North & East Yorkshire Ecological Data 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, a registered charity. We are accredited under the Association of Local Environmental Records Centres (ALERC) scheme, which identifies standards against which LERCs can be assessed and is recognised by Defra. We work 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. 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.”