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Waxcaps: The Hidden Jewels in Yorkshire’s grasslands
Funded by the Yorkshire Water Biodiversity Enhancement Fund, our waxcaps project is now entering its third year, where we’re continuing to survey and catalogue important waxcap fungi sites across the region. We’re using these records to help create important data outputs such as a site-based fungi-rich grassland inventory which will be shared with partners and stakeholders in planning, conservation, and land management, helping to protect and consider these important sites. We have lots of opportunities for volunteers to get involved, including a number of training and foray events throughout October and November.
Our mission is…
“...to improve and inform environmental decision making, conservation, land management and sustainable development in North and East Yorkshire through the collation, management, analysis and dissemination of biodiversity information.”
Ecologists
3-D image of the cliffs at Flamborough, East Yorkshire, image copyright NEYEDC
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.
Partners & Projects
NEYEDC carrying out great crested newt eDNA sampling, photograph copyright Mark Wills
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.
Naturalists
Adder, photo copyright Phil Shaw
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 Dunnington, York, act as the registered office of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union and hosts its library. From time to time NEYEDC organises training events related to ecological data capture, collation, management, analysis and licencing.
General Interest
Roger Key and a young naturalist, photograph copyright Paula Lightfoot
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.
About us
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 National Landscapes. 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.
Our funding partners
