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Earthworm Society of Britain

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 1, 2022
Entity authorityQ25040687 ↗
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The Earthworm Society of Britain aims to promote and support scientific research so that earthworms and their environment can be better understood. Through its work the society aims to encourage the conservation of earthworms and their habitats and to educate and inspire people so that these creatures may continue to be enjoyed in the future. The Society was founded in 2009.

The society hosts the National Earthworm Recording Scheme and collates biological records of earthworm species occurrences from amateur naturalists and earthworm research organisations.

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This entry incorporates text from “Earthworm Society of Britain” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.