Links to Wildlife recording projects

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• Biological Records Centre (BRC) - BRC is the national custodian of data on the distribution of wildlife in the British Isles.

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

• Buckinghamshire & Milton Keynes Environmental Records Centre - BMERC collects information about the biodiversity and geology of Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes.

• Celebrating Cornwall's Mammals from dormice to dolphins! - general aim of the Celebrating Cornwall's Mammals project is to encourage people to record the mammals they see as well as the tracks and signs the mammals leave behind.

• Derbyshire Biological Records Centre - is part of Derby Museum & Art Gallery, in Derbyshire.

• Dorset Environmental Records Centre - established in 1976 as an independent organisation to collate information on all of Dorset's wildlife.

• Environmental Records Centre for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly - natural history workshops and field trips in Cornwall and Isles of Scilly.

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

• Hertfordshire Biological Records Centre - (HBRC) manages an extensive database with information on habitats, species and sites across the county.

• Launceston Area Parish-Wildlife Group (LAPWG) - a wildlife recording project covering 18 local parishes in North Cornwall, focused on Launceston - an area of about 150 sq miles.

• National Biodiversity Network Trust - a network of local and national data collection and management across the United Kingdom.

• National Federation of Biological Recording - the premier UK organisation for practitioners involved in biological recording.

• National Macro-Moth Recording Scheme - project set up to record the larger British moths.

• National Moth Night - NMN is Britain’s celebration of moths and moth recording.

• Nature Detectives - discover the natural world and explore the changing timing of the seasons across the UK, a project run by the Woodland Trust.

• Record - the Biological Records Centre serving Cheshire, Halton, Warrington and Wirral - 'The Cheshire region'.

• Seaquest South-West - Cornwall and Devon Wildlife Trusts jointly run this project for people who are interested in the larger marine creatures.

• Seasearch - a volunteer underwater seabed surveying project for recreational divers.

• Shorewatch - the object of the scheme is to record wildlife on the seashore around the British Isles.

• 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.

• Suffolk Biological Records Centre - maintains an up-to-date record of sites and species found in the County and makes the data available for conservation, research, monitoring, education and general information.

• Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre - providing a biodiversity information service for the whole of Sussex; this includes the counties of East and West Sussex and the City of Brighton and Hove.

• UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre - provides information for policy and action to conserve the living world.

• Warwickshire Biological Records Centre - WBRC contains information on species distribution and ecological sites in Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull