NBN Conference 2018

NBN Conference 2018

Julie Cox, GiGL Partnership Officer The 18th National Biodiversity Network (NBN) Conference was held in November. The GiGL team made their way to Nottingham to benefit from two days of talks on the theme of “the NBN in a changing climate”. The conference is always an...
NBN Conference

NBN Conference

Louise Sleeman, Information Officer This year’s NBN conference, held in Edinburgh, was titled “Going with the flow: supporting the NBN data flow pathway”. This was a very timely topic for GiGL, as we have just written our own Data Flow Strategy. So, we happily joined...
The Consultants’ Portal

The Consultants’ Portal

Ella Vogel, NBN Secretariat Of the hundreds of thousands of biological records collected by environmental consultants and other ecological professionals, only a very small number are shared beyond the commissioning agency. This is due in part to the lack of a standard...
Gatecrashing the Gateway

Gatecrashing the Gateway

Mandy Rudd, GiGL Director Publicly available planning figures show 17,000 planning applications were assessed in London between January and March last year (2011). In the same period, GiGL delivered just 144 data searches. While not all applications have a potential...