Affiliations

The Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland is a Registered Charity (No. 208205) which anyone, anywhere may join.
Members include both amateurs and professionals, who often work together, especially in the areas of conservation and biological recording.
Founded in 1876, the Society’s objective is to promote the study of Mollusca in its widest aspects for the benefit of the public.
Conservation and biological recording are collaborative endeavours, not only involving amateur and professional conchologists and malacologists, but also specialists in other fields.
The Society affiliates with organisations for invertebrate groups other than molluscs, that have similar objectives, and with other organisations concerned with conserving our natural heritage.

Although the Society's title includes the words "Great Britain and Ireland", our interests extend worldwide. In addition to making grants for research within these islands, our grants have included research work in places as far apart as Morocco and Borneo. We also support the Congress of European Malacological Societies and the World Congress of Malacology.

Conservation frequently involves conserving the habitat in order to conserve the diverse groups of plants and animals living there. It is very rare for a conflict to arise between the habitat preferences of the animals and plants naturally present. Conflict usually only arises when humans want to put the habitat to their own use.

Biological recording is an essential adjunct to conservation. Unless the animals and plants present in a community are known, it is exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to formulate a conservation strategy.

If you represent a related society with similar objectives to ours, please see our information on affiliating with the Conchological Society.

How to affiliate with the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland

The study and conservation of invertebrates have never been so important, and we believe that there is an urgent need for natural history societies such as ourselves to work together to encourage the general public, and young people in particular, to engage with nature.

Affiliating with the Conchological Society will not only help to promote your Society but will help us to further our aims and increase the public benefit our societies can offer.

What would affiliation mean?

This would depend on the nature and 'match' of the societies. At least two main types of affiliation are possible.

Standard Conchological Society Affiliation

Standard affiliation terms are flexible and would normally be cash neutral. They could include, for example:

Co-promotion of affiliation partners on each others' websites and house journals
Free admission to each others events where the events are free to their own members.
Discounts on each others' publications, where discount arrangements exist
Opportunities to present at each others' events or submit articles to each others' periodicals
Work together in other ways as appropriate, e.g. by organising joint events

To apply to join our Affiliate Scheme please contact us by email to .

Conchological Society Corporate Partnership

Your company can become an Conchological Society Sponsor or Partner by supporting our work to engage the public and young people with conchology and natural history.

To apply to become a Conchological Society Corporate Partner please contact us by email to .

Links to Third Party Sites

This site contains links to sites operated by parties other than the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Such sites are not under the control of the Society and the Conchological Society is not responsible for their content or any links they may contain. The inclusion of any link on a page on the Conchological Society website does not imply any endorsement of the material on such sites. Neither the Conchological Society nor its trustees, council members, society members or agents will be liable for damages arising out of or in connection with such sites.

If you would like the Conchological Society to link to your site please submit it for inclusion in our links directory. Your site must be of interest to conchologists, malacologists or people interested in wider aspects of natural history.