Sombrero Masked booby

Anguilla's first Ramsar site designated

Sombrero Island


Providing a home for a wonderful number of birds and lizards.

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The Breeding Bird Survey 2017

A northern powerhouse for UK songbirds


The BBS Report gives long-term trends for 117 common and widespread bird species, providing vital evidence to underpin the conservation of the UK’s birds.

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MPA Conservation Advice

Updated MPA Conservation Advice


Updated formal conservation advice for a further 32 Marine Protected Areas is now available on the respective site’s conservation advice tab. Please see the Conservation Advice page.

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Latest Butterfly Trends released

Annual UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme


JNCC in partnership with leading NGO’s and research organisations

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Offshore MPA fisheries management

2-year joint project on fishing in Offshore MPAs


JNCC is part of a consortium of five organisations developing a participatory approach to the management of fishing activity in UK offshore Marine Protected Areas.

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JNCC working internationally

Helping to improve South Africa's freshwater resources 


JNCC has successfully completed a piece of work that could help to improve the management of water resources for the 55 million population of South Africa.

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MPA Conservation Advice

Updated conservation advice for five marine areas


Updated formal conservation advice for Braemar Pockmarks SAC, Scanner Pockmark SAC, East of Gannet and Montrose Fields NCMPA, Fulmar MCZ and Firth of Forth Banks Complex NCMPA.

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MPA Conservation Advice

Updated conservation advice for Dogger Bank SAC


JNCC have published updated formal Conservation Advice for Dogger Bank SAC.

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The State of the UK's Bats 2017

Latest trends report from the NBMP


Populations of bat species being monitored are stable or recovering.

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North Norfolk Sandbanks and Saturn Reef SAC © JNCC and Cefas

MPA Conservation Advice

New formal conservation advice published


New formal conservation advice is now available for North Norfolk Sandbanks and Saturn Reef SAC.

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JNCC is the UK LIFE National Contact Point

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Beyond the Coast 2018 – 26 & 27 June

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2018 sees the tenth anniversary of the first Marine Protected Area designated in UK offshore waters. To mark this milestone we’re hosting Beyond the Coast, a conference on the future of our offshore marine environment.

Beyond the Coast, being held at the University of Hull, will bring together practitioners, academics and others to discuss key themes and to focus on progressive marine conservation in the UK’s offshore marine environment.

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Working with us

 

JNCC is keen to participate collaboratively, as a project partner or a coordinator, in EU and other joint projects. Everything from simple partnerships to multidisciplinary projects or networks of scientists and researchers across all science and technology fields related to the environment. more>>>

JNCC Strategy

2017-2020

2017 JNCC Strategy

 

The strategy sets out the direction and scope of JNCC more>>>

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UK Biodiversity Framework

 The framework is designed to show how the work of the four UK countries joins up with work at a UK level to achieve the ‘Aichi targets’ and the aims of the EU biodiversity strategy. Read the framework

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