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Two years of iSpot and the statistics are looking good! The OPAL iSpot project iSpot has been developed by The Open University as part of…

The Name a Species competition, as covered in our Features section, gives the winning entries and the new names for 10 previously unnamed British species.…

Welcome to hotlips, zipperback and the gangly lancer Ten species have entered the English language for the first time as winners of the 2011 Name…

All is not well in the Golden Age When I was four years old I was lent to a neighbour for a few days. She…

CEH Information Gateway links up with the National Biodiversity Network The CEH Information Gateway (CIG) is a web portal that provides researchers and the wider…

Download June eNews. In this issue: Vote for OPAL in the National Lottery Awards Recorder Insight Get Map URL button NBN maps power ponds HLS…

Download July eNews Inside this issue: NBN Conference – date announced Data Management Tools Workshops NBN Exchange format OPAL dataset on Gateway Recorder insight Corfe…

                                                                NBN Conference 2011 “Evolution or revolution?  The impact of technologies…

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…

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),…

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…

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…