News
- BFL attend the NHM Night for Nature event (23rd June 2026) – BFL attended the NHM and AWS Night for Nature event. The BFL presented a content station manned by Sara Contu, Connor Duffin, and Charlotte McGinty (left to right, below), where they showcased the BII, and engaged with the public about biodiversity and how vital metrics like the BII are for understanding human impacts on nature.
BFL release BII 3.2.0 (17th February 2026) – This is our major release for Q1 2026, and includes major revisions of our QA suite as well as a set of methodological improvements to the pipeline. A public limited-data release will follow, but in the meantime, if you are interested in testing the new version, please get in touch!
BFL release predictsr v0.2.0 (1st December 2025) – This package update allows users to save the PREDICTS database locally, to avoid having to repeatedly download it from the NHM data portal. Available now from CRAN.
BII featured in the NHM Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 exhibition (17th October 2025) – The Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) is featured in the museum’s recent WPY exhibition. The exhibition runs from 17th October 2025 to 12th July 2026.
BFL release the predictsr R package on CRAN (10th July 2025) – We are excited to announce the release of the predictsr R package! This package allows users to download the latest public releases of the PREDICTS database, to use in their own research. Check out the documentation to get started!
Charlotte McGinty joins BFL as our Geospatial Analyst (29th May 2025) – We are delighted to welcome Charlotte McGinty to BFL as our new Geospatial Analyst! In her new role, she will be supporting the development of BII through the investigation of new geospatial data and models, as well as conducting QA on all BFL geospatial data.
BII featured in Fixing Our Broken Planet exhibition (8th April 2025) – The Museum’s brilliant new exhibition includes a quote about BII from Sabine Nix, from her time in BFL. The exhibition’s opening featured on Channel 4 News.
New paper in Science (4th April 2025) – Are insects in rapid global decline? If so, what would turn things around? The latest paper from the GLiTRS project, Integrating multiple evidence streams to understand insect biodiversity change, spells out why these are still open questions, despite their high profile over recent years. It argues that time-series data, such as those coming from monitoring programmes, are too patchy and biased to give a clear picture of any global trend, and that combining different lines of evidence into a synthetic threat-response model can provide a deeper understanding. As well as being among the paper’s authors, Andy was interviewed for an article about it on the NHM news site.