National press releases

8 Jun 2011: Bugs Count launches (PDF, 53KB)

17 February 2011: Ask your climate change questions (PDF, 22KB)

8 September 2010: Biodiversity survey launch (PDF, 146KB)

17 June 2010: Biodiversity survey (PDF, 80KB)

16 June 2010: NGK winners (PDF, 291KB)

12 May 2010: Water survey launch (PDF, 86KB)

23 February 2010: Grants Scheme Year 2 (PDF, 70KB)
OPAL Grants Scheme supports more nature societies

29 September 2009: Air survey launch (PDF, 63KB)
Look for lichens and help monitor air quality

26 August 2009: Search for seaweed (PDF, 85KB)
The Big Seaweed Search launches this weekend

01 July 2009:  a new website for everyone to identify wildlife (PDF, 64KB)
iSpot is a new website to share your nature pictures.

10 June 2009: Nature groups to nurture women and children (PDF, 128KB)
Research for OPAL shows natural history societies are popular but need more young people. 

10 June 2009: Can the female of the species save nature groups? (PDF, 128KB)
Many of the 1,000 natural history organisations in the UK are male-dominated.

16 April 2009: Nature detectives needed (PDF, 172KB)
OPAL team up with National Geographic Kids magazine to get children involved with nature.

24 March 2009: Launch of the OPAL web portal (PDF, 79KB)
The new OPAL web portal will accept scientific records on a mass scale from the general public

23 March 2009: Soil and earthworm survey launch (PDF, 123KB)
Wildlife presenter Chris Packham helps launch the soil and earthworm survey in Kensington Gardens.

25 November 2008: National Press Launch (PDF, 82KB)
Wildlife presenter Steve Leonard helps launch the OPAL project at the Natural History Museum, London.