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News from The Open University A range of new features has been added to iSpot recently, with more on the way. The first of these…

New project launched by The Open University The latest citizen science project to be launched by The Open University is Treezilla – the Monster Map…

The chairman of the National Forum for Biological Recording, Graham Walley, announced on Monday 22nd July that the Forum has achieved charitable status. Originally founded…

  iSpot, the website for sharing and learning more about nature, has just captured its 250,000th observation.  The honour is shared by simultaneous observations of…

The title is taken from a recent article which appeared in the British Ecological Society's 'Bulletin'. It is written by Dr Helen Roy of the…

Download June 2013 NBN eNews In this issue: Garden BioBlitz and iRecord – participant views Grasshoppers and related insects – new atlas and call for…

Ladybirds were in the spotlight earlier this month with a TV feature on BBC Breakfast. Helen Roy, Biological Record Centre's Coordinator of Ecological Data &…

Eyelash fungus c. Jacob Jackson The Garden BioBlitz took place across the UK on the weekend of 1st and 2nd June.  Following promotion on BBC…

In 1943, Field Studies Council’s founders gathered at the Natural History Museum in London to realise a vision ‘to provide opportunities for school children to…

Article written by Zoë Randle, Surveys Officer at Butterfly Conservation The Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey (WCBS), launched in 2009, represents the first UK-wide survey of…

Grasshoppers and related insects – new atlas and call for records (Image of Chorthippus parallelus-Meadow Grasshopper courtesy of Paula Lightfoot) The Orthoptera and Allied Insects…

The sixth and final round of funding for a national campaign that aims to plant one million trees by 2015 has opened and organisations have…

Are your trees in good shape? Become a tree investigator with the OPAL Tree Health Survey The Open Air Laboratories’ (OPAL) seventh nature survey, Tree…

To kick off its centenary celebrations the British Ecological Society has launched its Festival of Ecology website. With a diary of events and a clickable…

Mobile phone app to help monitor UK’s native ladybirds after foreign invasion (7-Spot image courtesy of Helen Roy) ‘iRecord Ladybirds’ a free mobile phone app…

Hot Water, an exciting new national film competition from Cool it Schools, invites young people and students to make a film, under 50 seconds long,…

The inaugural State of Nature report, is the first of its kind to document the status and population trends of animals and plants in the…

Download May 2013 NBN eNews In this issue: Ready, steady…BioBlitz! Big Nature Day 2013 State of Nature report NBN Gateway to deliver INSPIRE compliance for…

The INSPIRE obligation The Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) Directive aims to make it easier to access and combine environmental spatial datasets held…

On BBC Springwatch on Thursday 30th May, Chris Packham, Martin Hughes-Games and Michaela Strachan will race to find as many species as possible in one…