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We have now completed Phase 1 of the Traineeship. This was completed in week 6 with a day visit to the Biological Records Centre in…

Forty-five people attended the launch of the NBN Atlas Scotland at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh (RBGE), on the afternoon of Friday 27th May 2016. This milestone…

2016 is the 30th anniversary of the National Forum for Biological Recording and the 20th anniversary of the Biological Recording courses run by Manchester Metropolitan…

The Young Darwin Scholarship 2016 is open for applications. This is an amazing opportunity for young people in year 11 or 12 who have are…

The Young Researchers Award (YRA) is an annual award aimed at fostering innovative research and discovery in biodiversity informatics by encouraging graduate students to use GBIF-mediated data.…

The first issue of the brand new Network News is out!  With a revamped look and feel, it still has the same great news and…

Conservation Evidence, a new website, is a free, authoritative information resource designed to support decisions about how to maintain and restore global biodiversity. Here you…

The need to clarify data flows, and also to celebrate the commitment of NBN data partners to sharing their data as part of our national…

The iRecord online recording system aims to support the collection and verification of biological records, and has the ability to pass records swiftly to the…

Contribute and you could be credited in a brand new anniversary Journal release! Gilbert White’s observational recordings of nature and wildlife in the 18th century…

The Earthworm Society of Britain (ESB) actively encourages the use of its data and hopes that it can be used to further the current understanding of…

The People’s Trust for Endangered Species is asking for our help in recording two species – the Stag Beetle and Water Vole. Spotted a stag…

Life as an ‘ID trainer for the Future’ has been fully packed with a variety of activities and information. We have had an amazing experience…

Keiron Brown from the Field Studies Council Biodiversity team tells us about a project the FSC is planning, called BioLinks. BioLinks is an exciting new Heritage Lottery…

The National Biodiversity Network (NBN) is accepting nominations for the 2016 UK awards to celebrate biological recording and information sharing. These awards have been developed by the National…

View NBN eNews April 2016. In this issue: Aligning the work of SBIF, BRISC and the NBN NBN Conference and Awards 2016 What a month…

The Nature of Scotland Awards 2016 are now open for entries! Celebrating excellence, innovation and outstanding achievement in Scottish nature conservation, nominations are welcomed across…

Climate opportunists: a threat to UK biodiversity and ecosystems? As reported in February, the University of Exeter, in partnership with the National Biodiversity Network (NBN)…

Online booking is now open for the National Forum for Biological Recording and Biological Records Centre conference. The Conference theme is National Recording Schemes and Societies -…

The Edinburgh University Citizen Science and Crowdsourced Data and Evidence Network are hosting a mini-symposium on the 28th April. At the event, Christine Johnston, newly…