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Article 12 Report 2019
Published date 2019-12-16Reporting obligations under the Birds Directive are set out in Article 12, which requires reports on implementation of the Directive every six years. The 11th UK report was submitted to the European ...
Tranche 3 MCZ Designation Announcement
Published date 2019-07-02On 31 May 2019, Defra announced the designation of a third tranche of Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs) to complete the Marine Protected Area (MPA) network in Secretary of State waters, and further con...
Training Harriet Science 03/08/21
Published date 2021-08-03For below-ground biodiversity, a focus simply on the biodiversity of below-ground species misses the important consideration of the contribution of below-ground biological processes to the maintenance...
Updated Marine Protected Area Advice
Published date 2019-07-04JNCC have been working on improving the conservation advice we provide for offshore Marine Protected Areas. The new approach is based on recommended best practice and feedback from current users. Furt...
JNCC notes with sadness the loss of Professor Howard Platt
Published date 2019-08-23One of JNCC’s Committee members, Professor Howard Platt, died on Wednesday this week after a protracted, courageous and characteristically noble battle against cancer. Howard is a former Head of Cons...
Training - Cathy - 20 Oct - Category
Published date 2022-10-202022-10-20T00:00:00
Going behind the data on survey... - Blog #6
Published date 2019-09-11We’re now in the latter stages of the 1219S survey here at West Shetland Shelf Marine Protected Area (MPA). We’ve shown examples of the data we’re collecting but what are the roles of the people behin...
Good bye Croker!
Published date 2015-11-23After two weeks in the Irish Sea packed with action, our time has come to say good bye to the Croker Carbonate Slabs cSAC/SCI. We have had an amazingly productive survey and collected a huge amount of...
MOU signed with Namibia Nature Foundation
Published date 2019-07-02MOU signed with Namibia Nature Foundation JNCC is delighted to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between JNCC, the South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute (SAERI) and the N...
We’re going on a sponge hunt! Blog #2
Published date 2018-08-29It’s our third shift at Faroe Shetland Sponge Belt NCMPA and we’re on the hunt for sponges. Technical issues have delayed us by a day and have persisted. Offshore surveys are never straightforward, bu...