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View Network News – February 2025. In this issue: NBN Trust on film NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording 2025 Online database of UK marine monitoring…

Please could you take 2 minutes to nominate the National Biodiversity Network Trust in the Benefact Group’s Movement for Good “Animals & Wildlife Special Draw”?…

Two species have been added to the GB Alert species list. Both are relatively new to Great Britain and pose a significant threat so everyone…

Several opportunities are currently available for funding and grants as detailed below. National Lottery Grants for Heritage – Grants of up to £10 Million Available…

Defra has announced a consultation on the formation of a Land Use Framework for England. It expresses an ambition that the finalised Framework will inform…

New research by 18 global wildlife conservation funders outlines the need to transform conservation action by encouraging evidence-based decision making when awarding grants. Based on their…

Record numbers of environmental charities commit to racial diversity in bid to boost representation The third annual RACE (Racial Action for the Climate Emergency) Report,…

Plantlife is seeking responses from people and organisations who are involved or have been involved in the translocation of vascular plants, fungi, lichens or bryophytes…

Both the 2025 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge and the 2025 Graduate Researcher’s Awards have opened for nominations. Ebbe Nielsen Challenge The Ebbe Nielsen Challenge has opened its 2025…

MEDIN (Marine Environmental Data and Information Network) has been tasked with finding out whether there is an underlying business case for providing an online database…

Contributed by Ro Scott, Ian Evans and Murdo Macdonald. Members of NBN Trust and Data Partner, Highland Biological Recording Group (HBRG), is mourning the loss…

This new role will be responsible for developing a Heritage Lottery Fund application for Froglife’s Coalface to Wildspace, Yorkshire project. Froglife aims to achieve landscape…

Wildlife conservation charity Froglife has a part-time, paid, traineeship available for a period of 12 months. The trainee will work on the development for the…

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…