# Aquatic Coleoptera Conservation Trust

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC037556
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)
- **Registered:** Oct. 25, 2006
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC037556


## Contact

- **Address:** 3 Eglinton Terrace, Ayr
- **Postcode:** KA7 1JJ



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of environmental protection or improvement&#x27;

**What the charity does:** To address conservation issues associated with species of aquatic beetles in the United Kingdom • To promote research on wetland beetles appropriate to the conservation needs identified in the United Kingdom. • To raise the profile of said insects and related species by publication and specialist advice. • To support the National Biodiversity Network (NBN), iRecord and similar UK-wide initiatives by providing data and by interpretation of data. • continuing promotion of work on species at risk of extinction in the UK • various surveys, including Loch Roan in Dumfries &amp; Galloway, also Llyn-y-parc in North Wales and Otmoor area in Oxfordshire • general submissions of material for identification up to 4,651 specimens in 44 batches • initiation of the Species Evidence Base for 96 taxa covered by Natural England&#x27;s Nature Recovery Network • continuing work on an update of the fauna of Dumfries &amp; Galloway • our activities continue to be largely underlined by the publications record

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;No specific group, or for the benefit of the community&#x27;

**Objectives:** To promote the advancement of environmental protection or improvement





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** East Ayrshire
- **Geographical spread:** Scotland and other parts of the UK







