Blogs

The SBIF Advisory Group and Working Group is now being co-chaired by Ellen Wilson and Gill Dowse. This reflects the close working relationship between Ellen…

The Biological Records Centre is undertaking a project to add value to the data it holds. The BRC looked at the single records it holds…

SBIF gets a mention on page 49 of the new Strategy for Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Research 2022-2027 “Biodiversity Goal: Research on the function,…

To find out what the Geospatial Commission thinks about SBIF (spoiler alert, “Trailblazing in Scotland”!) have a read of their blog about their recently published…

SBIF’s Better Biodiversity Project is still on track, even though the blog space has been a bit quiet of late; lots has been going on.…

In the last couple of months, SBIF has been referenced in a major publication on the development of a single Scottish Biodiversity Indicator Development of…

All Change As you may have noticed, it has been a while since our last blog post. It is because we have all been very…

Written by Cally Ullman-Smith, winner of the inaugural David Robertson Youth Award (2015) Life has certainly been busy since the day I was nominated for…

Written by James McCulloch, winner of the inaugural Gilbert White Youth Award (2015) In November 2015, I was honoured to be awarded the inaugural NBN…

Written by John-James Wilson, Vertebrate Zoology at World Museum, National Museums Liverpool Like colleagues at natural history collections across the UK, the curatorial team at…

The Covid-19 crisis has had an enormous impact on the world.  It has exposed our vulnerabilities and how deeply connected (or disconnected) we are with nature.  It has highlighted just how…

Today SBIF reached another milestone in that our ‘SBIF Review Investment Programme Proposal’ has just been formally submitted to Scottish Government for their consideration. This…

Written by Katie Utting, The Otter Trust Sir John Lawton set the scene for the NBN Conference 2019, with an empirical illustration of the progressive…

Written by Dr Adrian Cooper Felixstowe’s Citizen Science Group was created by members of Felixstowe’s Community Nature Reserve in April 2018. Early in 2019, members…

The State of Nature report 2019 gives us a robust assessment of the UK’s wildlife and highlights its continued decline. This can only be done…

Blog written by Rachel Tierney, SBIF Development Officer. Following Scotland’s call for a sustainable biodiversity data network, great energy went into working with stakeholders across…

Blog written by Jonathan Willet, BRISC Committee member. It might surprise you to know that Lourdes has played a part in the creation of SBIF.…

Blog written by Guy Harewood, Sustainable Development Officer at Stirling Council. First up, the formal introduction with the usual quotes from legislation and Government guidance…

Blog written by David Roy, Head of BRC and Martin Harvey, Technical Liaison, Biological Records Centre. Over 350 years ago, the ‘father of natural history’…

Blog written by Rachel Tierney, SBIF Development Officer. SBIF Review shortlisted for CIEEM Awards We are delighted to announce that the SBIF Review has been…