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The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) has announced a funding call to increase participation and engagement in the biosciences amongst under-represented or minoritised…

Grants of between £250,000 and £1,000,000 are available for projects that restore or improve the built or natural environment. The Biffa Award Partnership Grants scheme…

UK Heritage Pulse is a collaborative data and insight project for the UK’s heritage sector informing strategy, recovery and reinvention. Organiser, the Heritage Fund, wants…

Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) is inviting applications for funding to pursue ambitious, high risk and high reward projects in environmental research. You must be:…

Over £25million is being awarded to projects creating and restoring natural habitats in England. Twenty projects will receive funding from the Species Survival Fund, a…

View Network News – March 2024. In this issue: NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording 2024 Farewell and thank you to our outgoing Trustees Exciting marine…

Through the Big Ideas pipeline, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) seeks to engage with the widest possible community to identify exciting, adventurous, and potentially transformative…

DASSH the flagship initiative of the Marine Biological Association (MBA) recently recorded an unusual sighting. Rissoides desmaresti, a species of Mantis Shrimp, was spotted by…

The GBIF Secretariat is seeking proposals from interested contractors to conduct a systematic review of scientific literature published between 2020 and 2024 that relies on…

The UKCEH Digital Strategy sets out the organisation’s ambition to realise the power of environmental data and digital technologies to inform and accelerate solutions to…

Following the arrival of our new Trustees in November, we sadly had to say goodbye to several Trustees who had been with us since 2018,…

In England, as of 12 February 2024, Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) is mandatory under Schedule 7A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as inserted by…

This spring, leading wildlife conservation charity People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) is calling for volunteers across the UK to take part in its popular annual Living with…

Are you between 11 and 16 years old?  Are you a die hard nature-lover, and a determined advocate?  If so, you could be featured in…

View Network News – February 2024. In this issue: NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording 2024 NBN Atlas Accelerator Project Vacancy – Full Stack Developer –…

The new Heritage 2033 National Lottery programme is open for grants from £10,000 to £10million. The application guidance and forms have been updated to reflect…

The Ebbe Nielsen Challenge, GBIF’s annual incentive competition, has opened the call with the aim of recognising innovative tools, both new and existing, that leverage biodiversity…

In 2023 the UKCEH Biological Records Centre/Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) Plant Atlas 2020 was published to general acclaim. The third such Atlas published…

The monitoring for nature recovery and local change resource library is now live on the JNCC website. It has been developed in partnership with Defra, the Environment Agency,…

The 46 Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty across England, Wales and Northern Ireland have changed their name to ‘National Landscapes’. This reflects ambitions for the…