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A few months ago Google announced that they would be changing the way they ranked their search results on mobile phones. These changes have now…

Written by Christine Johnston, SBIF Co-ordinator On the 16th April 2015, the Scottish Biodiversity Information Forum (SBIF) held its first conference at the Battleby Conference…

Image – Buff tailed bumble bee copyright Friends of the Earth From 1st – 31st May, the Great British Bee Count will encourage UK citizens…

Fifteen years ago this month, on the 3 April 2000 to be exact, the NBN Trust was officially incorporated with Companies House. That means our…

NFRB & BES Macroecology Special Interest Group joint conference 2015 Conference report by Secretariat for the NBN New and familiar faces arrived at Sheffield University…

This Biodiversity Auditing POST Note was published at the end of March before parliament was prorogued. The NBN helped in the production of this Note, which…

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…

View NBN eNews April 2015   In this issue: NBN draft Strategic Action Plan 2015-2020 released for comment Orchid observers UK implementation of Atlas of…

Collecting flowering time observations of UK orchids to research the impacts of climate change Image of Green-winged Orchid copyright Mike Waller Orchid Observers is a new…

At the NBN conference in November 2014 Peter Doherty (Program Manager for the Atlas of Living Australia) gave a presentation about the A$50 million worth…

  Written by Keith Balmer, Bedfordshire and Luton Biodiversity Recording and Monitoring Centre (BRMC)   The Bedfordshire and Luton Biodiversity Recording and Monitoring Centre (BRMC)…

The Scottish Biodiversity Information Forum (SBIF) launched their new publication Making the Most of Biodiversity Data at their Spring Conference on the 16th April 2015…

The Action Plan describes the 104 actions that the NBN Secretariat and Network members have proposed are necessary to achieve the Network’s vision, aims and…

Vote for your local wildlife by taking part in the People’s Trust for Endangered Species ‘Living with Mammals’ survey.   As General Election fever mounts…

View NBN eNews March 2015 In this issue: Summary of your responses to the draft NBN Strategy 2015-2020 Pretty in pink, a new springtail to…

Identification Trainers for the Future Update – our trainees have arrived! Written by Steph West, Project Manager – Identification Trainers for the Future, Angela Marmont Centre for…

As many of you may be aware, the NBN received funding in 2014 from the Cabinet Office via their Release of Data fund to mobilise…

Written by Kyle Copas, GBIF The 80 million specimens in the Natural History Museum, London, comprise one of the world’s most important scientific collections—a repository…

Conference report by the NBN Trust A large and diverse group of people gathered on Saturday 21st March 2015 at the Ulster Museum in Belfast…

Written by Ben Deed Merseyside BioBank is the Local Environmental Records Centre for North Merseyside. Opened in 2007 the initial project focused heavily on establishing…