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Written by Dr Lorna Shaw, Biological Records Officer, Essex Wildlife Trust Essex Wildlife Trust was recently awarded funding from the NBN Trust to digitise river…

The NBN Secretariat team will be expanding over the coming months so that we can increase the pace of delivery of our programme of work.…

Introduction by Steph West – Identification Trainers for the Future Project Manager In our next update on the Identification Trainers for the Future Project, Chloe…

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…

A new map of Scotland’s land and freshwater habitats, adopting the European classification standard, has been unveiled by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH).    Based on…

Nominations are open for the Nature of Scotland Awards 2015. Now in their fourth year, these awards recognise the best of Scottish nature conservation and…

Collecting flowering time observations of UK orchids to research the impacts of climate change Image of Green-winged Orchid copyright Mike Waller Orchid Observers is a new…

At the NBN conference in November 2014 Peter Doherty (Program Manager for the Atlas of Living Australia) gave a presentation about the A$50 million worth…

  Written by Keith Balmer, Bedfordshire and Luton Biodiversity Recording and Monitoring Centre (BRMC)   The Bedfordshire and Luton Biodiversity Recording and Monitoring Centre (BRMC)…

Over the past few months you have heard quite a bit in the NBN eNews about the Identification Trainers for the Future project, but now…

A few months ago Google announced that they would be changing the way they ranked their search results on mobile phones. These changes have now…

Written by Christine Johnston, SBIF Co-ordinator On the 16th April 2015, the Scottish Biodiversity Information Forum (SBIF) held its first conference at the Battleby Conference…

Image – Buff tailed bumble bee copyright Friends of the Earth From 1st – 31st May, the Great British Bee Count will encourage UK citizens…

Fifteen years ago this month, on the 3 April 2000 to be exact, the NBN Trust was officially incorporated with Companies House. That means our…

NFRB & BES Macroecology Special Interest Group joint conference 2015 Conference report by Secretariat for the NBN New and familiar faces arrived at Sheffield University…

This Biodiversity Auditing POST Note was published at the end of March before parliament was prorogued. The NBN helped in the production of this Note, which…

The National Plant Monitoring Scheme (NPMS) is a new habitat-based plant monitoring scheme which is government backed and is being delivered by a partnership comprising…