25 June 2013
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…
25 June 2013
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…
25 June 2013
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…
29 May 2013
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…
29 May 2013
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…
29 May 2013
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…
29 May 2013
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,…
29 May 2013
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…
29 May 2013
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…
28 May 2013
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…
28 May 2013
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…
28 May 2013
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…
28 May 2013
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…
13 May 2013
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…
24 April 2013
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…
24 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…
23 April 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…
23 April 2013
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…
23 April 2013
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…
22 April 2013
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…