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Recording Invasive Species Counts – the RISC project It has been estimated that the cost of invasive species to the worldwide economy is about five…

Celebrating the International Year of Biodiversity (IYB), the UK National Commission for UNESCO has launched a biodiversity information pack and competition for schools.  IYB is…

2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity, and people all over the world are being encouraged to safeguard our global natural heritage and reduce the…

Recording Invasive Species Counts Under the NBN’s contract with Defra we will be launching Recording Invasive Species Counts (RISC), a project to engage the public in monitoring…

We are delighted to have welcomed Lynn Heeley, Paul Gilbertson and Selvameena Dhandapani to the NBN team. Lynn will be working alongside Graham French as…

Biodiversity is our life 2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity and along with IYB-UK we’d like everyone to do one simple thing to preserve…

We are pleased to announce that the NBN Species Dictionary web site is back on line www.nhm.ac.uk/nbn/ which has been down for a few months.…

‘Non-native species: alien invaders or benign newcomers?’ NBN Conference, 20th November 2009 Some people may have wondered why we focused on non-native species this year,…

The stag beetle Lucanus cervus is Britain’s largest terrestrial beetle.  Adult male beetles can reach up to 70mm in length and are easily recognised by…

NBN Technical Seminar – November 2009 On the 19th November the NBN convened a technical conference. The idea behind it was to share news about new developments…

In the year celebrating Darwin’s bicentennary and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of  Species we have produced The Darwin Guide to…

Twitter is a privately funded startup with offices in the SoMA neighborhood of San Francisco, CA. Started as a side project in March of 2006,…

iSpot (the Biodiversity Observatory) is an online nature community and resource. It aims to connect beginners with a supportive community of experts and fellow enthusiasts.…

On Thursday 1st October 2009 the Association of Local Environmental Records Centres (ALERC) formally launched. After several years of planning, the Association, which is constituted…

The winter issue of NBN News is now available to download.  In this issue read about how to improve the flow of wildlife data, a summary…

The Autumn issue of NBN News is now available to download.  In this issue read about the OPAL Air Survey, how the RSPB are targeting conservation…

Sheffield Hallam University builds courses with professional organisations and employers so they can provide what’s needed in the workplace, and they are always developing more attendance flexibility…

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…