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Join as a Corporate Member
Support us in encouraging a better understanding of the natural world by promoting the active study of natural history. We further the gaining of the hands-on skills and knowledge that naturalists need to evaluate the changing state of the wide range of species in Britain, but we need your help and backing.

You realise that the business world requires considerable management skills and expertise to survive, how much more does our natural world need these. Without skilled naturalists monitoring changing conditions we will be unaware of the health of our environment. Your support will make a difference.

Corporate Membership of the British Naturalists’ Association can also bring benefit to your business, for we will appreciate and visibly acknowledge your support. Your staff and customers will gain an awareness of your commitment to tackling the environment’s needs in a businesslike and ethical way.

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BECOME RECOGNISED AS A NATURALIST. Details ...
You can become a Fellow (FBNA), Registered Member (MBNA) or Associate (ABNA) of the national body for naturalists, the British Naturalists’ Association if you are an active field naturalist. Provide the Grade Registration Board with evidence of your experience and competence and you can become Recognised with the appropriate grade, which brings with it the right to use the appropriate level of post nominative letters, FBNA, MBNA or ABNA. Check out the Grade Guidance Notes for more information then use the application form to apply today. To see new Fellows, Registered Members and Associates being formally Recognised by being greeted by Sir David Attenborough and other Fellows Honoris Causa at the 2007 Conference click Encaenia. Apply in time and you could be formally recognised at the next one! Don’t delay, apply today!

Grades – Members of BNA have the opportunity to add Grade Recognition to their membership which will acknowledge their natural history skills and achievements. This will demonstrate to others that you believe in furthering the study of natural history and in acquiring the necessary field skills to achieve this. An application form is available here to apply for recognition as an Associate (ABNA), Registered Member (MBNA) or Fellow (FBNA) of the British Naturalists' Association. Grade Guidance Notes are also available here. Application for the higher grades requires the support of appropriate natural history referees.

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