United Kingdom Environmental Organisations
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- Botanical Society of the British Isles - founded in 1836. Useful sample of threatened plants database.
- British Ecological Society.
- British Trust for Conservation Volunteers.
- Centre for Ecology and Hydrology - a new sub-section of NERC. It contains some information about the former Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Institute of Terrestrial Ecology.
- CPRE - Council for the protection of rural England.
- Earthwatch Institute in Europe - UK part of the global environmental organisation
- ENDS - Environmental Data Services - long established news and consultancy agency.
- Environment Agency.
- Environmental Change Network.
- Forum for the Future - sustainable development charity.
- Friends of the Earth - UK.
- Geograph - the great idea of having a photograph for every 1 km sq in the UK.
- Geological Society, London
- Google Maps - not really an organisation but maps at almost any UK scale could be very useful!
- Greenpeace.
- Joint Nature Conservation Committee.
- Mammal Trust UK - recently formed group - publishes State of Mammals report
- Natural England - Try the recent State of the Natural Environment report.
- Natural Environment Research Council - head of the UK's environmental research organisations.
- National Trust.
- Naturenet - countryside management and nature conservation.
- Royal Geographical Society.
- Royal Society for Nature Conservation.
- Royal Society for the Protection of Birds - one of the oldest and most influential
- Semantic Web Environmental Directory (SWED) - prototype web for UK environmental data and projects
- The Wildlife Trust - main site for UK conservation groups.
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre based in Cambridge but now part of the UNEP.
- WWF-UK.