Local Record Centres and Related Organisations Links

South West Local Record Centres

Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre (BRERC) – covers the former county of Avon including the North Somerset and Bath and North-East Somerset administrative areas.

Devon Biological Records Centre (DBRC)  

Dorset Environmental Records Centre (DERC) 

Environmental Records Centre for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (ERCISS)

Gloucestershire Centre for Environmental Records (GCER)

Somerset Environmental Records Centre (SERC) 

South West Local Record Centres - if you’re not sure which LRC in the SW you need then look here, you can put the post code in and it will tell you which area it’s in, along with links to all other LRCs.

National Organisations

Association of Local Environmental Record Centre (ALERC) – represents the interests of Local Records Centres in the UK.

Biological Records Centre – the national centre in the UK for terrestrial and freshwater species recording (other than birds), working with the voluntary recording community.

National Federation for Biological Recording (NFBR) – the independent voice of biological recording in the UK; members include individual naturalists, and national recording groups.

National Biodiversity Network (NBN) – host an interactive database of species records from across the UK, submitted by a variety of organisations, such as recording schemes and record centres.