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Public Policy Event – Tackling the Decline in Pollinating Insects: Boosting Community Partnerships and Engagement Nationwide. 12th October, Central London. The beauty and biodiversity of the…

First of all a big thank you to everyone who completed our wide-ranging information gathering questionnaire, which closed on 7th April 2017. The members of…

For the Identification Trainers for the Future, May has been absolutely packed with workshops! It all kicked off with a foray into mosses, ferns and…

The Innovation Follow-on Call: Enabling innovation in the UK and developing countries opened on JeS 24th May 2017 and closes at 16.00 hours on 12th July…

Natural Environment research Council (NERC) is inviting proposals for innovation projects focused on developing innovative monitoring approaches. Projects should be challenge-led, focusing on the application…

View Network News May 2017.  In this issue: Nominations for the 2017 UK Awards are open! NBN Atlas Update – April 2017 Introducing a new…

The BIG BIodiversity Challenge to ‘Do One Thing’ invites you to add one new biodiversity enhancement to your site. Join the movement to protect and…

*** Nominations are now closed for 2017. Thank you to everyone who submitted a nomination.*** These annual Awards celebrate the individuals, the newcomers and the…

Natural England and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) have launched a new online database and analytical tool called Pantheon, which will help us…

Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) has commissioned additional survey work to provide an up-to-date estimate of beaver family numbers in Tayside. This work follows from Environment…

Did you know that over the last century the water vole has experienced the most severe decline of any wild mammal in the UK? In…

My name is Jonathan Fenn, and I am currently undertaking a 3-month work placement at the National Biodiversity Network office in Nottingham. This placement is…

As you may recall during 2016 we undertook a review of the Membership scheme. The outcome of the review is contained within ‘NBN Trust Membership…

Our trainees have been extremely busy over the last month, with a few changes going on within the group too so I thought I would…

Transfers from NBN Gateway In total 701 datasets (71.8% of the 977 datasets publicly available on the Gateway), containing 55.6 million records were transferred from…

View Network News April 2017. In this issue: NBN Atlas is live! SBIF Review questionnaire – last few days to respond NBN EasyMaps available for…

An opportunity recently arose for the NBN to create a display for the John Hope Gateway, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh’s biodiversity and information centre.…

Since its initial release in 2014 the FSC TomBio plugin for QGIS has provided a convenient access to NBN distribution maps and records from within…

The NBN Secretariat is delighted to announce that the NBN Atlas is a finalist in the 2017 CIEEM Awards. The CIEEM Awards are a celebration…

As you will hopefully be aware, the NBN Atlas and NBN Atlas Wales went live on 1st April.  The NBN Gateway was turned off at…