The Alderney Biodiversity Centre is one of the UK’s network of Local Environmental Records Centres (LERCs) and is funded, staffed and managed by the Alderney Wildlife Trust.

It aims to collate, collect and responsibly manage biological, ecological, and environmental data, material, and information from Alderney and its territorial waters, making this content available in a form that is useful and accessible to residents, land managers, policy makers, researchers, commercial users, and other interested parties.

Data hosted come from both amateur and professional individuals and organisations, including the Alderney Wildlife Trust.  This includes everything from casual recording to long-term monitoring programme data.

Through Indicia, we are linked to the UK Biological Records Centre, meaning that records collected through apps like iRecord and iNaturalist automatically come through to the Alderney Biodiversity Centre. Our data holdings also include a number of data sets which are submitted through recording schemes that are not linked to Indicia, and which do not yet appear on the website. If you are interested in these data, please submit a data request.

The Alderney Biodiversity Centre works collaboratively with the Guernsey Biological Records Centre, the Jersey Biodiversity Centre, and La Société Sercquaise to further biological recording within the Channel Islands.