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Nature societies online A directory of British and Irish natural history and related societies

Red Admiral - from 'Illustrations of British Butterflies and their Larvae', by Theo Johnson, 1892.

This online directory provides links to the web pages of a wide variety of general natural history and subject specific organisations in Britain and Ireland. Local, county and national groups and societies are represented.

Societies are searchable by name, keyword (for example 'natural history', 'birds', 'insects' etc), initial letter or region. You may compile a list of societies by clicking the add link associated with each society. This will build a list for you, that can be sent as an email or printed.   More information

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Updates and new organisations


We will be launching a new societies directory in spring 2013, so updates to the current listings are no longer being made.

We are in the process of contacting societies and organisations about registering for the new directory.