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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…

Booking is now open for this year’s NFBR conference which will be held at the Nottingham Conference Centre on Friday the 5th May. Conference theme…

Our fantastic Essex Wildlife Trust volunteer River Wardens were very busy in 2016, and the project has been more successful than we could have hoped…

Wildlife recording in the UK is a triumph of public contribution to our collective knowledge of the natural world. Devoted volunteers and enthusiasts generate vast…

As you hopefully all know, the NBN Gateway will be decommissioned on the 31st March 2017 and the new NBN data sharing infrastructure, the NBN…

The NBN’s EasyMap service, provided by the NBN Gateway, has enabled users to install NBN maps on a website using one line of HTML.  It…