UK Charities Conserving Plants, Vertebrates and Marine Life
The British Association of Nature Conservationists (BANC) www.banc.org.uk
Froglife, dedicated to conserving British amphibians and reptiles www.froglife.org
Herpetological Conservation Trust, dedicated to conserving British reptiles and amphibians www.herpconstrust.org.uk/
Mammal Society www.abdn.ac.uk/mammal
Mammals Trust UK http://www.mtuk.org/
Marine Conservation Society www.mcsuk.org
Plantlife www.plantlife.org.uk
Shropshire Invertebrate Group (SIG)
explores the invertebrate interest of this varied and under-recorded county.
http://www.insectpix.net
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds www.rspb.org.uk
UK Government agencies and initiatives
UK Biodiversity Action Plan: lists current action for Britain’s most threatened invertebrates and their habitats www.ukbap.org.uk
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Biological Records Centre: provides contact details and further information about all the national recording schemes for British invertebrates currently in operation. There is a link to the National Biodiversity Network (NBN), a web-based recording scheme administered by the BRC.
www.brc.ac.uk Countryside Council for Wales www.ccw.gov.uk
The Environment and Heritage Service (Northern Ireland http://www.ehsni.gov.uk/
Natural England http://www.naturalengland.org.uk
Environment Agency (England & Wales)
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/?lang=_e
Joint Nature Conservation Committee: undertaking national and international conservation work on behalf of the three country nature conservation agencies English Nature, Scottish Natural Heritage and the Countryside Council for Wales. Includes details of all invertebrate species currently protected by the Wildlife and Countryside Act(1981) www.jncc.gov.uk & www.jncc.gov.uk/species/protect/animals
Scottish Environment Protection Agency
www.sepa.org.uk/
Scottish Natural Heritage
www.snh.org.uk
International invertebrate conservation
www.faunaeur.org/external_databases.php#refs
Fauna Europaea – Taxonomic information and links
www.redlist.org
Searchable database of worldwide threatened invertebrates
www.xerces.org
Xerces Society, a USA based organisation devoted to insect conservation
