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Butterfly Conservation is looking for an experienced, organised and enthusiastic individual to join its team on a 12-month fixed-term maternity leave cover contract, as a…

View Network News – December 2025 In this issue: NBN Award recipients 2025 Vacancy – Trustee to the NBN Trust Board Reflections on the NBN…

Advance notice to NBN Atlas users We’ll be performing essential maintenance on the NBN Atlas on Tuesday 9 December, between 07:30–09:00 GMT. During this time,…

Following our 25th NBN Conference, which was our new CEO Gareth Thomas’ first, we are pleased to share Gareth’s reflections on the day. The 2025…

In late October and early November, new NBN Trust CEO, Gareth Thomas, represented our charity at the 32nd GBIF: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility Governing…

The UK Biodiversity Indicators give a snapshot of the current status of biodiversity in the UK and how it’s changing. The Indicator – Biodiversity information…

Information is being sought on the status of native wild mammals and their habitats at a constituency level. This is part of a UK-wide ‘threat-mapping’…

The winners and highly commended recipients of the NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording 2025 were announced at the SS Great Britain, in Bristol, on Thursday…

View Network News – November 2025 In this issue: NBN Conference – final chance to book! Sharing data from iRecord to the NBN Atlas The…

The following funding and grant opportunities are now open. Grants of up to £100,000 Available for Community and Environmental Projects (England) The FCC Community Action…

More than 7,500 educational settings are now taking part in the free National Education Nature Park programme. Over a quarter of all schools and colleges…

A family of five beavers and a beaver pair have been released at two sites on Loch Beinn a Mheadhoin in the Glen Affric National…

Over 25 years of citizen science data provides exceptional resource for flagship species. Data from a long-running citizen science survey is being used in the…

Communicate is the UK’s leading annual conference for environmental communicators. Running since 2004, it brings together a diverse group of delegates each year to develop…

Between 2009 and 2025 BRISC (Biological Recording in Scotland) provided bursaries for taxonomic training to people all over Scotland. This work was done alongside the…

LicheN is a new mobile app developed by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) that uses lichens to measure the effects of atmospheric…

The Biological Recording Company is collaborating with the British Mycological Society (BMS) to assess how fungal records submitted to The Fungal Records Database of Britain and…

A big thank you to CIEEM for a day that joined the dots from source-to-sea policy to hands-on restoration. As excellently described in the keynote…

Written by Julie Bunt, DASSH Senior Data Officer, the UK Archive for Marine Species and Habitats Data Further progress was made towards the development of a Digital…

Written by Martin Harvey, UKCEH Biological Records Centre  The UKCEH Biological Records Centre (BRC) maintains iRecord and the underlying Indicia software that is used by…