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View Network News – January 2025. In this issue: NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording 2025 – open for nominations! NBN Trust Impact Report 2023/24 NBN…

Environmental monitoring is critical for tracking, understanding, and responding to environmental change, and for underpinning environmental regulation. Monitoring programmes tend to be established to meet…

The winner of the 2024 John Sawyer NBN Open Data Award, announced at the NBN Conference in Liverpool in November, was the Terrestrial Heteroptera Recording…

During 2024, 11,039 encounters of whales, dolphins, porpoises, and other marine life were reported to the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust (HWDT) by members of…

Do you consult communities in biodiversity decision-making, action plans, or policies? Are there specific groups in your community that you find difficult to engage? A…

Written by Giuliana Sinclair, Community Science Officer, Angela Marmont Centre for UK Nature One day in late summer, while on a bus back home from work, I…

PhD: Temporal and spatial impacts of conservation actions on British reptiles and amphibians This PhD will be hosted by The University of Reading. This CASE…

The National Biodiversity Network Trust (NBN Trust) is excited to offer an opportunity to collaborate with the team on developing the NBN Atlas mapping capability.…

Mistletoe (Viscum album) is thought to be spreading in Britain and Ireland, but where will the mistletoe go? With a changing climate, an evolving treescape and shifts…

View Network News – December 2024. In this issue: Recipients of the NBN Awards 2024 announced! Looking back on a great NBN Conference 2024 The…

The Green Match Fund, a seven-day campaign by the Big Give and Environmental Funders Network, offers UK-based environmental charities an opportunity to double their fundraising…

The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) has unveiled its five-year strategy:  Environmental Science for a Better World. As an independent research institute funded…

This PhD will be hosted by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. The project involves working with data from the UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme to develop…

The new toolkit from Land App has launched ahead of National Tree Week, and will bring huge benefits to farmers, livestock, and nature. A brand-new…

The Big Rock Pool Challenge is an exciting new initiative from The Rock Pool Project, that combines competitive rock pooling with citizen science. Participants join…

Written by Dr Steven Allain, UK Conservation Officer and Trustee for the British Herpetological Society (BHS) The treasure trove of biodiversity information hidden within published works is…

The National Biodiversity Network (NBN) Trust welcomes the publication of the Scottish Biodiversity Strategy Delivery Plan 2025-2030. This ambitious framework represents a significant step forward…

The winners and highly commended recipients of the NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording 2024 were announced on Thursday 21 November at the NBN Conference in…

View Network News – November 2024. In this issue: NBN Conference – last chance to book! New NBN Trust team member Insights into organising a…

The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) has been awarded £29.9M to deliver the National Capability for UK Challenges ‘Understanding the UK Environment’ programme.…