3 July 2025
NBN Atlas Accelerator Project 2024/25 – new features and platform updates
The NBN Atlas Data and Development teams have introduced a range of new features being rolled out in the NBN Atlas. The updates are being…
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3 July 2025
The NBN Atlas Data and Development teams have introduced a range of new features being rolled out in the NBN Atlas. The updates are being…
1 May 2025
We are excited to announce the release of the NBN Atlas Access Controls. This will enable data partners to share and manage access to their…
7 April 2025
We are really fortunate to be working with Futures Wild to help us understand what is needed to improve the NBN Atlas maps. We know…
1 August 2024
A huge thank you and congratulations to all our data partners for helping us achieve 300 million occurrence records being shared in the NBN Atlas.…
1 February 2024
The NBN Atlas is the national biodiversity data repository. Launched in 2017, it is the UK’s largest publicly accessible source of biodiversity data. It brings…
2 March 2023
Building a Modern, Resilient Infrastructure Using the AWS Well-Architected Framework with CirrusHQ Part of the NBN Atlas Fit for the Future Project, included optimising the…
2 February 2023
As NBN Atlas users will be aware, over the last ten months we have been implementing the NBN Trust’s Fit For The Future project (FFTF)…
1 June 2022
The NBN Trust’s Fit For The Future project (FFTF) will upgrade the NBN Atlas and re-align it with the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA). The…
1 December 2021
We have made improvements to the advanced search function, which is now live on the NBN Atlas. The advanced search had previously not been working…
3 December 2020
View the NBN Atlas News – December 2020 In this issue: New species search Updates to the Watsonian vice county GIS boundaries Spatial Layer update…
8 November 2020
The Biological Records Centre has updated the Watsonian vice county names in the GIS boundaries file to correct typos and resolve inconsistencies. There is no…
8 November 2020
We have made several changes to improve the species search function of the NBN Atlas. The changes are effective from either of the search boxes…
8 November 2020
The NBN Atlas stores records based on a pair of coordinates and a measure of the uncertainty of the coordinates. For records supplied with a…
8 November 2020
The NBN Atlas is the UK node for the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and with the agreement of our data providers we regularly share…
8 November 2020
If you are using data for commercial purposes (one primarily intended for or directed towards commercial advantage or monetary compensation), you must not use any…
8 November 2020
The species dictionary on the NBN Atlas was updated with the latest version of the UK species inventory on 9 October 2020. The main updates since…
8 November 2020
Apart from holding species data, the NBN Atlas holds a suite of spatial data layers such as boundary, habitat and environmental data layers. These layers provide…
16 September 2020
The large BTO + partners dataset has now been updated to include records up to the end of 2019. The single, very large, dataset has…
5 August 2020
The main British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) dataset on the NBN Atlas: Birds (BTO + partners) only has records up to the end of 2015…
30 April 2020
View the NBN Atlas News – April 2020 In this issue: NBN Atlas data used in the Darwin Tree of Life Project NBN Atlas development…