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World Wetlands Day 2024: recognising the importance of wetlands for human well-being
Published date 2024-02-02To celebrate World Wetlands Day 2024, we reflect on this year's theme of 'Wetlands and Human Wellbeing' and highlight some of our areas of work. Over 50 years ago, delegates from across the world cam...
State of Nature 2023
Published date 2023-09-28Our latest blog post is from our Chief Scientist, Dave Stone, on behalf of the Chief Scientists’ Group (CSG), a director-level group of the science leaders from the UK statutory nature conservation bo...
New Joint Committee members appointed
Published date 2022-04-25First published 28 March, updated 25 April 2022* Defra has announced the appointment of Catherine Denholm and Tom Meagher as independent members of our Joint Committee. The appointments were made by D...
RBBP report 2021
Published date 2023-11-03The latest annual report by the Rare Breeding Birds Panel (RBBP) – Rare breeding birds in the UK in 2021 – has been published today (1 November 2023) and reveals mixed fortunes for the UK’s rare breed...
UK butterfly abundance statistics 2024
Published date 2025-04-02The latest annual results from the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, recently published (28 March 2025), show that 2024 was one of the worst years on record for butterflies in the UK. The UK butterfly a...
One Ocean, One Challenge: building effective MPA networks through trans-national partnerships
Published date 2024-11-07Our latest blog post, by Aishath Amal, Senior Conservation Officer at the Ministry of Climate Change, Environment and Energy, Maldives; and Beth Flavell, International MPA Programme Manager at JNCC, r...
Stony coral tissue loss disease identification, monitoring and treatment training in Montserrat and Anguilla
Published date 2022-02-04Our latest blog post is provided by Abbie Dosell and Bryony Meakins, from our International Implementation Team. They tell us about some training workshops which were recently held on the UK Overseas ...
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus oddi wrth ein Swyddog Cyswllt Cymru
Published date 2022-03-01Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus oddi wrth ein Swyddog Cyswllt Cymru Mae heddiw yn ddiwrnod Dydd Gŵyl Dewi. Gan mai Dewi Sant yw nawddsant Cymru, pa ffordd well i’w nodi na gyda blogbost gan ein Swyddog Cyswllt C...
JNCC publishes guidelines for robot marine monitoring platforms
Published date 2021-03-26JNCC publishes guidelines for robot marine monitoring platforms JNCC has published guidelines for two of the latest sampling platforms for marine benthic monitoring, Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) ...
Wyville Thomson Ridge Survey WTR0924S (Blog #2): Capturing the marvels of Wyville Thomson Ridge
Published date 2024-08-07Catch up on our offshore survey team’s visit to Wyville Thomson Ridge MPA in their second blog post. This JNCC and Scottish Government survey focusses on imagery analysis to monitor any change of cond...