Societas Europaea Herpetologica (SEH) is a specialist society presently made up by nearly 350 members from most of the European countries as well as from elsewhere in the world.

SEH publishes a quarterly journal Amphibia-Reptilia. Each volume of this multidisciplinary publication contains high quality papers, short articles on new methods and ideas in progress, book reviews and SEH News.

SEH published Herpetology Notes, an open access online journal dedicated to publish short notes as well as long papers on the natural history, distribution and faunistics of amphibians and reptiles." And link "Herpetology Notes" to http://www.herpetologynotes.seh-herpetology.org

SEH organises international conferences at different venues in Europe normally every other year. SEH welcomes proposals by herpetologists in Europe to host future SEH conferences. Potential hosts should contact the SEH Council. Guidelines for conference organization can be found here. Members can participate at reduced fee.

SEH is an international non-governmental member of IUCN - the World Conservation Union.

SEH organisation is controlled by its statutes and bye-laws, and the Council, whose members are elected by members of the Society at Ordinary General (Business) Meetings.

SEH has two committees. The Conservation Committee is concerned with conservation of the herpetofauna in all parts of Europe and adjacent regions, and members form the European Reptile and Amphibian Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission. Results of the Conservation Committee’s work are published in Amphibia-Reptilia and elsewhere (http://www.seh-cc.org/blogs/blog2.php). The Mapping Committee is devoted to plotting species distributions, and the Atlas of amphibians and reptiles in Europe was published in Paris in 1997.

SEH has a website located at http://www.seh-herpetology.org/, with a webpage giving further information about the Society, including a list of publications, journal contents, membership application form and details about forthcoming conferences.

SEH’s webpage is additionally being developed for use as a Pan-European Herpetological Network, as a means of exchanging information, and bringing together herpetologists and regional societies, in order to encourage cooperation and closer communication between them.  The webmaster’s e-mail address to whom enquiries and comments should be sent is razzetti@unipv.it.

SEH annualy awards the SEH Grant in Herpetology (up to EUR 2000) to a project that is orientated to conservation of the amphibians and reptiles of Europe and the Mediterranean basin, focused on either a species or habitat.