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High quality, current and accessible species data are essential to underpin environmental policy and land use planning. Implementing and evaluating outcomes from the Environment Bill,…

People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) is launching a new campaign to encourage people to create deadwood habitats in their gardens and green spaces. Deadwood…

Performance and stability problems Following our previous update on 7 April, we were provided with a number of recommendations by the specialist Solr company we…

The NBN Trust would like to request information from educational institutions that use records from the NBN Atlas. In the last year we have seen…

Environmental groups and government agencies are coming together to help halt the spread of Floating Pennywort, the invasive, non-native plant that presents a major threat…

Field Studies Council (FSC), has thousands of easy-to-use guides to send to people in England aged 16–25 and those working with this age group. FSC…

Many people are involved in the collation and use of marine biodiversity data – and together form a vital network with a shared desire to…

The international organisers of City Nature Challenge (The Natural History Museum Los Angeles County and California Academy of Sciences) have announced the final results for…

The North and East Yorkshire Ecological Data Centre (NEYEDC) is carrying out aerial drone mapping of two replanting schemes on the Escrick Park Estate as…

The Woodland Trust’s conservation research programme funds applied and policy driven research that addresses issues facing the conservation of the UK’s native woods and trees.…

For the first time, wildlife charity People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) is running its Living with Mammals survey throughout all of 2021, starting in May. PTES…

View Network News May 2021. In this issue: Nominations for the NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording 2021 have opened! Five new Trustees appointed to the…

As reported on last month, we are delighted that Helen Manders Jones has joined us for an initial three months working as a contract developer.…

We are delighted to announce that nominations for the 2021 NBN Awards for Wildlife recording are now open! Through these Awards the National Biodiversity Network…

Following our recruitment drive in March, we are pleased to announce that five new Trustees have been appointed to the NBN Trust Board. About the…

Written by Ellen Wilson, SBIF Chair Our wonderful friend and colleague Christine Johnston has retired but we cannot let her go without expressing our great…

Earlier this April, the journal ‘Citizen Science: Theory and Practice’ published an article on “The Verification of Ecological Citizen Science Data: Current Approaches and Future…

The wildlife charity, People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES), has launched its annual water vole survey, and is looking for volunteers in England, Scotland and…

View Network News April 2021. In this issue: iNaturalistUK officially launched NBN Atlas updates New lichen species to be named after John Sawyer Reflections on…

Performance and stability problems Over the last six months the records and species searches on the NBN Atlas have been running slowly and often failing…