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Flora & Fauna
Some useful links to learn about British and local wildlife and their conservation status:
National Biodiversity Network (NBN) Atlas
The largest repository of publicly available biodiversity data holding over 200 million records. An online, searchable tool allowing you to see all the recorded wildlife, by species, down to a 100m radius of your home postcode.
The most comprehensive survey of plants (flowering plants, ferns and charophytes) ever undertaken in Britain and Ireland. It includes over 30 million records, collected mainly by volunteer recorders of the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) and shows trends over time.
The MAGIC website provides authoritative geographic information about the natural environment. It is presented in an online interactive map which can be explored using various mapping tools that are included.