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Conservation designations for UK taxa – updates
Published date 2019-07-01The list shown below itemises the lists that have been added to the collation of conservation designations for UK taxa, and any updates or amendments, between April 2004 and July 2018. Date of up...
Sharing surveillance strategies
Published date 2019-07-02Sharing surveillance strategies JNCC supports an extensive programme of terrestrial biodiversity monitoring and surveillance. Working with partners – and through them, the thousands of skilled volunte...
Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus)
Published date 2019-04-17The following has been adapted from original text by James B. Reid in Seabird Populations of Britain and Ireland (with permission from A&C Black, London). The great black-backed gull has an exte...
About Marine Protected Areas
Published date 2019-05-17What are Marine Protected Areas? There are many definitions for Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). However, they can be defined broadly as a clearly defined geographical space, recognised, dedicated and...
Analysis Ready Data (ARD)
Published date 2019-05-23JNCC is leading in the creation of Analysis Ready Data (ARD) products for the Sentinel-1 and -2 platforms; pre-processing data to a proposed UK standard to be adopted in academia, industry and governm...
What we do (new 2020) - our role
Published date 2020-11-16Text based on our strategy Find out more in the our work section Business development? 2020-11-16T00:00:00
Training - Category - Lisa
Published date 2020-11-10Organic farming practices have recently been shown to benefit a wide range of above-ground taxa through increases in abundance and/or species richness. 2020-11-10T00:00:00
The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals
Published date 2019-04-18The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (Bonn Convention or CMS) was adopted in Bonn, Germany in 1979 and came into force in 1983. Convention summary Contracting Partie...
UKBI - D1b. Greenhouse gas removal
Published date 2019-09-05Type: Benefit indicator Indicator Description Forests are a large store of carbon and also act as an active carbon ‘sink’, removing carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas, from the atmos...
UKBI - B7. Surface water status
Published date 2019-09-05Type: State indicator Indicator Description The Water Framework Directive (WFD) is an important mechanism for assessing and managing the water environment in the EU, through a 6-yearly c...