5 April 2016
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…
NBN Conference, NBN Conference 2015, UK Awards for biological recording
5 April 2016
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…
5 April 2016
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…
5 April 2016
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…
CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, CCO, Data flow pathway, data license, OGL, share data
5 April 2016
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…
5 April 2016
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…
4 April 2016
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,…
23 March 2016
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…
23 March 2016
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,…
21 March 2016
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…
10 March 2016
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,…
10 March 2016
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…
10 March 2016
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…
10 March 2016
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…
8 March 2016
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…
8 March 2016
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…
8 March 2016
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…
CEH, freshwater, lakes, portal
8 March 2016
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!!…
8 March 2016
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…
1 March 2016
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…