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An innovative new website app to help people record sightings of the elusive Scottish wildcat has launched. Scottish Wildcat Action (SWA) – the first official…

Natural Environment Research Council has agreed to support up to five new Enterprise Fellowships to boost the development of new businesses from investments in environmental…

The Scottish Biodiversity Information Forum’s Advisory Group has this year undertaken to drive a review of the biological recording infrastructure in Scotland. This is being…

We are very excited to update you on what is turning into a spectacular line up for Communicate 2016: Swapping Spectacles. The final programme structure…

This month’s Network News update was going to be written by Joe, one of our trainees on the Identification Trainers for the Future traineeship programme,…

A peer reviewed paper has recently raised the question of open data and the NBN Secretariat wanted to remind its data partners of the approach the NBN…

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is looking for your help. Its task group on data fitness for use in research on invasive alien species (IAS)…

A five paper supplement on citizen science has been published in the open access journal BMC Ecology. These manuscripts present findings from the analysis of environmental and social data from Open…

View Network News August 2016. In this issue: NBN Conference -registration is open! The future of the NBN Gateway, the NBN Atlas and opening up access…

Earthwatch Europe is seeking innovators to pitch new and exciting ideas that aim to re-engage the public with nature, in a bid to win £5,000 seed…

The Vision for Nature report has been published by A Focus on Nature (the UK’s youth nature network). The report sets out how young people would like…

Over the coming months, a series of informative talks will be lead from the new Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Centre on Tobermory’s iconic Main Street;…

Following the introductory news article earlier this year, here we have a further update to the Brampton Parish Biodiversity Project. Brampton Parish lies in the western belt…

The 2016 GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge, which will focus on on understanding, examining and addressing gaps and biases in open-access biodiversity data from the GBIF…

The future of the NBN Gateway Since the NBN was formed 16 years ago, our community has shared over 127 million biological records; creating the…

After reviewing the eight proposed working groups, we have decided to merge the groups on Quality Control & Verification, Biological Recording Online and Improving Biological…

The country portals to the NBN Atlas continue to progress well. Wales We held the first Steering Group meeting for the NBN Atlas Wales on the…

For us ID Trainers it has been a hectic Month since Krisztina’s last blog. We are now deep into the workshop phase and in the…

View Network News July 2016. In this issue: UK Awards for Biological Recording and Information Sharing – don’t miss the deadline! Open Licencing of Local Species Data Grant…

The new NBN website launched in March 2016 and we would love your feedback and comments. The new website was upgraded to replace the previous version that…