Sharing information about wildlife
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Local Record Centres
In the UK there is an enormous amount of biodiversity information that has been gathered over the years by all sorts of organisations and individuals. Most of these people are volunteers who organise themselves through many national and local societies and recording schemes. The UK government (through its conservation and environmental agencies), local government and non-government wildlife-related organisations all collect and use biodiversity data. One of the principal means of collation and interpretation of this data is the network of local records centres and at the national level, the Biological Records Centre that collates and interprets data from national recording schemes (NBN, 2008)
This information is vital if we are to understand the distribution and abundance of species and habitats; without it, making informed decisions on how to protect the UK’s wildlife is much more difficult.
Local Record Centres in the North West will provide a focus for the collation, management and provision of local biological data. They will also form a critical component of the National Biodiversity Network.
The 5 established or proposed Local Record Centres in the North West are:
Greater Manchester Record Centre
The Greater Manchester Local Record Centre is currently in development
Lancashire Record Centre
The Lancashire Local Record Centre is in currently in development
Mersey BioBank
Merseyside BioBank is the Local Records Centre for north Merseyside
rECOrd
rECOrd is the Local Biological Records Centre serving Cheshire, Halton, Warrington and Wirral - 'The Cheshire region'
Tullie House
The Museum maintains a local biological records database covering the county of Cumbria
