We work with a range of other organisations and charities to help improve our collective ability to carry out and promote dragonfly conservation.
Dragonfly Hotspots
We have partnered with wetland sites across Britain through our Dragonfly Hotspots Project. At designated Dragonfly Hotspots we work with site staff and volunteers to:
- Manage their site for dragonflies
- Utlilise their sites for education and outreach
- Engage visitors in dragonfly conservation.
The Pesticide Collaboration
The Pesticide Collaboration brings together health and environmental organisations, academics, trade unions, farming networks and consumer groups, working under a shared vision to urgently reduce pesticide-related harms in the UK, for a healthy future.
It does this through:
- Influencing UK policy
- Convening conversations to explore solutions, including collaborating with farmers to showcase what’s possible
- Supporting and amplifying each other’s pesticide-related work
It aims to tackle the root systemic drivers of pesticide reliance and overuse, and advocate for the solutions required to tackle them.
Dragonfly Conservation Europe
The Dragonfly Conservation Europe was founded in 2024. Its goal is to promote odonatology and the conservation of dragonflies and their habitat by stimulating collaboration across Europe and by acting as a central contact point for European odonatology.
You can sign up for their e-newsletter which is published twice a year.
British Trust for Ornithology
The BTO has been a long-term supporter of the national dragonfly recording scheme. The BDS receives dragonfly records from BTO’s BirdTrack database. The BTO also runs and hosts the BDS’s ‘adopt a site’ map, which allows volunteers to register the sites they record.
Peat-free Partnership
Peatland habitats are home to some of our most threatened species, such as Azure Hawker (Aeshna caerulea) and White-faced Darter (Leucorrhinia dubia). Healthy peatlands also act as vast carbon sinks, so they are one of our biggest resources in fighting climate change.
The BDS works in partnership with many other environmental organisations to pursue peatland protection and restoration, and is part of the Peat-free Partnership, a coalition aiming to end the commercial trade in peat across the UK.
The Ministry Of Justice
The MOJ’s estate is one of the largest in government, including 10 SSSIs (Sites of Specific Scientific Interest) ranging from heathland to salt marsh.
The BDS supports the MOJ ecology department in their efforts to monitor MOJ sites and manage them for the benefit of dragonflies.
State Of Nature Partnership
State of Nature partnership is a group of over fifty nature conservation organisations which together have produced two reviews of the status of wildlife in the UK and its Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories.
Image credits: Broad-bodied Chaser by Gareth William Tonks, Entomologist by Russell Dornan.