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The National Biodiversity Network is devastated to announce the untimely death of its CEO, John Sawyer, who died of a heart attack on Friday 6th…

In September we introduced Ben Brown, a BBSRC-funded PhD student joining the NBN for a three-month internship. Having started last week, the project is now…

Image courtesy of Paula Lightfoot The National Forum for Biological Recording celebrates its 30th anniversary next year and is organising two events to bring recorders…

The Consultants Portal has been designed as a place for environmental consultants and other biological recording professionals to share their biological records. It functions as…

Written by John Sawyer and Rachel Stroud, NBN Secretariat E: j.sawyer@nbn.org.uk The efficient flow of data from a recorder to a data user is of paramount…

Over the last few months the NBN Secretariat has been expanding in order for us to increase the pace of delivery of our programme of…

View NBN eNews October 2015   In this issue: Draft NBN Strategy for data sharing with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility Early bird deadline and more…

Written by Rachel Stroud, NBN Secretariat E: rachelstroud.nbn@gmail.com Summary The following article outlines the proposal to resume data sharing between the NBN and the Global…

As you are no doubt aware, the National Biodiversity Network, in conjunction with the National Forum for Biological Recording and the Biological Records Centre, has established a new…

Written by: Rachel Stroud and John Sawyer, NBN Secretariat E: r.stroud@nbn.org.uk   On the 25th September, 58 members of the National Biodiversity Network (NBN) met to…

NBN Atlas Scotland now live The beta version of the NBN Atlas Scotland, which will also serve as a pilot for a UK-wide roll out of new data…

Over the last 12 months the NBN Secretariat has undertaken a review of data licensing on the NBN Gateway. This was done at a number…

New UK awards for biological recording   Written by John Sawyer, CEO, NBN Trust j.sawyer@nbn.org.uk Twitter: @_JohnSawyer   The National Biodiversity Network, in conjunction with the…

The NBN Crowdsourcing Data Capture Summit    With just over two weeks to go to the NBN Crowdsourcing Data Capture Summit and over 40 people…

Written by Lizzy Arnold, NBN Data Project Officer   The NBN Secretariat is currently building a database of all biological recording schemes and surveys in the…

Written by Christine Johnston, Scottish Biodiversity Information Forum Co-ordinator The Scottish Biodiversity Information Forum (SBIF) has this year been working on developing a National Data Flow Pathway…

Contributors’ stories sought Ben Brown wants to hear your perspectives on the changing biological recording landscape   The NBN Strategy 2015-2020 and accompanying Action Plan…

Written by Lizzy Arnold   Hi, I’m Lizzy. I’m a student studying BSc Environmental Management at Bangor University and I have recently completed my summer…

Written by Lizzy Arnold, NBN Data Project Officer This year marks fifteen years since the National Biodiversity Network Trust was set up as an independent…

Following the release of the new NBN Strategy 2015-2020 in July 2015 the NBN Secretariat has begun work to facilitate its implementation through delivery of…