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UK Biodiversity Action Reporting System New mapping features The Biodiversity Action Reporting System (BARS) is pleased to announce the launch of exciting new mapping abilities…

Improved mapping on the NBN Gateway On the 4th April 2011, version 4 of the NBN Gateway was released. The major feature in this release…

Nightjar breeding season surveys in Dumfries and Galloway between 1981 and 2010 (Dumfries and Galloway Nightjar Study Group) The UK population of nightjar declined by…

Could our newest member be our oldest member? We are delighted to welcome the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union as a new member of the NBN Trust. …

Wildlife of a Garden – A thirty-year story For 30 years, Jennifer Owen recorded all the wildlife in her Leicester garden. Using several trapping and…

Data mobilisation workshop report The Wildlife Information Centre ran five ID and data mobilistaion workshops in January and February 2011 with funding from the NBN…

Download February eNews Featured in the February 2011 eNews: OPAL climate survey 60 million records Moths Count – update Recording software demo East of England…

Blow a bubble and spot a contrail in the name of climate By Sarah Baldwin Get involved in the OPAL Climate Survey and discover more…

Moths Count the end of the beginning (With thanks to Dave Green for the use of this image) The Moths Count project was launched by…

Recording Software Demonstration Day How do you manage and share your records?  MapMate or DMap, Excel or Recorder, BirdTrack or iSpot?  Decisions, decisions!  Recorders from…

East of England Regional Local Environmental Records Centres and Environmental Consultants Conference 2011 Following the success of the 2010 conference, representatives from the East of…

Nature’s Calendar Nature’s Calendar is a project of the Woodland Trust, which oversees the collection of data for the UK Phenology Network. In recent years they…

Norfolk Wildlife Trust surveying toolkit At the end of January 2011, Norfolk Wildlife Trust launched its award-winning wildlife surveying toolkit online, meaning a wealth of invaluable…

Speckled Wood  Found throughout Britain and Ireland, the Speckled Wood is dark brown with creamy white patches on wings. It occurs in woodland, gardens and…

Records keep growing! The latest Gateway update means that the number of species records now available exceeds 60 million.  There are now 61,456,725 species records,…

Download January eNews Featured in the January eNews: Finding funding Climate Week Awards Business Administrator vacancy Are you using Indicia? Are natural history societies struggling?…

Join the Big Pond Thaw Survey  Figures from the Met Office early this month have confirmed that December 2010 was the coldest December across the UK…

View the Scottish Natural Heritage video on YouTube and find out how you can help the Bee and Biodiversity. Biodiversity begins with a B is a darkly…

Natural history societies consultation report Are natural history societies struggling? There is a common perception that many natural history societies are suffering from a decline…

Climate Week is a supercharged national occasion that offers an annual renewal of our ambition and confidence to combat climate change. It is for everyone…