Recording Groups

The Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre co-ordinates several specialist recording groups. Membership to these groups is free. Members receive two newsletters per year, and have the opportunity to attend indoor training workshops and outdoor field meetings. The records that are collected by these groups are used to produce distribution atlases. These distribution atlases benefit conservation by indicating the status and location of species.

See the group pages for more information on how to join the different groups.

	Avon Reptiles & Amphibians Group (ARAG) A newly formed group set up to actively record and conserve reptiles and amphibians
	Avon Butterfly Project (ABP) This is the largest of the BRERC recording groups, with two hundred recorders, and the group have just produced the next in the new series of BRERC distribution atlases
	Avon Flora Group (AFG) Formed to further the work of the Avon Flora Project, which recently produced the 'The Flora of the Bristol Region'; the first of the new series of BRERC distribution atlases
	Bristol Region Dragonfly Recording Scheme (BRDRS) - includes grasshoppers & crickets Launched in 1999 to record the distribution of Dragonflies, Damselflies, Grasshoppers & Crickets in the Bristol region
	Bristol & District Moth Group (B&DMG) This group records both micro and macro moths, of which many scarce species have strongholds in the Bristol region.
	Bristol & District Hoverfly Group (B&DHG) This is a recently established group, formed to improve our knowledge of these under recorded diptera.
	Avon RIGS Group (Regionally Important Geological /geomorphological Sites) This group records and protects our local geology and geomorphology, which is amongst the most varied of any in Britain. It includes sites made famous by the pioneer geologist William Smith.

BRERC also has links with many other local groups such as the Bristol Naturalists' Society, Avon Bat Group and the Bristol Ornithological Club.

If you would like to become a member of any of these recording groups and you have records you would like to send to any of them, please email us via our Contacts page.