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Develop your passion for nature when the new Darwin Centre opens on 15th September. The new Darwin Centre is a state-of-the-art science and collections facility…

The Natural History Museum regrets that the Species Dictionary website is temporarily unavailable due to an equipment upgrade. Meanwhile, taxonomic information is still available through…

A new release (3.3) of the web services has just been released. Please see the Gateway library for information on web services and the Gateway web service client tools for…

The records held by the NBN Gateway reached over 40 million at the start of this month! The 40 millionth record belonged to a bird – the Chiffchaff  (Phylloscopus…

How polluted is the air we breathe? Join the survey being led by our partner OPAL and help our scientists find out more about the way…

From today ladybird recorders will be able to send in records via their mobile phones as part of a new partnership between the Centre for…

Powys Flora Conservation is asking the public to take part in an orchid survey to help find and map 10 species of orchids in Wales.…

  The summer issue of NBN News is now available to download.  In this issue read about OPAL new fund for national recording schemes and natural…

Bird enthusiasts are celebrating in Cornwall after two pairs of choughs successfully raised eight fledglings. The birds, which have black plumage, red legs and a…

As announced in the Spring 2009 issue of NBN News, Big Lottery Fund initiative OPAL is coordinating a dedicated programme of support for local and…

Want to know if your garden or school pond is in good shape for wildlife? Then take part in Pond Conservation’s Big Pond Dip. It’s…

Last year the charity Butterfly Conservation ran a public survey for the migrant Humming-bird Hawk-moth and Painted Lady butterfly. Unfortunately, 2008 was a poor year…

A new look for a national marine life information project Now in its 10th year, MarLIN – an initiative of the Marine Biological Association –…

Scientists have identified why excessive fertilisation of soils is resulting in a loss of plant diversity. Extra nutrients allow fast growing plants to dominate a…

Freshwater Reviews is a scientific journal dedicated to providing comprehensive, modern reviews of topics in the freshwater sciences. It is published by the Freshwater Biological…

This RSPB dataset contains the results from surveys of garden bird observations, made by the public during a one-hour period of their choice in the last…

Biodiversity in the UK is continuing to decline according to statistics released by the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Defra is studying…

The most species rich nature reserve currently known in Britain, Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire, has published online for the first time 56,000 records of more than…

The spring issue of NBN News is now available to download.  In this issue read about OPAL project progress, a Defra funded project for Non Native…

OPAL is inviting everybody to take part in one of England’s biggest nature surveys. OPAL scientists want to find out more about earthworms and the soils they…