National Biodiversity Network Trust
@nbntrust.bsky.social
Our mission - "making data work for nature". Our vision - "nature thriving everywhere, in all its diversity".
www.nbn.org.uk - main website
https://nbnatlas.org/ - search 300 million+ UK wildlife records
https://uk.inaturalist.org - record wildlife
www.nbn.org.uk - main website
https://nbnatlas.org/ - search 300 million+ UK wildlife records
https://uk.inaturalist.org - record wildlife
📢 Advance notice NBN Atlas users
We’ll be performing essential maintenance on the NBN Atlas, Tuesday, 9 December, 07:30–09:00 GMT.
During this time, NBN Atlas will be unavailable.
Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
You can continue to use the NBN Atlas as normal before and after: nbnatlas.org
We’ll be performing essential maintenance on the NBN Atlas, Tuesday, 9 December, 07:30–09:00 GMT.
During this time, NBN Atlas will be unavailable.
Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
You can continue to use the NBN Atlas as normal before and after: nbnatlas.org
NBN Atlas - UK’s largest collection of biodiversity information
NBN Atlas is a free online tool hosting the UK's largest collection of biodiversity information enabling data to be shared, analysed and researched.
nbnatlas.org
December 3, 2025 at 11:09 AM
📢 Advance notice NBN Atlas users
We’ll be performing essential maintenance on the NBN Atlas, Tuesday, 9 December, 07:30–09:00 GMT.
During this time, NBN Atlas will be unavailable.
Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
You can continue to use the NBN Atlas as normal before and after: nbnatlas.org
We’ll be performing essential maintenance on the NBN Atlas, Tuesday, 9 December, 07:30–09:00 GMT.
During this time, NBN Atlas will be unavailable.
Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
You can continue to use the NBN Atlas as normal before and after: nbnatlas.org
🚨 Only 30 places left for #NBNconf25 !
With 2 weeks to go, we’re nearly full — book now to join us in Bristol! 🐝🌿
🎤 Programme & speakers: bit.ly/NBNconf25
#Biodiversity #Data #Networking
With 2 weeks to go, we’re nearly full — book now to join us in Bristol! 🐝🌿
🎤 Programme & speakers: bit.ly/NBNconf25
#Biodiversity #Data #Networking
November 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
🚨 Only 30 places left for #NBNconf25 !
With 2 weeks to go, we’re nearly full — book now to join us in Bristol! 🐝🌿
🎤 Programme & speakers: bit.ly/NBNconf25
#Biodiversity #Data #Networking
With 2 weeks to go, we’re nearly full — book now to join us in Bristol! 🐝🌿
🎤 Programme & speakers: bit.ly/NBNconf25
#Biodiversity #Data #Networking
#NBNconf25 5 weeks to go! Have you booked yet? 16 inspiring speakers, announcement of #NBNawards25 , fireside chat with new NBN Trust CEO Dr Gareth Thomas & BBC Head of Nature, Tom Gray, Art Corner with @laurens-colours.bsky.social , Sir John Burnett Memorial Lecture and networking! bit.ly/NBNconf25
October 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
#NBNconf25 5 weeks to go! Have you booked yet? 16 inspiring speakers, announcement of #NBNawards25 , fireside chat with new NBN Trust CEO Dr Gareth Thomas & BBC Head of Nature, Tom Gray, Art Corner with @laurens-colours.bsky.social , Sir John Burnett Memorial Lecture and networking! bit.ly/NBNconf25
The NBN Atlas Strategy 2025–2030 outlines how we’ll make the NBN Atlas the cornerstone of the UK’s biodiversity data infrastructure, helping us better understand, protect, and enhance the natural world through data innovation and cutting-edge technology.
bit.ly/NBNAtlasStra...
bit.ly/NBNAtlasStra...
October 8, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The NBN Atlas Strategy 2025–2030 outlines how we’ll make the NBN Atlas the cornerstone of the UK’s biodiversity data infrastructure, helping us better understand, protect, and enhance the natural world through data innovation and cutting-edge technology.
bit.ly/NBNAtlasStra...
bit.ly/NBNAtlasStra...
#NBNconf25 - programme announced! 📅20 November, Bristol. Celebrating 25 years of making data work for nature with wonderful speakers and inspiring presentations. Join us if you're passionate about nature, data and the critical role NBN plays in protecting and restoring biodiversity bit.ly/NBNconf25
September 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
#NBNconf25 - programme announced! 📅20 November, Bristol. Celebrating 25 years of making data work for nature with wonderful speakers and inspiring presentations. Join us if you're passionate about nature, data and the critical role NBN plays in protecting and restoring biodiversity bit.ly/NBNconf25
Big BRISC Bioblitz Finale - to mark the end of BRISC (Biological Recording in Scotland) this year, and its many achievements over the last 50 years, a week long Bioblitz is being held (22 - 28 Sept) to celebrate its legacy and Scotland's biodiversity🐞
nbn.org.uk/news/big-bri...
nbn.org.uk/news/big-bri...
September 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Big BRISC Bioblitz Finale - to mark the end of BRISC (Biological Recording in Scotland) this year, and its many achievements over the last 50 years, a week long Bioblitz is being held (22 - 28 Sept) to celebrate its legacy and Scotland's biodiversity🐞
nbn.org.uk/news/big-bri...
nbn.org.uk/news/big-bri...
We’re excited to announce the finalists for NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording 2025! From 45 nominations, 28 incredible individuals and groups have made it to the shortlist across 7 categories. Winners and highly commended will be announced at #NBNconf25 bit.ly/NBNawards25shortlist
September 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
We’re excited to announce the finalists for NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording 2025! From 45 nominations, 28 incredible individuals and groups have made it to the shortlist across 7 categories. Winners and highly commended will be announced at #NBNconf25 bit.ly/NBNawards25shortlist
Dr Gareth Thomas is our new CEO from Oct 25! Coming from the Natural History Museum his experience in research innovation, including BII, TNFD, will ensure we remain a trusted source of biodiversity data, while expanding partnerships to help drive nature’s recovery in UK and beyond bit.ly/3JJEiQp
September 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Dr Gareth Thomas is our new CEO from Oct 25! Coming from the Natural History Museum his experience in research innovation, including BII, TNFD, will ensure we remain a trusted source of biodiversity data, while expanding partnerships to help drive nature’s recovery in UK and beyond bit.ly/3JJEiQp
NBN Trust is celebrating 25 years of making data work for nature! By connecting hundreds of organisations and managing NBN Atlas, the UK’s largest biodiversity data portal, we're supporting the whole nature conservation community & helping to protect & restore biodiversity in the UK🌿 www.nbn.org.uk
August 29, 2025 at 8:17 AM
NBN Trust is celebrating 25 years of making data work for nature! By connecting hundreds of organisations and managing NBN Atlas, the UK’s largest biodiversity data portal, we're supporting the whole nature conservation community & helping to protect & restore biodiversity in the UK🌿 www.nbn.org.uk
Bookings are now open for the 25th NBN Conference!
Join us on 20 November at the SS Great Britain in Bristol for a day of inspiring talks, networking, and celebrating 25 years of making data work for nature. Find all the details and book your place here: nbn.org.uk/.../nbn-conf...
Join us on 20 November at the SS Great Britain in Bristol for a day of inspiring talks, networking, and celebrating 25 years of making data work for nature. Find all the details and book your place here: nbn.org.uk/.../nbn-conf...
August 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Bookings are now open for the 25th NBN Conference!
Join us on 20 November at the SS Great Britain in Bristol for a day of inspiring talks, networking, and celebrating 25 years of making data work for nature. Find all the details and book your place here: nbn.org.uk/.../nbn-conf...
Join us on 20 November at the SS Great Britain in Bristol for a day of inspiring talks, networking, and celebrating 25 years of making data work for nature. Find all the details and book your place here: nbn.org.uk/.../nbn-conf...
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How much excitement can biological recorders cope with? Save the date! It’s @nfbr.bsky.social 40th anniversary conference next year - woohoo! Get it in your diaries…
@nbntrust.bsky.social @kitenet.bsky.social @elaineeepoos.bsky.social @teamneyedc.bsky.social
@nbntrust.bsky.social @kitenet.bsky.social @elaineeepoos.bsky.social @teamneyedc.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
How much excitement can biological recorders cope with? Save the date! It’s @nfbr.bsky.social 40th anniversary conference next year - woohoo! Get it in your diaries…
@nbntrust.bsky.social @kitenet.bsky.social @elaineeepoos.bsky.social @teamneyedc.bsky.social
@nbntrust.bsky.social @kitenet.bsky.social @elaineeepoos.bsky.social @teamneyedc.bsky.social
We've introduced a range of features/updates to NBN Atlas which are being rolled out. This development work, in partnership with @naturalengland.bsky.social is funded by Defra through the Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services(NCEA)programme. More features/updates to come! bit.ly/NBNAtlasupgr...
NBN Atlas Accelerator Project 2024/25 - new features and platform updates - National Biodiversity Network
The NBN Atlas Data and Development teams have introduced a range of new features being rolled out in the NBN … Continued
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July 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
We've introduced a range of features/updates to NBN Atlas which are being rolled out. This development work, in partnership with @naturalengland.bsky.social is funded by Defra through the Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services(NCEA)programme. More features/updates to come! bit.ly/NBNAtlasupgr...
If you joined #NBNconf24, you'll have heard @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social create & recite "Worm's Eye View". Thanks Caleb for reproducing it bit.ly/CalebParkin ....Leading nicely into our announcement that #NBNconf25 will be on 20 November at the SS Great Britain in Bristol - bit.ly/NBNconf25
June 12, 2025 at 10:32 AM
If you joined #NBNconf24, you'll have heard @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social create & recite "Worm's Eye View". Thanks Caleb for reproducing it bit.ly/CalebParkin ....Leading nicely into our announcement that #NBNconf25 will be on 20 November at the SS Great Britain in Bristol - bit.ly/NBNconf25
BBC Springwatch just featured Ring-necked Parakeets and Alexandrine Parakeets which included distribution maps from the nbnatlas.org. The importance of data in helping us to understand any changes to wildlife in the UK, cannot be stressed enough. Join us and help make data work for nature nbn.org.uk
June 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
BBC Springwatch just featured Ring-necked Parakeets and Alexandrine Parakeets which included distribution maps from the nbnatlas.org. The importance of data in helping us to understand any changes to wildlife in the UK, cannot be stressed enough. Join us and help make data work for nature nbn.org.uk
On #BiodiversityDay a really important activity you could take part in is to record wildlife. You’d be joining thousands of volunteers across UK who are gathering vital information to help protect and restore nature. Find out more bit.ly/RecordWildlife @inaturalist.bsky.social @kitenet.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
On #BiodiversityDay a really important activity you could take part in is to record wildlife. You’d be joining thousands of volunteers across UK who are gathering vital information to help protect and restore nature. Find out more bit.ly/RecordWildlife @inaturalist.bsky.social @kitenet.bsky.social
NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording close 18 May.Nominations needed-Youth, Verifier, Terrestrial, Marine.Pls share. bit.ly/NBNawards25 @rspb.bsky.social @opticron.bsky.social @habitataid.bsky.social @fieldstudiesc.bsky.social @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social @britishwildlife.bsky.social @nhbs.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording close 18 May.Nominations needed-Youth, Verifier, Terrestrial, Marine.Pls share. bit.ly/NBNawards25 @rspb.bsky.social @opticron.bsky.social @habitataid.bsky.social @fieldstudiesc.bsky.social @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social @britishwildlife.bsky.social @nhbs.bsky.social
Do you use or collect the wildlife data that's needed to help nature recover? Help us recognise our amazing recording community by nominating in the NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording. Please spread the word to local groups, colleagues and friends. Deadline for nominations 18 May bit.ly/NBNawards25
May 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Do you use or collect the wildlife data that's needed to help nature recover? Help us recognise our amazing recording community by nominating in the NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording. Please spread the word to local groups, colleagues and friends. Deadline for nominations 18 May bit.ly/NBNawards25
NBN Awards new deadline-18 May. We're keen to receive more nominations. Some categories received very few and none were made for Young People. Let's make sure all wildlife recorders making an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the natural world are recognised-https://bit.ly/NBNawards25
May 2, 2025 at 9:59 AM
NBN Awards new deadline-18 May. We're keen to receive more nominations. Some categories received very few and none were made for Young People. Let's make sure all wildlife recorders making an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the natural world are recognised-https://bit.ly/NBNawards25
A big thank you to everyone that donated to us during The Big Give's Green Match Fund. With your help, we raised £15,641.73! As a small wildlife conservation charity that's "making data work for nature", we generally operate 'behind the scenes' so it means a huge amount that you value what we do.
April 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
A big thank you to everyone that donated to us during The Big Give's Green Match Fund. With your help, we raised £15,641.73! As a small wildlife conservation charity that's "making data work for nature", we generally operate 'behind the scenes' so it means a huge amount that you value what we do.
#GreenMatchFund We've already raised over £11K to help make data work for nature. We need another £2K for it to be doubled and we'll achieve our campaign target of £15K. Please can you help and give to our campaign before 12noon tomorrow, Tuesday 29 April? Thank you - bit.ly/BigGivePage
April 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
#GreenMatchFund We've already raised over £11K to help make data work for nature. We need another £2K for it to be doubled and we'll achieve our campaign target of £15K. Please can you help and give to our campaign before 12noon tomorrow, Tuesday 29 April? Thank you - bit.ly/BigGivePage
We're half way through the #GreenMatchFund week! Anything donated to our campaign (bit.ly/BigGivePage) by 29 April will be doubled, up to our campaign target of £15,000. Please help us reach our target before noon on 29th - thank you! #wildlife #data #biodiversity #nature
April 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
We're half way through the #GreenMatchFund week! Anything donated to our campaign (bit.ly/BigGivePage) by 29 April will be doubled, up to our campaign target of £15,000. Please help us reach our target before noon on 29th - thank you! #wildlife #data #biodiversity #nature
We're part of #GreenMatchFund Anything donated to our campaign by noon 29 April will be doubled, up to our target of £15,000. So far we've raised £6,000, so a huge thank you to those who've already donated. Please help us reach our target by giving to the NBN Trust today! bit.ly/BigGivePage
Making Data work for Nature – Big Give
We’re raising funds to help grow and empower the UK’s amazing community of wildlife recorders – which already engages tens of thousands of volunteer citizen scientists using apps such as iNaturalistUK...
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April 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
We're part of #GreenMatchFund Anything donated to our campaign by noon 29 April will be doubled, up to our target of £15,000. So far we've raised £6,000, so a huge thank you to those who've already donated. Please help us reach our target by giving to the NBN Trust today! bit.ly/BigGivePage
We're very excited to be part of The Big Give’s #GreenMatchFund for the first time! The campaign (bit.ly/BigGivePage) starts 22 April and if we raise £7,500 during the week 22–29 April it will be doubled to £15,000! It's for one week only though, so please support us if you can next week-thank you!
April 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
We're very excited to be part of The Big Give’s #GreenMatchFund for the first time! The campaign (bit.ly/BigGivePage) starts 22 April and if we raise £7,500 during the week 22–29 April it will be doubled to £15,000! It's for one week only though, so please support us if you can next week-thank you!
Remember #NBNawards25 nominations close on Monday 21 April, so please don’t delay! bit.ly/NBNawards25 If you need some more inspiration, you can read about previous winners and those highly commended on the NBN Trust website - bit.ly/info-NBNawards #MakingDataWorkForNature
April 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Remember #NBNawards25 nominations close on Monday 21 April, so please don’t delay! bit.ly/NBNawards25 If you need some more inspiration, you can read about previous winners and those highly commended on the NBN Trust website - bit.ly/info-NBNawards #MakingDataWorkForNature
Time's running out to nominate in NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording - close 21 April! We'd love more nominations for Verifier, Young Person, Newcomer, Marine & Group categories. Know someone making an amazing contribution to wildlife recording? Nominate before it's too late bit.ly/NBNawards25
April 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Time's running out to nominate in NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording - close 21 April! We'd love more nominations for Verifier, Young Person, Newcomer, Marine & Group categories. Know someone making an amazing contribution to wildlife recording? Nominate before it's too late bit.ly/NBNawards25