National Biodiversity Network

View Network News – June 2026

In this issue:

NBN Atlas data updates – another milestone! NBN Trust receives a National Lottery Community Fund Better Biodiversity Data project Love Your Burial Ground Week GiGL’s 30 year milestone H...

Written by Mandy Rudd, GiGL’s CEO with extracts from GiGL’s newsletter 

2026 is a year of significant anniversaries for GiGL (Greenspace Information for Greater London). We launched as a hosted local environmental records centre 20 years ago, having spent two years in a development phase with a clear goal of established diversified and sustainable revenue...

Saturday 6 – Sunday 14 June is Love Your Burial Ground Week, Churches Count on Nature and National Cemeteries Week.

Free webinars

This year’s Churches Count on Nature free webinar series kicked off with a session on recording wildlife – a

Are you a citizen scientist?

If so, your input is requested for a Europe-wide study which is looking for active and former volunteers from citizen science projects who are willing to share their experiences and perspectives in a short online survey (approx. 10–15 minutes).

The study examines the relationship between participation in citizen science projects and ...

As biodiversity loss accelerates and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework calls for urgent, evidence-based conservation action, wildlife biobanking has an increasingly important role to play in supporting species recovery, conservation breeding, and long-term genetic resource management.

Although an important strategic framework now exists, there remains...