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People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) and Royal Holloway University of London have joined forces to launch a new national beetle survey, in order to…

View Network News May 2019. In this issue: NBN Awards 2019 are open for nominations! NBN Conference 2020 survey Beta NBN Atlas Northern Ireland has…

Jamie Cranston, a PhD student, co-supervised by the University of Exeter, BRC and the NBN, is currently working on a study exploring recorders’ attitudes to…

View Network News April 2019 In this issue: NBN Trust is awarded £190,500 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund Job vacancy – NBN Atlas Project…

Eden Smith, a specialist data & analytics staffing & consulting business based in London, is passionate about helping businesses make sense of their data.  Identifying…

As spring approaches, wildlife charity People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) is calling for volunteers to take part in the annual Living with Mammals survey.…

Written by Christine Johnston, NBN Atlas Project Officer Apart from holding species data, the NBN Atlas can also hold spatial data layers such as boundary,…

The NBN Atlas has recently been selected as an example of good practice by BID-REX partners. BID-REX aims to enhance natural value preservation through improved…

A speckled wood butterfly has become the 1.5 millionth wildlife record logged in North East Scotland. Spotted by a local butterfly recorder near Banchory, the…

  Today the National Biodiversity Network Trust (NBN Trust), a charity that promotes and facilitates the collection, sharing and use of wildlife data, has received…

View Network News March 2019. In this issue: The NBN Trust has a new Chair NBN Conference 2019 – save the date! Biodiversity in Planning…

Woodland Survey Handbook: Collecting Data for Conservation in British Woodland How do you record the wildlife in a wood? This book explains ways to record…

We have recently added the NBN to the Virgin Money Giving site, which provides our supporters with another way of donating and raising funds for…

Biodiversity in Planning is a partnership of 19 organisations representing the conservation, planning and development sectors, who are working together to simplify, streamline and improve…

Data Science Festival is a week of free to attend data talks across London. It features top tech companies, over 2000 data enthusiasts and is…

The Earthworm Society of Britain (ESB) is proud of its open data policy, allowing open access to its earthworm records with no constraints to the…

The Northern February red stonefly has its global stronghold in the Scottish Highlands and has only ever been found in two rivers outside Scotland -…

Written by Neil Hodges, NBN Trust Chair I took over from Michael Hassell as Chair at the February board meeting. It is always difficult to…

View Network News February 2019. In this issue: SBIF Review – Picturing the future Species experts needed Year of Green Action 2019 New GBIF Executive…

On 31 January, Environment Secretary, Michael Gove, launched the Year of Green Action.  This is a year-long drive to get more people from all backgrounds…