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The UKEOF Catalogue provides access to information about environmental observations, offering a unique UK overview. It enables easy access to up-to-date information on the UK’s monitoring…

BRISC (Biological Recording in Scotland) and GNHS (Glasgow Natural History Society) have been offering bursaries towards studying wildlife in Scotland since 2009.  Since then other…

A new MSc in Citizen Science at University College London will enable a new generation of socially engaged scholars and practitioners to meet the needs of…

In 2022 city regions across the UK will be entering the City Nature Challenge, inspiring thousands of digital volunteers to take positive action for nature. City…

At the Transformative Action for Nature and People event in New York in September 2021, game-changing new financing commitments for nature and people – including…

View Network News – October 2021. In this issue: NBN Conference – more speakers announced! Wildlife data from the NBN Atlas is key to tackling…

A group of the UK’s rarest lizard – the sand lizard – has been released back into the wild in Dorset. Over 140 of these…

A new initiative – Natur am Byth – to save rare species and reconnect communities with nature is getting off the ground in Wales. The shrill…

The NBN Trust is saddened to hear of the sudden death of Douglas Boyes. Douglas was the winner of the Newcomer Award in the 2020…

Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) is described by Natural England as, “an approach to development, and/or land management, that leaves nature in a measurably better state…

In its first look at careers in ecology & biodiversity, CJS Focus has a number of articles which give information on how to get into…

New research, published recently in the journal “Biological Invasions” by NBN Trustee – David Slawson – and his colleagues Nidhi Gupta and Andy Moffat, shows…

Civil Service Network for Nature (N4N) is a new community for civil servants who would like to use their allowance of up to three volunteering…

More than 12 months of collaboration between developers from the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) and the GBIF Secretariat has produced a major upgrade to…

An ambitious 30-year landscape-scale rewilding initiative to link up a majestic sweep of the Scottish Highlands as one vast nature recovery area connecting Loch Ness…

Bio-Dem, an open-source web-app for exploring temporal and spatial relationships between the availability of biodiversity data and the dimensions of democracy, has won first prize…

Two projects led by UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) are providing information for wildlife recorders to help them choose where to record -…

We are delighted to announce that after six months working as a contractor for the NBN Trust, Helen Manders Jones has accepted the role of…

Over the past month iNaturalistUK users have been busy recording wildlife for three different projects.   From 6 – 19 September the Natural History Museum ran its first Fat…