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Every year in December, iNaturalist produces annual usage stats – the Year in Review. iNaturalistUK 2023 Year in Review is an interactive web page which includes…

View Network News – December 2023. In this issue: Thank you for coming to the NBN Conference in Edinburgh! Heartfelt thanks to outgoing Patron, Sir…

These two grants may be of interest: Groundwork’s “Our Space Award” Community groups can apply for grants of up to £20,000 to improve local green…

Every year in December, iNaturalist produces annual usage statistics – the Year in Review. These stats have been produced for iNaturalistUK for the past three years…

This national recording scheme has over 41,000 verified records in two datasets on the NBN Atlas, contributing two-thirds of all the longhorn beetle records on…

The Better Biodiversity Data (BBD) project is continuing to work with its partners across Scotland to improve the biodiversity data infrastructure with the help of…

Chair of the NBN Trust, Neil Hodges, pays this tribute to Professor Sir John Lawton CBE FRS – Patron of the NBN Trust since November…

The NBN Trust is delighted to be receiving a Go Further, Faster award from Amazon Web Services’ inaugural 2023 IMAGINE Grant UK for Non-profits. Amazon…

View Network News – November 2023. In this issue: NBN Conference – time is running out to book! Vacancy – Biodiversity Data Officer (NBN Atlas)…

In May this year, the NBN Trust was delighted to be part of a Data Study Group with the Alan Turing Institute. The Data Study…

Two grant programmes – Nature Networks Fund and Local Places for Nature – are open for applications from communities and organisations in Wales. Nature Networks…

A new round of Government funding to protect the countryside in England has been announced by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra)…

Two grants are available to schools, community groups or non-profit organisations. British Science Week 2024 Grants Schools and community groups can apply for Kick Start…

We are pleased to say that it won’t be a final goodbye but, in October, we said farewell to Sophia Ratcliffe, the NBN Atlas Data…

Scotland’s west coast seas are a vitally important area for minke whales – with some of these spectacular but vulnerable marine mammals notching up Europe’s…

The national builders’ merchant, Jewson, is the first major national company to sign-up to Hedgehog Street’s  ‘Hedgehog Friendly Fencing’ campaign, which was launched in July.…

On the 20 October, the Natural History Consortium announced the results of EuroBioBlitz 2023. During the 48 hours of EuroBioBlitz, 64,397 records of wildlife were made on…

The Belgian-built GBIF Alert system – a flexible open-source system for notifying users about the availability of new occurrence records through GBIF – has won…

The NBN Trust is thrilled and excited that Butterfly Conservation has recently made over 46 million records of UK butterflies and moths publicly available on…

View Network News – October 2023. In this issue: NBN Conference – more speakers confirmed NBN Trust Annual Impact Report 2022/23 State of Nature 2023 Major…