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Ocean and climate change film
Published date 2021-06-08To celebrate World Ocean Day 2021 today, we are proud to present a new video documenting the role the ocean plays in tackling the twin climate and biodiversity crises. In this Super Year, understandin...
JNCC Bulletin January 2020
Published date 2025-03-03This issue features the 25th Conference of the Parties Climate Change Conference in Madrid, ground-breaking citizen science seabird surveys with CalMac Ferries and balancing resource development with ...
Strengthening Sri Lanka’s preparedness to respond to oiled wildlife emergencies
Published date 2024-02-26Following on from a recent trip to Maldives, in this blog post the Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP) team update us on some oiled wildlife response training undertaken in Sri Lanka. JNCC and ...
Sri Lanka’s Protected, Endangered, and Threatened Mobile Marine Species
Published date 2025-04-28Sri Lanka’s waters are home to an array of Protected, Endangered and Threatened (PET) mobile marine species including whales, dolphins, turtles, seabirds, sharks and rays. Each species performs ecolog...
Benefits of working at JNCC
Published date 2022-07-07Leave entitlement JNCC annual leave allowance is 25 days per annum. After five years’ service, leave entitlement increases to 30 days per annum. In addition to annual leave, JNCC offers 12 public and ...
Wyville Thomson Ridge Survey WTR0924S (Blog #3): Wyville’s Weird Wonders
Published date 2024-08-21Find out about some of the organisms the offshore survey team found on their visit to Wyville Thomson Ridge, in their third blog post. So far, you have heard about the geography of Wyville Thomson Rid...
A Troublesome Visitor (Survey 0723S Blog #2)
Published date 2023-06-28Found out the latest from our offshore survey team in their second blog post on their visit to the Central Fladen Marine Protected Area (Survey 0723S), onboard MRV Scotia with the Marine Directorate o...
The Joint Cetacean Data Programme – maximising the value of cetacean survey data
Published date 2022-06-07Ensuring appropriate management and conservation measures for cetacean species requires an understanding of their distribution and population at the very least. However, monitoring cetacean species po...
Legal basis of our work
Published date 2020-09-01The legal basis for the JNCC is the Natural Environment and Rural Communities (NERC) Act 2006. It sets out the composition of the Joint Committee, the purpose of JNCC and the functions of national and...
Earth observation water quality
Published date 2020-11-20Our virtual workshop on Using Earth Observation for Water Quality Monitoring held on 13 and 14 October 2020 was a tremendous success. Attended by 174 delegates from 19 countries, the event brought tog...