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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…

Are you a wildlife photographer?  Do you have high quality images of UK wildlife?   The NBN Secretariat is currently seeking photographers to help bring…

We are excited to announce that this year’s NBN Conference will be held in Edinburgh on the 17th and 18th November 2016. NBN Conference theme The…

As the evenings are getting lighter and the days are getting warmer, we’re all starting to look forward to the survey season that will soon…

In the first post from the new ID Trainers for the Future, we hear from Joe Beale. Growing up in south-east London, green spaces have…

A further milestone in continued commitment to open data and data licensing has been reached. This month we are celebrating 160 data licenses that have…

Well, that’s it, my first group of trainees on the Identification Trainers for the Future project have left the Natural History Museum and are now…

People’s Trust for Endangered Species’ (PTES) annual Living with Mammals survey is calling for an army of volunteers to record the mammals they see in…

Exciting progress has been made in restructuring the way that biodiversity data are displayed across the UK.   Following the development of the NBN Atlas Scotland,…

The NBN Action Plan has now been published and is available to download. The NBN Secretariat really values the time that all consultees put into responding…

Following recent work by the Scottish Biodiversity Information Forum (SBIF) Steering Group to improve alignment between SBIF, Biological Recording in Scotland (BRISC) and the NBN,…

View NBN eNews March 2016. In this issue: New NBN website is here! New NBN Chief Executive LERC funding – NBN response 40,000 lakes at your…

In February this year Natural England announced withdrawal of funding to Local Environmental Records Centres (LERCs). At the time of this announcement, and since then,…