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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 &…

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…

Another survey network? Lowland heathlands are one of the rarest habitats on the planet and we’re lucky enough in the UK to house a significant…

On 1 May 2013 the Environmental Records Centre for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (ERCCIS) launched its new online recording system “On-line Recording Kernow…

GBIF enables global forecast of climate impacts on species Climate change could dramatically reduce the geographic ranges of thousands of common plant and animal species…

NBN eNews gets a stylish new look We have re-vamped and re-designed NBN eNews to give it a new look. The new styling reflects the…

Several new data entry forms have been added to iRecord recently in response to user requests.  These offer increasing flexibility to accommodate the many different…

Derek was a pupil at Surbiton County Grammar School (Surrey) in the late 1950s.  From here he progressed to University College London (UCL) and graduated…

There were well over 60 people in attendance at the National Federation for Biological Recording's (NFBR's) annual Conference at the splendid venue of the Royal…