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The next few years will be a crucial time for those recording, managing and using biodiversity data. Changes in information technology, reducing budgets and new…

The NBN Secretariat is delighted to announce that our new CEO, Jo Judge, will be joining us at the end of May. We are sure Jo…

To deliver the NBN Strategy, eight working groups are being set up to tackle actions identified as priorities by Network members in the recent round…

If you are reading this you have already found the all new, all singing and dancing NBN website, so thank you for visiting! This website…

The National Earthworm Recording Scheme has just published its 2015 recording scheme report. 2015 was the most productive year to date! They received 3,488 new earthworm records for…

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) has developed a UK Lakes Portal – a new online gateway to discover the lakes of the United Kingdom, linking data…

Help us raise money for four free registrations at the NBN Conference – and you don’t even need to do anything other than your normal shopping!!…

Butterfly Conservation is committed to sharing data to benefit nature conservation, public understanding and ecological research. After consultation with the butterfly and moth recording community…

It’s still pretty chilly outside, but the days are getting lighter and we can almost see BioBlitzing season on the horizon! If you are organising a…

The National Trust for Scotland has, in collaboration, with iRecord designed a new wildlife recording webpage where visitors to NTS properties can record the plants and animals…

Image: Small red damselfly (Erythromma viridulum m) – copyright Pam Taylor  The University of Exeter, National Biodiversity Network, and Centre for Ecology and Hydrology are jointly…

NFBR and BRC conference: National Recording Schemes and Societies – celebrating the past, looking to the future The National Forum for Biological Recording and the…

As a small team working closely with members of the Network on a wide range of areas across the Strategy, the NBN Secretariat is keen…

My name is Keiron Derek Brown and I am a biological recorder. Until 3 years ago I had submitted the odd record here and there,…

The Scottish Wildcat (Felis silvestris silvestris) is one of our most endangered mammals and our only remaining native cat. It urgently needs action to save…

The Nature Intelligence Unit is an open innovation project seeking to engage wider audiences in nature based citizen science. The project has hatched through a…

Can advances in the use of DNA technologies provide solutions for biodiversity assessment, conservation and environmental protection? David Matthews, a consultant, has launched a survey…

In November 2015 Ben Brown opened our survey on recorders and their motivations, and the response rate since then has been overwhelming! Thanks to the…

David Fenwick was the winner of the first ever David Robertson adult award, part of the UK Awards for Biological Recording and Information Sharing, as…

Written by Mike Waller I refuse to draw attention to how little time we have left – it simply makes me sad. But unfortunately it’s…