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View Network News – July 2026 In this issue: NBN Trust Strategic Plans – Update July 2026 Observer status to the Convention on Biological Diversity…

At its May Board meeting the NBN Trustees agreed to extend the current NBN Trust Strategy 2022-2027 to April 2028. This gives the Trust time…

The NBN Trust has been granted observer status to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the international agreement that underpins global cooperation on biodiversity conservation,…

Written by Sophia Davies – BBatS Project Officer I would like to introduce the British Bat Survey (BBatS), a relatively new national monitoring scheme run…

Researchers at the University of Reading are currently recruiting volunteers across the UK for a citizen science project investigating how urban hedgehogs may be exposed…

TDWG, the international standards body for biodiversity data, has officially approved two important additions to Darwin Core (DwC): A new Conceptual Model A Darwin Core Data Package…

The Department for Education has launched a consultation asking for the public’s opinion on the subject content for the new GCSE in Natural History. The…

Over 40 rare Hazel Dormice have been reintroduced into a Leicestershire woodland by People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) and partners. This release is part…

GBIF has launched a new website consolidating developments around taxonomic backbone handling, event data exploration, improved search and download, web stack consistency and custom data…

Can you help wildlife charity People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) to survey spectacular stag beetles this summer? Volunteers are needed to share sightings of one…

iSpotnature.org (iSpot), developed and launched by the Open University in 2009, has now been decommissioned and the website has closed. iSpot was an award-winning online…

View Network News – June 2026 In this issue: NBN Atlas data updates – another milestone! NBN Trust receives a National Lottery Community Fund Better…

Written by Mandy Rudd, GiGL’s CEO with extracts from GiGL’s newsletter  2026 is a year of significant anniversaries for GiGL (Greenspace Information for Greater London).…

Saturday 6 – Sunday 14 June is Love Your Burial Ground Week, Churches Count on Nature and National Cemeteries Week. Free webinars This year’s Churches Count…

Are you a citizen scientist? If so, your input is requested for a Europe-wide study which is looking for active and former volunteers from citizen…

As biodiversity loss accelerates and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework calls for urgent, evidence-based conservation action, wildlife biobanking has an increasingly important role to play…

The public are being asked to give their views on a selection of wildlife, native to the UK, that will appear on the next series…

GBIF – the Global Biodiversity Information Facility – is seeking a dynamic, visionary Executive Secretary with international standing to lead GBIF in the next phase…

The NBN Trust is pleased to announce that we have been awarded £11,100 from the National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF) Awards for All England -…

In our monthly data sharing news, we are pleased to highlight the following new or updated datasets, which have contributed to an amazing 385,172,558 species occurrences…