Earthwatch Lecture - Shrinking Habitats, Species Survival.

Thursday 16th October, 7.00pm-8.30pm, at the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR, UK.

Dr. Dawn Scott & Dr. Rich Reading will give two talks on Earthwatch projects, ‘South Africa’s Brown Hyenas’ and ‘Wildlife of the Mongolian Steppe’, species in the one case often unfairly maligned, and in the other, sadly under- researched.

By ticket only - free to Earthwatch supporters, otherwise a small donation is requested on the door.

Contact the Earthwatch Europe Events Department on +44 (0) 1865 318856. Email: events@earthwatch.org.uk.

http://www.earthwatch.org/europe/get_involved/events08/habitats

NBN Trust on the move

On 30 May 2008, after nine long successful years being hosted by The Wildlife Trusts, the NBN Trust secretariat will be moving to its own offices in Nottingham

This will be the first time the NBN Trust has employed its own staff as, since its conception, the Trust has relied on its members to provide the office accommodation and staff in return for a financial contribution. And the move doesn't effect everyone; only Jo Purdy and Mandy Henshall will be effected. Both Mandy and Jo are very happy to be moving and are looking forward to the city environment and not having to drive 40 miles a day each! For the full contact details please see the contacts page

27 May, 2008

Current Vacancies

For our a list of our current vacancies please go to our jobs page

 The John Burnett Memorial Lecture a great success

The NBN Trust was delighted to honor its late and first chairman, Sir John Burnett, with a memorial lecture on 16 April 2008. The lecture, entitled "Causes and Consequences of the pending extinction spasm" was eloquently delivered by Lord Robert May.

The event was held at the Department of zoology, Oxford and was attended by over 140 of Sir John's friends, relatives and colleagues, sitting alongside a respectable number of the university's students. After the event Lord May was presented with a memorial medal as were Sir John's sons, Andrew and Nick. After the event the NBN Trust chairman, Sir Neil Chalmers, invited back some of the guests to Wadham College for drinks.

The NBN Trust is planning the second memorial lecture which it hopes to present at the NBN conference on 21st November 2008.

The Tubney Charitable Trust announces new funding strategy

The Tubney Charitable Trust is to embark upon a new, more focused approach to its charitable giving. During a recent strategic review, the Trustees confirmed their belief that conserving biodiversity and improving the welfare of farmed animals are two areas of enormous importance to the future of the planet and its inhabitants. Support for the environment will be devoted to organisations and activities that will deliver a long term positive impact on the following areas:
1. Enhancement of UK biodiversity through work with land owners on a landscape scale
2. Conservation of the marine biodiversity of the UK
3. Conservation of uncharismatic UK species
For more details on the funding strategy can be found on the Tubney Charitable Trust website www.tubney.org.uk

Heritage Lottery Fund Procurement - Lead Monitors and Mentors/Expert Advisers/ Associate Monitors

The Heritage Lottery Fund distributes money raised by the United Kingdom’s National Lottery to projects which conserve our diverse heritage and help people engage with it. Our definition of heritage includes historic buildings and townscapes; archaeology; museums and archives; landscapes and parks; habitats and species; oral history, cultural traditions and community heritage. The Fund is undertaking two procurements to provide framework agreements of:

1. Lead Monitoring services for our large and/or complex capital and activity heritage projects. Lead Monitors monitor the delivery of a project, including ensuring that best practice is achieved and financial reporting and management is sound and transparent.

2. Mentoring, Expert Advisers and Associate Monitoring services for a wide range of heritage projects. Expert Advisers provide specialist advice on applications for funding. Mentors assist applicants in the development of an application .Associate Monitors assist in monitoring specialist aspects of the delivery of a project.

Organisations and individuals are invited to formally express their interest by replying to the OJEU notices which can be found on the Tenders Electronic Database at www.ted.europa.eu after 7 April 2008 by searching all current notices using ‘Heritage Lottery Fund’.

 New integrated NBN and Gateway website under development

The NBN website has recently been subjected to a series of hacks designed to hijack our navigation headings. As a result we felt it was necessary to take the site down until the new site, currently under development, is up and running. We hope you like our temporary site.