Councils, English Nature, Environment Agency and the Exmoor National Park Authority.

• Sustrans - the sustainable transport charity - works on practical projects to encourage people to walk, cycle and use public transport in order to reduce motor traffic and its adverse effects.

• The Little Pledge - a regional campaign aimed at getting people - in large numbers - to take little steps to save energy and stop climate change.

• United Nations Environment Programme - links to all of the UNEP Programmes and Secretariats that are located in Geneva.