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Written by Rich Burkmar, Field Studies Council Prior to starting work as a project officer with the Field Studies Council in 2013 I had worked…

Written by Chris Raper, Manager of the UK Species Inventory at the Natural History Museum, London. The latter half of 2014 has seen some excellent…

Most security patches for software tend to fix an obscure problem which might be a vulnerability only in some circumstances. However, when Drupal 7.32 was…

Inspiring the Next Generation of UK Wildlife Experts Identification Trainers for the Future is an exciting new project which is targeting the thorny question of…

At the annual RSPB Members’ Day in Birmingham on Saturday 25th October 2014, the RSPB Medal was awarded to the team behind the Bird Atlas…

Nature Near Me is a new project developed by Tom August at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology with the aim to make data held…

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…

Guidance has recently been produced by Defra and Natural England on what the biodiversity duty is, the activities it applies to, and how public authorities…

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…

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…

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…