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The Woodland Trust has launched a new website that shows which local authorities have declared a nature emergency and what steps they have taken to…

Legislative proposals to help restore nature and protect biodiversity in Scotland have been introduced to Parliament. The Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill, which will now be…

Several opportunities are currently available for funding and grants as detailed below. Please follow the links for the full information. Funding Available for Creative Youth-led…

Nature’s original master builder – the Eurasian beaver – is set to return to our waterways after centuries of absence, following a government decision to…

UKRI (Natural Environment Research Council and Economic and Social Research Council) is pleased to announce a set of free training resources for researchers interested in…

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…

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…