The NFBR has held an annual conference since its establishment in 1986.
Our 2027 conference will be held as a web symposium. Watch this space for more details!
If you would like to suggest topics or venues for future conferences, if you would like to help organise a conference or if your organisation would like to co-host a joint event, please contact us.
The complete list of past NFBR conferences can be found below, with links to download proceedings where available.
| Title | Theme | Venue | Month | Proceedings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | NFBR 40th Celebration: Data for Nature | The Signing Tree conference centre, Birmingham | May | |
| 2025 | Biological Recording: Local To National Virtual Symposium | Online webinar | May | |
| 2024 | Next Level Recording : Cofnodi Lefel Uwch | YMa Pontypridd | May | |
| 2023 | Why iRecord? Virtual Symposium | Online | April | |
| 2022 | Curating the Past, Creating the Future: Legacies in Biological Recording | Oxford University Museum of Natural History / Zoom | May |
 NFBR Conference 2022 Programme.pdf |
| 2021 | Outside the Honeypot: wildlife recording in the urban world | online | May | |
| 2020 | Changing the focus - wildlife recording during lockdown | online | October | |
| 2019 | Outside the Honeypot: wildlife recording in the wider world | BTO, Thetford | May | |
| 2018 | Skill Development for Biological Recording | Shrewsbury | May | |
| 2017 | Think globally, record locally – effective biological recording at the scale needed | Nottingham | May | |
| 2016 | National Recording Schemes and Societies - celebrating the past, looking to the future | Lancaster | May | |
| 2015 | A Question of Ecology - answers from biological recording | Sheffield | April | |
| 2014 |
Habitat: What is it and why do we need to know? |
Derby | April | |
| 2013 |
Biological Recording from the Local Perspective |
RNLI Poole | April | |
| 2012 |
Biodiversity Data: In Policy and Practice? |
Bishops Stortford | April | |
| 2011 |
The Future of Biological Recording |
Bristol | April | |
| 2010 |
Biological Recording in Freshwaters |
Windermere | April | |
| 2008 |
Recording and Data Networks |
Harrogate | June | |
| 2007 |
Getting the Best out of Records, Recording and Sampling Strategies (hosted by Pond Conservation Trust) |
Oxford Brookes University | May | |
| 2006 |
Biological Recording for the Future (in collaboration with the Biological Records Centre) |
Birmingham | May | |
| 2005 |
Green Spaces, Living Spaces - biological recording and conservation policies in the UK's urban areas |
Harrogate | March | |
| 2004 |
Biodiversity Observations and Collections |
Cardiff | July |
NFBR_Biodiversity_observations_and_collections.PDF |
| 2002 |
Sampling and Sampling Strategies |
Winchester Guildhall | March | |
| 2001 |
Local Records Centres |
Birmingham | . | |
| 2000 |
Wildlife Information at Your Fingertips - generating data solutions through Local Records Centres |
Llandudno | May | |
| 1999 |
Biological Recording: Using new technology |
Cardiff | November | |
| 1998 |
Bugs for the New Millenium |
Belfast | November | |
| 1997 |
Botanical Recording and Conservation |
Liverpool | November | |
| 1996 |
Application of Red Data Books to Planning, BAP and Conservation |
Peterborough | November | |
| 1995 |
Workshop on Local Biodiversity Action Plans |
Peterborough | . | |
| 1994 |
Action on Biodiversity seminar held instead of conference |
Peterborough | . | |
| 1993 |
Crises and Biological Recording |
Cornwall | July | |
| 1992 |
Who's Paying the Piper? Who uses and pays for biological information? |
Nottingham University | September | |
| 1991 |
Invertebrates in the Landscape: invertebrate recording in site evaluation and countryside monitoring |
Brighton | July |
Intertebrates in the Landscape 1991.PDF |
| 1990 |
Geographical Information Systems in action: the work of the regional research laboratories |
Leicester | June | |
| 1989 |
National Perspectives in Biological Recording |
CEGB London | May |
NFBR_National_Perspectives_In_Bio_Recording_UK.pdf |
| 1987 |
Biological Recording: The Products |
Bristol | April |
Biological_Recording_A_The_Products_1988.PDF, Biological_Recording_B_The_Products_1988.PDF |
| 1986 |
Biological Recording in a Changing Landscape |
Cambridge | April |
Biological_Recording_In_A_Changing_Landscape.PDF |