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The 21st meeting of the GBIF Governing Board, meeting in New Delhi, has agreed a set of principles and next steps relating to the licensing…

New Tools for Impact Risk Zone (IRZ) Assessments Written by John M Patmore   Natural England has produced a way to identify the possible damage…

The NBN Trust is continually looking at how it can improve the NBN Gateway in terms of data upload, data access, data visualisation and data…

Do you love the UK’s wildlife and do you want to work to help inform its management and conservation? The National Biodiversity Network Trust is…

Thank you to all of you who completed the NBN Strategy Refresh questionnaire in August and September.  We were delighted by the response and have…

Applications and scholarship support for October 2015 entry are now open.   University of Cambridge MPhil degree in Conservation Leadership is a full-time, 11-month, masters…

NEW STATISTICS COURSE   This course will cover the concepts and R tools that can be used to analyse spatial data in ecology covering elementary…

NBN Data Capture Initiative 2014 The NBN Trust has been successful in a bid to the Government’s Release of Data Fund and has started work…

Written by John Sawyer, CEO, NBN Trust  j.sawyer@nbn.org.uk   “Facts are like people: they may be dull as individuals but they become interesting when you can look…

The NBN Trust spoke at a Data Deficits workshop organised by the British Ecological Society on 22 September 2014. This article is a summary of…

Thank you to everyone who recently completed the NBN Strategy questionnaire. We are delighted by the response, which has given us feedback from over 200…

The NBN’s Gateway User Group has now been established with a team of volunteers from around the UK. This team will represent the requirements of…

The NBN Gateway development team has been working hard to enable site layers to be added to the NBN Gateway and the ability to upload…

The National Forum for Biological Recording and the British Ecological Society Macroecology Special Interest Group have released a call for papers for their conference A…

View September 2014 NBN eNews In this issue: NBN Strategy workshops – register by 3rd October Project to increase open data holdings on NBN Gateway 100…

      100 million records help create one of the largest wildlife databases in the world   Image of 2-spot ladybird courtesy of North…

The NBN strategy refresh is well underway. Importantly this also involves reviewing how we engage and communicate about biodiversity and NBN stories. We have therefore…

A master’s student from Ireland helping to detect biases and identify gaps in biodiversity data has been selected as a winner of the GBIF Young…

Written by Rachel Stroud Image of the ever elusive Greenland White-fronted Goose c. Rachel Stroud 2008 Having recently returned from three weeks in western Greenland,…

Environmental citizen science traditionally involves members of the public submitting sightings of wildlife to NGOs or record centres, but emerging technologies have recently broadened its use to all…