Essex Wildlife Trust Biological Records Centre works with a variety of partners, including local and national recording groups, Local Authorities and utility companies. We also work with other Local Environmental Records Centres in the East of England region to share best practice, develop policies and standardise procedures across the region.
We are also a member of the National Biodiversity Network (NBN) and share data through the NBN Atlas.
Our current partners are:
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Anglian Water are the largest water and water recycling company in England and Wales by geographic area. They have recently been working with ourselves and the East of England Records Centre group to share data on a regional scale, and in late 2015 signed an agreement with all seven records centres in the group that overlap their service area, to access and use our data in their day to day operations. |
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Epping Forest Countrycare is Epping Forest District Council’s award winning Countryside Management Service. The Countrycare team have a 5 year funding agreement with Essex Wildlife Trust Biological Records Centre, and share records from the Epping area. |
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Lee Valley Regional Park Authority are currently working with ourselves and Hertfordshire Environmental Records Centre on a revision of the Lee Valley Biodiversity Action Plan . |
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Thames Water cover part of west Essex and currently have a joint agreement with Essex Wildlife Trust and three other records centres in the region to use our data in their day-to-day operations. Thames Water is Britain's biggest water and sewerage company, providing 15 million people with the essential service. Their service area includes London and stretches from the eastern fringes of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire in the west, through to the western edges of Essex and Kent in the east. |
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The Environment Agency work with Essex Wildlife Trust on a number of projects, both nationally and on a local scale. More details of local project work in Essex can be found on the Essex Rivers Hub. |
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The Butterfly Conservation Cambridgeshire and Essex Branch covers the administrative county of Cambridgeshire together with the Unitary Authority of Peterborough and the Watsonian Vice-counties of North Essex (VC19) and South Essex (VC18). The Branch area includes the administrative county of Essex together with the London Boroughs of Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Newham, Redbridge and Waltham Forest, as well as the Unitary Authority of Thurrock. |
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Colchester and Ipswich Museums Service are data partners and in 2017 Colchester Museum donated 21 bankers boxes of historic records to us from across North-east Essex, including records from Essex Wildlife Trust reserves and from Colchester Natural History Society recorders. This dataset will be digitised in due course. |
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Dedham Vale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and Stour Valley Project |
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Essex Bat Group aims to survey and record local bat populations, educate the public about bats, rescue and rehabilitate injured and orphaned bats and participate in national bat surveys linked to the Bat Conservation Trust.
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The Essex Rivers Hub is a partnership initiative led by Essex Wildlife Trust, Essex Biodiversity Project and the Environment Agency to provide a portal for sharing information about Essex Rivers. The Essex Rivers Hub hosts information for the Combined Essex Catchment Partnership and the South Essex Catchment Partnership. |
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Little Belhus Country Park Trust was set up to look after the running of Little Belhus Country Park. The forming of the park is an ambitious project to turn 86 hectares of former land fill into a country park and to restore and maintain a variety of habitats and will be opened to the public for recreational use. |
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Buglife is the only organisation in Europe devoted to the conservation of all invertebrates. Essex Wildlife Trust is working with Buglife to support the East of England B-Lines project. B-Lines is a landscape scale initiative to enhance declining pollinator populations by connecting up the best remaining wildflower-rich habitats through the creation or restoration of wildflower habitats. Information on the B-Lines in Essex is available to data users in Essex as part of our data sharing agreement with Buglife. We are also working with Buglife on a nationwide initiative to map Important Invertebrate Areas (IIAs). Three candidate IIAs have been identified in Essex, and Essex Wildlife Trust and the Records Centre have been working with other stakeholders to refine the boundaries for these areas, based on the best available species and habitat data. The final IIA boundaries will again be available to our partners and clients as part of our standard data service. More information on the IIA project can be found on Buglife's website here. |
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Froglife is a national wildlife conservation charity with a specific focus on the conservation of reptiles and amphibians and the habitats that they rely on for their survival. Central to our ethos is to involve as many people as possible in wildlife conservation actions, particularly those who are often excluded from taking part. Our aim is to take people on a wildlife journey, a journey that they can join at any stage, regardless of whether they are a novice or an expert.
Froglife share data with the Essex Wildlife Trust Biologial records centre, including great crested newt data and Toads on Roads survey data. |
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The Earthworm Society of Britain provide data from the National Earthworm Recording Scheme to us via a Creative Commons (CC-BY) licence. |
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The People's Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) has been helping to ensure a future for many endangered species throughout the world, since 1977. They have a special focus on British mammals (previously known as Mammals Trust UK) and coordinate the National Dormouse Monitoring Programme. PTES share data with us via the NBN Gateway. |
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Plantlife is a British conservation charity working nationally and internationally to save threatened wild flowers, plants and fungi. We are currently sharing data to inform their audit of fen sites across England and Wales. |
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The Royal Horticultural Society share data with Essex Wildlife Trust for their site at Hyde Hall and are involved in a number of partnership projects with the Trust. |
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The National Trust protects some of the most important spaces and places in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Data from National Trust sites in Essex is shared with Essex Wildlife Trust. |
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The Species Recovery Trust signed a data sharing agreement with us in 2013. |
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The Vincent Wildlife Trust is a charity working to safeguard the future of mammals in Britain and Ireland.
Essex Wildlife Trust Biological Records Centre holds data from the National Polecat Surveys run by the VWT. The third National Polecat Survey is now underway, click here for more details of how to take part. |
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The Weevil and Bark Beetle Recording Scheme share data with Essex Wildlife Trust Biological Records Centre. Find them on Twitter here: @WeevilRS |
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The Wilderness Foundation is set up to harness the positive power of nature to save lives. |
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The Woodland Trust share data from their Ancient Tree Hunt campaign |
