diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a3d5343913..601b414217 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 
 - switch to uv and prek for pipeline linting workflow ([#3942](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/3942))
 - add schema to devcontainer.json ([#3908](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/3908))
+- Add bioconda channel to conda setup ([#3987](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/3987))
 
 ### Linting
 
diff --git a/nf_core/pipeline-template/.github/actions/nf-test/action.yml b/nf_core/pipeline-template/.github/actions/nf-test/action.yml
index eae3519967..4cb1e2f4bf 100644
--- a/nf_core/pipeline-template/.github/actions/nf-test/action.yml
+++ b/nf_core/pipeline-template/.github/actions/nf-test/action.yml
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ runs:
       with:
         auto-update-conda: true
         conda-solver: libmamba
-        channels: conda-forge
+        channels: conda-forge,bioconda
         channel-priority: strict
         conda-remove-defaults: true