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The Better Biodiversity Data (BBD) project is continuing to work with its partners across Scotland to improve the biodiversity data infrastructure with the help of…

Chair of the NBN Trust, Neil Hodges, pays this tribute to Professor Sir John Lawton CBE FRS – Patron of the NBN Trust since November…

The NBN Trust is delighted to be receiving a Go Further, Faster award from Amazon Web Services’ inaugural 2023 IMAGINE Grant UK for Non-profits. Amazon…

View Network News – November 2023. In this issue: NBN Conference – time is running out to book! Vacancy – Biodiversity Data Officer (NBN Atlas)…

In May this year, the NBN Trust was delighted to be part of a Data Study Group with the Alan Turing Institute. The Data Study…

Two grant programmes – Nature Networks Fund and Local Places for Nature – are open for applications from communities and organisations in Wales. Nature Networks…

A new round of Government funding to protect the countryside in England has been announced by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra)…

Two grants are available to schools, community groups or non-profit organisations. British Science Week 2024 Grants Schools and community groups can apply for Kick Start…

We are pleased to say that it won’t be a final goodbye but, in October, we said farewell to Sophia Ratcliffe, the NBN Atlas Data…

Scotland’s west coast seas are a vitally important area for minke whales – with some of these spectacular but vulnerable marine mammals notching up Europe’s…

The national builders’ merchant, Jewson, is the first major national company to sign-up to Hedgehog Street’s  ‘Hedgehog Friendly Fencing’ campaign, which was launched in July.…

On the 20 October, the Natural History Consortium announced the results of EuroBioBlitz 2023. During the 48 hours of EuroBioBlitz, 64,397 records of wildlife were made on…

The Belgian-built GBIF Alert system – a flexible open-source system for notifying users about the availability of new occurrence records through GBIF – has won…

The NBN Trust is thrilled and excited that Butterfly Conservation has recently made over 46 million records of UK butterflies and moths publicly available on…

View Network News – October 2023. In this issue: NBN Conference – more speakers confirmed NBN Trust Annual Impact Report 2022/23 State of Nature 2023 Major…

Citizen science continues to make a substantial contribution to a wide variety of scientific disciplines by allowing the public to be involved in activities like…

Nature projects to revive England’s endangered species have been awarded £14.5m of funding by Natural England. Water voles in London and crayfish in North Yorkshire…

A two-part policy report by the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change describes the impacts of biodiversity loss on land and oceans for human health…

A new GBIF task group will address the urgent need for improved access to better data and information on invasive alien species in response to…

The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has published the results of its four-year Assessment on Invasive Alien Species and their Control.…