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Profile – Professor Michael Hassell CBE FRS I felt greatly honoured when approached to be Chairman of the NBN Trust.  Recording the UK’s plants, animals…

Young Researcher's Award – Opportunity to submit an application The main objective of the Young Researcher's Award (YRA) is to foster innovative research and discovery…

Download Christmas 2011 eNews In this issue: Data access controls consultation update Defra contract 2011 – 2014 New website – now live! NBN conference report…

Consultation on changes to the NBN Gateway access controls and download functionality. The initial phase of this consultation is now complete. There was an excellent…

Pilot delivery of structured local habitat surveillance by a local partnership on behalf of Natural England Natural England is inviting tenders for the above project.…

New look website aims to simplify finding all the information available through the NBN If you are reading this article then you will have already…

OPAL takes home runner-up trophy at prestigious Lottery Award The Open Air Laboratories project (OPAL) was recognised as one of the UK’s best environment projects…

Yorkshire Naturalists Union has recently launched the South Yorkshire Plant Atlas The Atlas covers the 1665 whole or part 1km squares of the old Metropolitan…

DEFRA continues to invest in the NBN We are pleased to announce that Defra are continuing their long-term strategic investment in the National Biodiversity Network…

The NBN Trust and JNCC recently co-hosted two workshops on the use of available tools for managing biodiversity data.  The workshops took place in Edinburgh…

My Biological Recording As far as my memory tells me, I have always had an interest in wildlife. My earliest recollections are of the feral…

Evolution or revolution? – the impact of technologies on biological recording Report on the 11th annual conference of the National Biodiversity Network The NBN has…

Download October 2011 eNews In this issue: NBN Gateway – new version launched Instant Indicia – online recording made easier NBN Conference – last chance…

Curiosity and the ‘spiders web’ I grew up in the backwaters of a quiet corner of what was Cumberland, and now see that my early…

Meeting tomorrow’s recorders at the BBC Gardeners’ World Live Show Given the UK’s wonderful historical pedigree of biological recording, we may be forgiven for thinking…

Curracag, the Outer Hebrides Natural History Society is a long established Group formed in 1978 to protect and enhance the Natural History of the Outer…

Small grants are available to contribute to the British Ecological Society’s Festival of Ecology in 2013 In 2013 The British Ecological Society (BES) will celebrate…

Do you know your hoverfly from your harvestman? New bugs app launched by the Natural History Museum and OPAL Are beetles true bugs? And is…

One of the latest datasets to be uploaded to the NBN Gateway is the Leicestershire and Rutland Selected Non-Native Invasive Plants  One of the species…

New functionality available with NBN Gateway version 4.1 Interactive mapping tool includes Ordnance Survey maps The interactive mapping tool now includes Ordnance survey maps as…