Local wildlife groups
General wildlife
- Berwick Wildlife Group
- Edinburgh Natural History Society (ENHS)
- East Lothian Countryside Volunteers (ELCV)
- Scottish Wildlife Trust – Local members centres
- RSPB – Local Groups
Specialised
Botanical
- British Bryological Society – Borders Bryophyte Group
- British Bryological Society – South West and Central Scotland Recording Group
Invertebrates
- Butterfly Conservation – East Scotland Branch
- Butterfly Conservation – Glasgow & SW Scotland Branch
- Edinburgh Entomological Club
Vertebrates
- Lothian Bat Group
- Central Scotland Bat Group
- Lothian & Borders Badger Group
- Central Scotland Badger Group
- Red Squirrels in South Scotland
- Lothian and Borders Mammal Group (LaBMaG)
- Central Scotland Mammal Group. Contact: mammals.clacksandstirling@gmail.com
- Lothian Amphibian and Reptile Group (LARG)
- Central Scotland Amphibian and Reptile Group (CentARG)
- Scottish Ornithologists Club – Local branches
- Scottish Raptor Study Group – Regional branches
- Edinburgh Hawkwatch
- Forth Seabird Group
National wildlife groups and recording schemes
A comprehensive list of national recording schemes can be found on the Biological Records Centre’s website.
Botanical
- Botanical Society of Scotland (BSS)
- Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI)
- BSBI Scotland
- Plantlife- Scotland
- Wildflower Society
- British Pteridological Society
- British Bryological Society
- British Lichen Society
- British Phycological Society
- Scottish Fungi
Vertebrates
- Amphibian and Reptile Conservation
- Amphibian and Reptile Groups of the UK
- Froglife Scotland
- RSPB – Scotland
- Scottish Ornithologists Club
- Scottish Raptor Monitoring Scheme
Invertebrates
- Aquatic Coleoptera Conservation Trust
- Buglife – Scotland
- Butterfly Conservation – Scotland
- British Arachnological Society (BAS)
- British Dragonfly Society
- British Myriapod and Isopod Group
- Earthworm Society of Britain
- Ephemeroptera Recording Scheme
- UK Hoverflies public group (affiliated with Hoverfly Recording Scheme)
- Orthoptera Recording Scheme
Other conservation organisations
- Borders Forest Trust
- TCV Scotland
- Esk Valley Trust
- Green Action Trust
- Marine Biological Association (MBA)
- The Marine Life Information Network (MarLIN)
- National Trust for Scotland
- Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh
- Scottish Wildlife Trust
- Southern Uplands Partnership
- Tweed Forum
- Water of Leith Conservation Trust
- Woodland Trust – Scotland
- Freshwater Habitats Trust
Government agencies for wildlife
Local Biodiversity Action Plans
- City of Edinburgh LBAP
- Midlothian LBAP
- Scottish Borders LBAP
- West Lothian LBAP (under related documents)
- Stirling LBAP (1.87 MB)
- Clackmannanshire LBAP (7.82 MB)
Countryside rangers
- Countryside Rangers – East Lothian
- Countryside Rangers – Edinburgh
- Countryside Rangers – Midlothian
- Countryside Rangers – Scottish Borders
- Countryside Rangers – West Lothian
- Historic Environment Scotland Ranger Service
- National Trust for Scotland Ranger Service
- Pentland Hills Regional Park
- Hopetoun Rangers
Recording in Scotland and the UK
- Biological Recording in Scotland (BRISC)
- National Biodiversity Network (NBN) Atlas
- Association of Local Environmental Records Centres (ALERC)
- Biological Records Centre
Neighbouring Local Environmental Record Centres
- Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre
- Dumfries and Galloway Environmental Resources Centres
- Environmental Records Information Centre for the North East of England (ERIC)
- Fife Nature Records Centre
- Glasgow Museums Biological Records Centre. Contact: Biological.records@glasgowlife.org.uk
- “Lorn Natural History Group (LNHG)”
- “Find an LERC Map”
Citizen science projects
- i-spot
- Earthworms in Compost
- Froglife’s Dragon Finder project
- Scottish Cinnabar Moth Survey
- Seasearch
- Butterfly Conservation’s Big Butterfly Count
- RHS’ Cellar Slug Hunt
- BTO’s Garden BirdWatch
- TWIC Hedgehog survey
- TWIC Spots and Stripes Survey
- TWIC Record a Raptor Survey
- TWIC Scottish Spider Search Survey
- TWIC Record a Brown Hare Survey
Online recording
- iRecord (hosted by the Biological Records Centre)
- Consultants Portal (developed by NBN Trust and hosted by the Biological Records Centre)
Wildlife activities for children
- Scottish Wildlife Trust- Edinburgh Wildlife Watch Group
- Scottish Wildlife Trust- North Berwick Wildlife Watch Group
- Other Wildlife Watch Groups for Children in Scotland