Getting started as a recorder

If you are interested in wildlife and the natural world, and want to find out more about how to record the things you see when you are out and about, we have lots of information to help get you started. Recording what you see and sharing this information is an important first step in helping to protect our wildlife.

Professional services

We provide a full Ecological Data Search service for a site or geographical area and can tailor the information to meet your needs. If you are a professional consultant and need to find out more about the service or to request a report follow the link below.

We also provide a range of other services, including Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Drone) surveys, GIS mapping, spatial analysis and modelling work, and the running and management of site survey programmes.

To find more about UAV surveys and our other professional services click here. 

stronger together

We work closely with partners across national and local government, private companies, academia, naturalist groups and the third sector. We ensure that our partners’ data is collated and managed as part of our biodiversity evidence base and disseminated by mutual agreement. Biodiversity evidence supports research and helps our users to make informed environmental decisions and remain compliant with a number of legal and policy instruments and, where relevant, fulfil the Statutory Biodiversity Duty.

Projects often arise through partnership working. We both lead on the development of data related projects and provide data collection, collation, management and analysis for projects developed by our partners. Currently, our main project is NatureHack, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, which aims to place new biodiversity surveillance technologies in the hands of conservation land managers. We are also active in a number of projects led by our partners including the North Yorkshire Turtle Dove Project and the Nidderdale AONB Wild Watch.
 

supporting the natural history community

NEYEDC works closely with both individuals and volunteer-based organisations; about one third of our species records are collected by field naturalists and made available for our use. In return NEYEDC ensures that the work of these local experts and groups are considered in the decisions that affect conservation, land management and sustainable development in North and East Yorkshire.

To further support naturalists the NEYEDC offices in York act as the registered office of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union and hosts its library. NEYEDC holds an annual Data Providers’ Forum and from time to time organises training events related to ecological data capture, collation, management, analysis and licencing.

we are a Local Environmental Records Centre

NEYEDC is the Local Environmental Records Centre (LERC) for North and East Yorkshire, including the cities of York and Hull. We also cover the North York Moors and Yorkshire Dales National Parks and the Nidderdale and Howardian Hills Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). The Centre is an operating function of the Yorkshire and Humber Ecological Data Trust (YHEDT), a registered charity. We are accredited under the Association of Local Environmental Records Centres (ALERC) scheme, a system which system identifies a set of standards against which LERCs can be assessed and is recognised by Defra.