NBN Award Recipients 2025

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…

Funding and grants – November 2025

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…

Stag beetle larvae. Credit Mark Tudor

First ever national analysis of stag beetles

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 2025: Against the Odds

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…

BRISC Bursaries

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 – a new mobile app

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

Fungus c. Keiron Brown

The Fungus Verification Consultation Project

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…

DASSH Attends 3rd DTO-BioFlow General Assembly

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…

Empis tessellata © Martin Harvey

Sharing data from iRecord to the NBN Atlas

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…

Network News – October 2025

View Network News – October 2025 In this issue: NBN Conference – Programme complete! NBN Atlas Strategy 2025-2030 launched NBN Trust welcomes IQUW Group as…

Look out for yellow-seeded false pimpernel

Yellow-seeded false pimpernel (Lindernia dubia) is new to Great Britain (GB) and was detected in Pulborough, West Sussex, earlier this year. This species is an…

Funding and grants – October 2025

Funding for projects that have a positive impact on communities, people or the environment (UK) The Matthew Good Foundation has opened the next round of…

NBN Atlas Strategy 2025-2030 launched

The NBN Trust is excited to share the NBN Atlas Strategy 2025-2030.   In this strategy, we outline our ambitions for our flagship initiative, the…

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