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The Planning and Infrastructure Act is a key part of the government’s plan to secure sustained economic growth and get Britain building again. The Nature…

The Jersey International Centre of Advanced Studies (JICAS) is a postgraduate research centre that focuses on islands and island communities. Its flagship programme is an MSc…

We are delighted to announce that IQUW Group, our headline corporate partner from 2025, has confirmed its continued collaboration with the NBN Trust for 2026.…

We sadly said farewell to Christine Tansey on Friday 27 February, who had served as the Biodiversity Data Manager since September 2025. Christine initially joined…

Every month, our NBN Atlas Data Team processes new and updated datasets from some of our 200 data partners, across the UK. These contributions -…

View Network News – February 2026 In this issue: Nominations for the NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording 2026 are open! Biodiversity data updates on the…

Through the NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording the National Biodiversity Network Trust recognises significant achievements and celebrates successes in wildlife recording in the UK. Nominations…

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…