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HLF is consulting on its role, vision and funding priorities for the next five years A unique opportunity is now open for everyone who cares…

Strategic Planning for Landscape-Scale Conservation Symposium 2018. The Bat Conservation Trust is planning an event in 2018 in London (venue TBC) aiming to share knowledge…

A consortium formed by BIO Innovation Service, Ibercivis and the Natural History Museum in London is developing an inventory of environmental citizen science initiatives taking…

View Network News February 2018. In this issue: NBN Atlas Wales Stakeholder Engagement Day NBN Honorary Member receives MBE! TVERC small grant scheme Blogs from…

Surveys at Trees for Life’s Dundreggan Conservation Estate in Glenmoriston near Loch Ness have revealed a rare money spider in a find described by experts…

At least half the population of our native hedgehogs has been lost from the British countryside over the last two decades, warn two wildlife charities…

The conference is being held on the 27th and the 28th of April at the University of Worcester. This two-day event brings together a range…

Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre (TVERC) offers a small grant scheme in partnership with the Trust for Oxfordshire’s Environment (TOE2). Applications are invited from projects that…

The BIG Biodiversity Challenge to ‘do one thing’ invites you to add one new biodiversity enhancement to your construction site, development or existing building.  The 2018…

We are delighted to announce that Professor Helen Roy has been recognised in the New Year Honours list 2018! Helen, who was given Honorary Membership of the…

Applications are open for the Postgraduate Certificate in Ecological Survey Techniques for September 2018 entry with the next admissions round closing on 9 March 2018.…

Citizen science and crowdsourcing enable the public to make meaningful contributions to scientific and engineering research and monitoring. These approaches also produce accurate data to…

Introducing the Citizen Science Global Partnership Abstract Professional science alone cannot provide information at the scales and resolutions necessary to understand environmental change. The dominant…

NERC is inviting the environmental science community to submit new ideas for highlight topics. NERC would welcome ideas from both researchers and those who use…

View Network News January 2018. In this issue: SBIF Review: workshop on Funding Options NBN Sensitive Species Policy NBN Atlas helps in the discovery of…

The fourth (and final) in our series of workshops aimed at identifying and evaluating different scenarios for the re-design of the biological recording infrastructure in…

Welcome the official start of phase 4, welcome planning for nature live and frosty mornings. Welcome December. This month we have well and truly been…

The NBN Atlas has a system whereby records of species that are deemed sensitive are made available at a reduced resolution, reducing the risk of…

This document describes the National Biodiversity Network’s (NBN) Sensitive Species Policy. The policy provides a framework for a standardised, agreed and defensible, method of handling sensitive species data on…

Last November, Sophia Ratcliffe, Technical & Data Partner Support Officer at the NBN received an email from Dr. Manuel Caballer Gutierrez of the Muséum National…