Latest stories from our Network

Written by Martin Harvey, John van Breda and David Roy The Biological Records Centre (BRC) maintains a central database to store records arriving from a…

Written by Steve Whitbread, Northamptonshire Biodiversity Records Centre NBN’s first Data Capture Initiative yielded a wide variety of datasets, indicative of just how much historic data remains…

Written by Anthony Roach I’m Anthony, another of the Identification Trainees who is delighted to part of the Skills for the Future Traineeship based at…

September 2015 – August 2016 Fieldwork and other out-of classroom learning experiences are increasingly being recognised across the curriculum as a highly valuable tool in…

Image of Kenfig NNR, copyright Natural Resources Wales Thousands of ‘citizen scientists’ are to be trained to monitor and protect marine life around the UK’s…

Defra's data reserves will be released to create opportunities for people in the UK making their living from food, farming and the environment   Vast…

“The most significant barrier to digitisation [is] …lack of funding. Put simply, digitisation cannot happen without significant financial support, usually from an external body.” JISC Digitisation…

Progress on the Consultants Portal is now well underway after the appointment of a part-time Consultants Portal Officer, Ella Vogel, by the NBN Trust in…

Written by Teresa Frost, manager of Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre  I started recording moths in my back garden two years ago. Anyone who, like me, gets…

Written by John Sawyer, CEO, NBN Trust   Tim Berners-Lee summed up a large part of what the National Biodiversity Network is about in this single quote…

Written by Dr Lorna Shaw, Biological Records Officer, Essex Wildlife Trust Essex Wildlife Trust was recently awarded funding from the NBN Trust to digitise river…

The NBN Secretariat team will be expanding over the coming months so that we can increase the pace of delivery of our programme of work.…

Introduction by Steph West – Identification Trainers for the Future Project Manager In our next update on the Identification Trainers for the Future Project, Chloe…

Nature lovers can now get involved with citizen science across the United Kingdom People of all ages can now contribute to scientific research in their…

Once a familiar sight along our waterways, water voles have rapidly disappeared from much of the landscape, experiencing the most serious decline of any wild…

BioD Services Ltd was set up to help the NBN Trust develop the Network through contractual work and was incorporated as a company limited by…

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has announced support for the UK-wide biodiversity project – Polli:Nation, a programme which supports schools and communities in helping to…

A new map of Scotland’s land and freshwater habitats, adopting the European classification standard, has been unveiled by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH).    Based on…

Nominations are open for the Nature of Scotland Awards 2015. Now in their fourth year, these awards recognise the best of Scottish nature conservation and…

The National Plant Monitoring Scheme (NPMS) is a new habitat-based plant monitoring scheme which is government backed and is being delivered by a partnership comprising…