Last funding round for Big Tree Plant

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…

OPAL Tree Health Survey

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…

iRecord ladybirds phone app

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 – film competition

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,…

State of Nature report published

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…

May 2013 NBN eNews

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…

Ready, Steady…Bioblitz!

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…

Heathland Surveillance Network Pilot

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…

ERCCIS launches ORKS

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…

New studies use data for research

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 April 2013

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…

Derek Yalden (1940-2013)

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…

NFBR Conference review

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…

TVERC achieves accreditation

Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre has become the latest Local Environmental Records Centre (LERC) to become accredited.  LERC accreditation is administered by the Association of…

New NBN Web Services

NBN web services provide a way of embedding data and maps from the NBN Gateway into other systems and websites.  Web services are used by…

Garden Bioblitz Goes National

First, what’s a Bioblitz? I think one of the best descriptions I’ve heard is that it’s a kind of ‘Time Team’ for wildlife: people descend…

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