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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…