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When development of the National Education Nature Park programme began in late 2022, the Department for Education commissioned research consultants Ecorys to produce an independent,…

In 2024, Butterfly Conservation and the University of York hosted a workshop to explore how to increase the diversity of people taking part in UK…

The Building Better Evidence for Nature partnership is an affiliation of organisations aiming to strengthen our collective environmental monitoring efforts across the UK. The group represents…

UKCEH (UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology) has announced a three-year partnership with the Aberdeen Group Charitable Trust to tackle the worldwide decline in insect biodiversity…

A new “Guide to using DNA-based monitoring with citizen science”, written by Lauren Cook (UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology) and Lynsey Harper (Natural England),…

As the UK’s national biodiversity data infrastructure, our mission is simple but essential: making data work for nature. Through the NBN Atlas – the UK’s…

Written by Chloe Griffiths November’s NBN conference provided me with the chance to meet, and subsequently interview, several people with fascinating views on motivation in…

This annual GBIF Challenge celebrates innovation of new and existing tools that leverage biodiversity data from the GBIF network to advance open science, research and…

The call for nominations for the 2026 GBIF:Global Biodiversity Information Facility Graduate Researchers Award is now open. This annual programme aims to foster innovative research…

Between April and September 2025, 137 charities, trusts and foundations that predominantly work on environmental, climate, nature or sustainability issues submitted data to The RACE…

BBC Winterwatch 2026, broadcast on 21 January 2026, had a feature on the Pine Marten (Martes martes) and included distribution maps from the NBN Atlas. You’ll…

View Network News – January 2026 In this issue: NBN Atlas upgraded NBN Atlas Wrapped NBN Atlas and BBD teams put us in the spotlight…

Across November and December 2025, the NBN Trust’s NBN Atlas and Better Biodiversity Data teams kept the spotlight on the Trust’s growing achievements. This included…

2025 was a record-breaking year for the number of animals reported to the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust (HWDT).  Over 100,000 individual whales, dolphins, porpoises…

Calling everyone who uses environmental data – your input is needed! A user research survey is currently running for a NERC / EDS project called…

Every year in December, iNaturalist produces annual usage stats – the Year in Review. iNaturalistUK Year in Review is an interactive web page which includes a…

During 2024 / 2025 two reports were carried out to help understand iNaturalistUK users and their observation records. The findings and final reports come from…

View Network News – December 2025 In this issue: NBN Award recipients 2025 Vacancy – Trustee to the NBN Trust Board Reflections on the NBN…

Advance notice to NBN Atlas users We’ll be performing essential maintenance on the NBN Atlas on Tuesday 9 December, between 07:30–09:00 GMT. During this time,…

Following our 25th NBN Conference, which was our new CEO Gareth Thomas’ first, we are pleased to share Gareth’s reflections on the day. The 2025…