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UK BAP
Published date 2019-06-20The UK Biodiversity Action Plan (UK BAP): 1992–2012 The UK Biodiversity Action Plan (UK BAP) was published in 1994, and was the UK Government’s response to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)...
Marine Assessment
Published date 2019-05-07JNCC is responsible for co-ordinating and undertaking assessments of marine ecosystems to inform UK Government policy and management of human activities. Assessments are also used to report against ou...
Little Tern (Sternula albifrons)
Published date 2019-04-17The following has been adapted from original text by Georgina Pickerell in Seabird Populations of Britain and Ireland (with permission from A&C Black, London). Little tern is the smallest specie...
Special Protection Areas – overview
Published date 2019-04-18Special Protection Areas (SPAs) are protected areas for birds in the UK classified under: the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981 (as amended) and the Conservation (Natural Habitats, & c.) Regula...
Cathy - 21 July 2021
Published date 2021-07-21Organic 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...
UKBI - B5a. Air pollution
Published date 2019-12-05Updated 5 December 2019 Type: Pressure Indicator This indicator has been updated with the 2016 data, which, due to timing, could not be included in the UK Biodiversity Indicators 2019 published on 5 S...
UKBI - C9a. Animal genetic resources
Published date 2019-09-05Type: State / Benefit Indicator Indicator Description Genetic diversity is an important component of biological diversity. Rare and native breeds of farm animals are part of our cultural...
Great Skua (Stercorarius skua)
Published date 2019-04-17The following has been adapted from original text by Robert W. Furness and Norman Ratcliffe in Seabird Populations of Britain and Ireland (with permission from A&C Black, London). The great skua...
Chile Viticulture - project reports
Published date 2019-08-14To accompany the online mapper and the VINES application a series of reports have been published. Project reports The project report (JNCC report 634) outlines the background history as to why the pro...
UK Biodiversity Indicator mapping
Published date 2019-08-29Mapping of the UK Biodiversity indicators to the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and the EU Biodiversity Strategy Targets and Actions Mapping of the UK Biodiversity Indicators against the Aichi Biodiversit...