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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…

Written by Katy Potts, ID Trainers for the Future Welcome to the next update from the Identification trainers for the future programme. I’m Katy and…

Written by Caroline Coleman & Lucy Lush, Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre   How would you know where to find different grasslands or other habitats such as…

Alan Stewart Nominated by: National Forum for Biological Recording Having been interested in natural history since childhood (first with birds, then plants, then insects), Alan has…

Over the last 12 months members of the National Biodiversity Network have been working together to develop a new five-year strategy. That document has now…

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…

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 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…

Nature lovers can now get involved with citizen science across the United Kingdom People of all ages can now contribute to scientific research in their…

Once a familiar sight along our waterways, water voles have rapidly disappeared from much of the landscape, experiencing the most serious decline of any wild…

BioD Services Ltd was set up to help the NBN Trust develop the Network through contractual work and was incorporated as a company limited by…

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has announced support for the UK-wide biodiversity project – Polli:Nation, a programme which supports schools and communities in helping to…