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British Dragonfly Society appoints its first Chief Executive The British Dragonfly Society (BDS) has announced the appointment of its first Chief Executive, Gary Roberts. BDS…

Earlier this year, JNCC announced that they wanted to identify a private sector partner to provide the central support and maintenance for Recorder 6.  We…

OPAL earthworm data on NBN Gateway The first dataset to come from the OPAL project is now available on the Gateway. The OPAL Soil and…

Corfe Mullen BioBlitz 2011 Corfe Mullen in Dorset is a village on the fringes of the Poole & Bournemouth conurbation with a wide variety of…

Biological Recording – An Early Start I was trained by my parents to record plants and animals, and started keeping a nature notebook at the…

Spotted!  New atlas reveals trends in British ladybird species The first atlas of Britain and Ireland’s ladybirds is now published. The atlas is the result…

Online atlas of the British & Irish flora In conjunction with the Botanical Society of the British Isles (BSBI) and Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC),…

NBN Trust's Annual Report 2010 – 2011 “The past year has been exceptionally important and busy for the NBN. On the one hand, the NBN…

Remembering Derek Lott Derek Lott was a staunch, quiet supporter of the NBN ever since its concept was first proposed, and he was an active biological recorder…

White Paper sends out a positive message to the NBN The Natural Environment White Paper is a bold and ambitious statement outlining the Government’s vision for…

Explaining range changes: from county to continent. A workshop held at BRC Wallingford, 7 May 2011  National recording schemes and societies were particularly well represented…

Neighbourhood watch scheme launched as wildlife charities challenge a prickly problem: the decline of UK hedgehogs A three year campaign to save Britain’s declining hedgehog…

New ponds powered by the NBN The BAP Species Map, recently updated to provide information on 101 of our rarest and most threatened pond-associated species,…

The Species Dictionary service, managed by the Natural History Museum, is one of 16 projects which have received an award (of up to €5,000) from…

When I was a young bird-watcher, I was fascinated by – and envious of – the exploits of the 19th Century travelling naturalists and their…

The NBN High Level Stewardship tool demonstrates how data from the NBN Gateway can be used to help non specialists make better conservation decisions. Species…

In the second of our Recorder Insight features, we hear from Murdo Macdonald and one of his selected species is Andrena marginata. Read more in the Features section    

Scarborough Bioblitz: 585 species and counting… Temperatures soared and so did the species count during the Scarborough Bioblitz last weekend!  On the 2nd, 3rd and…

Vote for OPAL today, we need you! OPAL (Open Air Laboratories) is through to the semi-finals of The National Lottery Awards 2011 and needs your…

Calling the Interactive Map Tool by URL The NBN Gateway Interactive Map Tool contains a facility to set up maps by URL. These URLs allow…