NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording
The National Biodiversity Network Trust wants to recognise significant achievement and celebrate success in wildlife recording and information sharing in the UK.
So, to do this, the NBN Trust set up a national award scheme, in 2015, in partnership with the Biological Records Centre and the National Forum for Biological Recording. These awards are made annually to individuals or groups of people that are making outstanding contributions to wildlife recording and improving our understanding of the natural world in the UK.
Previous NBN Awards
2025 Awards
Information on all of the 2025 winners
2024 Awards
Information on all of the 2024 winners
2023 Awards
There were no Awards in 2023 as we revamped the scheme that year
2022 Awards
Information on all of the 2022 winners
2021 Awards
Information on all of the 2021 winners
2020 Awards
Information on all of the 2020 winners
2019 Awards
Information on all of the 2019 winners
2018 Awards
Information on all of the 2018 winners
2017 Awards
Information on all of the 2017 winners
2016 Awards
Information on all of the 2016 winners
2015 Awards
Information on all of the 2015 winners
John Sawyer NBN Open Data Award
This award recognises and celebrates the outstanding contribution of NBN Data Partners in achieving the NBN Trust mission of “making data work for nature”.
The NBN Trust will identify one data partner deserving of the John Sawyer NBN Open Data Award each year.
To be considered, the data partner must:
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Be a NBN Trust member
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Have more than 500 records on the NBN Atlas
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Have updated at least one dataset that contains open licensed records during the year (Open licences are CC0, CC-BY and OGL)
The scoring will be calculated as follows:
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Criteria
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Score
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Currency
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81-100% recorded within last 5 years
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5
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51-80% recorded within last 5 years
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3
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0-50% recorded within last 5 years
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1
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Resolution
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81-100% 100m resolution
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5
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51-80% 100m resolution
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3
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0-50% 100m resolution
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1
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Open licence
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81-100% records on an Open licence
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5
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51-80% records on an Open licence
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3
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0-50% records on an Open licence
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1
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N.B. Previous winners of the award cannot win again within ten years.
N.B. Nominations cannot be made for the John Sawyer NBN Open Data Award.
The winner of the Award will be notified by the end of October and invited to attend the NBN Awards ceremony in November.
