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Download July 2013 eNews In this issue: Update on release of NBN Gateway version 5 New NBN Record Cleaner Rules now available Verifying and sharing…

I’ve always loved taking photographs, but when my wildlife interest in “all things small” started to take hold a few years ago the one thing…

As we reported in the March issue of eNews, the release of the new NBN Gateway was delayed due to performance issues caused by insufficient…

The Biological Records Centre (BRC) is carrying out trials of online verification of biological records, using the iRecord system as a test for online verification…

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,…