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Divers studying marine plants have spotted a sea snail not seen in Manx waters for almost two centuries. The grooved top shell snail, Jujubinus striatus,…

Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust is delighted to announce the launch of a new project, ‘More Data for Nature’ Aimed at understanding biodiversity trends across…

View Network News January 2020. In this issue: NBN Trust Strategy Review 2020 FAIRs FAIR support for NBN Atlas Retired NBN Trust Development Officer given…

Austria has become the latest country to launch a new biodiversity Atlas, with its beta version of Biodiversitäts-Atlas Österreich, being the latest Living Atlas site. The…

Jisc has launched an improved Jisc Geospatial data service, which will give universities and colleges access to licensed and open data, together with satellite imagery…

Over the last year, Greenspace information for Greater London (GiGL) has been working towards launching a brand new habitat database that covers the whole Greater…

The NBN Trust is developing its next five year strategy, to be launched in January 2021, and we would love to have your input. The…

Two, one day Conferences, organised by Caring for God’s Acre, will look at simple ways to explore the diversity in burial grounds and create a…

Data Science Festival (DSF) 2020 is almost here and the call for speakers is now open. Would you like to be part of the UK’s…

We are delighted to hear that Trevor James, the NBN Trust Development Officer from 2001 to 2014, has been awarded a British Empire Medal in…

The NBN Trust is delighted to announce that the NBN Atlas has been selected to receive support from FAIRsFAIR to improve the level of interoperability…

View Network News December 2019. In this issue: NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording NBN Conference 2019 NBN Trust Honorary Membership 2019 FAIR Data Principles The…

Improving the re-usability of NBN data holdings One of the NBN Conference 2019 Knowledge exchange sessions was about FAIR Data Principles.  Its aim was to…

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) estate is one of the largest in government, including prison, probation and Home Office buildings and land.  With a wide…

CJS Focus on the Next Generation is now available and published in association with Action for Conservation.  Action for Conservation provides the lead article about its…

The Mammal Society’s 66th Spring Conference is being held from 27 – 29 March 2020 at Robinson College, Cambridge. They are now calling for abstracts…

Written by Howard Bentley It is not easy to determine the exact date of origin of the Dipterists Forum because it didn’t spring into being…

Applications are now being accepted for small bursaries designed to help develop skills that will be used to support wildlife recording in Scotland. Since 2009,…

A new report published on Wednesday 20 November 2019 by People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) has revealed that Britain’s population of hazel dormice (Muscardinus…

Whilst it is usual to put forward a single nominee for Honorary Membership of the NBN Trust, this year, as with 2018, we received a…