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Mark the return of Spring by listening out for the cuckoo! For many, the distinctive sound of Spring is the call of the cuckoo.  Now,…

The North East Scotland Biodiversity Partnership is celebrating its 20th Anniversary this year as one of the four original pilot partnerships set up by government.…

Grant funding of £36k from Natural England during 2016/17 has enabled Local Environmental Records Centres and other local recording organisations to publish some of their…

Communication principles for the wildlife recording community. Recording wildlife is a great British tradition stretching back to the 1700s and the days of Gilbert White.…

Join expert tutors for a new programme of exciting introductory days, held at Edinburgh Zoo. 2017 sees the first courses in a new partnership between…

Hello! I’m Matt and I’m one of the new trainees for the Identification Trainers for the Future project at the Natural History Museum. The project…

Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial or CC-BY-NC licence One of the licences available for use on the NBN Atlas is the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial or…

Innovative Monitoring Approaches – funding call and brokerage events. Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) is inviting proposals for innovation projects focused on developing innovative monitoring…

Guidance for transfer, or direct submission, of historic data and data supplied by uncontactable data recorders to the NBN Atlas Individual data recorders have Intellectual…

The Environmental Science Impact Programme Call opens in May. Call open date: 3 May 2017 Closing date and time for outline proposals: 16:00 on 22 June 2017…

Natural Environment Research Council’s (NERC’s) Innovation Placements call (previously Innovation Internships) will open on 13th April and close on June 29th. NERC is inviting researchers…

View Network News March 2017. In this issue: NBN Atlas latest update SBIF Review questionnaire now open! NBN Atlas Update for Data Users NBN EasyMaps FSC…

With three weeks to go until the NBN Atlas goes live, here is the latest update on developments. User testing From 8th March user testing of…

PR Statistics is pleased to announce that through its funding scheme it can offer 5 part-funded scholarships for its upcoming course  – “Advances in Spatial Analysis…

BioLinks is an upcoming Field Studies Council biodiversity project which received development phase funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund.  A further application has been made…

Thousands of trees have been planted across England as part of the Capability Brown Festival, which last year celebrated the 300th anniversary of the birth…

Surveys at Trees for Life’s Dundreggan Conservation Estate near Loch Ness have revealed a range of rare species, including a midge never recorded in the…

SBIF Review of our biological recording infrastructure in Scotland (and beyond!) A questionnaire just launched by the Scottish Biodiversity Information Forum (SBIF) is seeking your…

The Festival of Nature gives wildlife lovers of all ages a unique opportunity to discover and enjoy the natural world. Spanning three event-filled weeks, the…

It has been a fantastic year for the five of us on the ‘Identification Trainers for the Future’ programme. We were fully immersed in working…