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NBN Strategy 2015 – 2020 now published   Written by John Sawyer, CEO, NBN Trust E: j.sawyer@nbn.org.uk  Twitter: @_JohnSawyer   Over the last 12 months…

Written by Tim Corner, Manager – Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre (BRERC)                          …

This one-day Summit will seek to kick-start collaborations to mobilise the National Biodiversity Network’s extensive undigitised data holdings using crowdsourcing platforms. It will bring together…

Summary of feedback This is a summary of feedback to the draft NBN Strategic Action Plan 2015-2020. The NBN Secretariat is processing all responses to…

NBN Atlas Scotland now under construction The NBN Trust is now building the NBN Atlas Scotland, which will also serve as a pilot for a UK-wide roll…

Do you have data on the NBN Gateway? Help us start implementing the NBN’s new five year strategy by completing our questionnaire The NBN Secretariat…

Written by Dr Quentin Groom, National Botanical Garden, Meise, Belgium www.botanicgarden.be Himalayan Balsam image c. GBNNSS   Invasive species can be a serious threat to the conservation…

Members of the public are being asked to help University of Aberdeen researchers pinpoint just how far a species, that wound up in the UK…

View NBN eNews May 2015. In this issue: The Value of Local Environmental Records Centre data on the NBN Gateway to Recorders It’s good to…

View NBN eNews July 2015   In this issue: New Zealand Flatworm Survey Defra's data reserves to be released Data, Data, Everywhere… Consultants Portal Project…

Written by Steve Whitbread, Northamptonshire Biodiversity Records Centre NBN’s first Data Capture Initiative yielded a wide variety of datasets, indicative of just how much historic data remains…

Written by Anthony Roach I’m Anthony, another of the Identification Trainees who is delighted to part of the Skills for the Future Traineeship based at…

September 2015 – August 2016 Fieldwork and other out-of classroom learning experiences are increasingly being recognised across the curriculum as a highly valuable tool in…

Image of Kenfig NNR, copyright Natural Resources Wales Thousands of ‘citizen scientists’ are to be trained to monitor and protect marine life around the UK’s…

Defra's data reserves will be released to create opportunities for people in the UK making their living from food, farming and the environment   Vast…

“The most significant barrier to digitisation [is] …lack of funding. Put simply, digitisation cannot happen without significant financial support, usually from an external body.” JISC Digitisation…

Progress on the Consultants Portal is now well underway after the appointment of a part-time Consultants Portal Officer, Ella Vogel, by the NBN Trust in…

Written by Martin Harvey, John van Breda and David Roy The Biological Records Centre (BRC) maintains a central database to store records arriving from a…

Written by Teresa Frost, manager of Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre  I started recording moths in my back garden two years ago. Anyone who, like me, gets…

Written by John Sawyer, CEO, NBN Trust   Tim Berners-Lee summed up a large part of what the National Biodiversity Network is about in this single quote…