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Training - Julia - Detail 2
Published date 2021-05-05Organic farming practices have recently been shown to benefit a wide range of above-ground taxa through increases in abundance and/or species richness. In relation to policy development, there is a pa...
Training Science Christina Part 2
Published date 2021-07-21Increased consumer awareness of food safety issues and environmental concerns has contributed to the growth in development of a number of ‘sustainable’ farming systems over the last few years. Organic...
Marine Protected Area Mapper
Published date 2019-04-30The JNCC Marine Protected Area (MPA) mapper is an interactive resource containing information on the MPAs designated in UK and Crown Dependency waters. The mapper displays MPA boundaries in all UK a...
Who we are
Published date 2019-05-23JNCC is the public body that advises the UK Government and devolved administrations on UK-wide and international nature conservation. Originally established under the Environmental Protection Act 1990...
International conventions
Published date 2019-04-18The UK is a Contracting Party to a range of environmental Conventions. Conventions are the commonest form of international agreements to encourage a co-ordinated response to managing the environment. ...
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
Published date 2019-04-18The Convention on Biological Diversity (Biodiversity Convention or CBD) was adopted at the Conference on Environment and Development (the "Earth Summit") in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June 1992, and en...
Geike Slide and Hebridean Slope NCMPA Survey Goodbye Geikie Slide
Published date 2016-08-05Hello once more from the Scotia, where our survey has drawn to a close. We have now begun our journey back to Aberdeen, on Scotland’s East coast, from Geikie Slide and the Hebridean Slope Nature Conse...
Disability Confident
Published date 2019-10-28JNCC Support Co. is a Disability Confident Leader, the highest level possible in the Government’s Disability Confident scheme. The scheme aims to help employers make the most of the opportunities prov...
MPA monitoring
Published date 2019-05-07JNCC has a dual responsibility for monitoring of seabed habitats and species in UK Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). UK co-ordination: working together with our partners in UK Governments and the countr...
Sonar, So Good! - Blog #3
Published date 2019-01-10Since we last wrote, the team has been hard at work continuing to collect multibeam data at Offshore Overfalls MCZ. JNCC and Cefas scientific crew monitoring the multibeam data acquisition. In additi...