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World Wildlife Day: using digital innovation to prevent illegal and unsustainable wildlife trade
Published date 2024-03-03To celebrate World Wildlife Day on 3 March, our latest blog post provides some insight into our role as the UK’s CITES Scientific Authority for fauna. World Wildlife Day, held on 3 March every year, h...
National Museums Scotland Blog #1
Published date 2020-02-06Survey Collections: sorting and archiving Last week, my colleague and I went up to the National Museums Scotland Collection Centre in Edinburgh. JNCC gives biological samples from each Marine Protecte...
Happy St Andrew's Day from our Scotland Liaison Officer
Published date 2021-11-30Today is St Andrew’s Day. As St Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, what better way to mark it than with a blog post from our Scotland Liaison Officer. Supporting the delivery of devolved environm...
Previous JNCC Blogs
Published date 2019-06-30To view previous JNCC blogs, please visit The National Archives website. 2019-06-30T10:46:16
Seas off Foula SPA
Published date 2020-12-03Status: Special Protection Area (SPA) The Seas off Foula SPA lies north of the Scottish mainland and about 15 km west of Shetland, covering the waters surrounding Foula. The site protects important fe...
Memorandum of Understanding concerning Conservation Measures for Marine Turtles of the Atlantic Coast of Africa
Published date 2019-05-02Marine turtles are thought to be numerous along much of the Atlantic coast of Africa, extending from Morocco to South Africa. Information suggests that the waters of Morocco (which includes the Wester...
Volunteer Seabirds at Sea Surveys
Published date 2023-08-21What is Volunteer Seabirds at Sea? Volunteer Seabirds at Sea (VSAS) is a citizen science initiative which recruits and trains volunteers to collect high quality seabirds at-sea data from vessels of op...
UKBI - Conservation Volunteering
Published date 2024-12-10Last updated: 2024 Latest data available: 2022 The number of indicators published as part of the Biodiversity Indicators suite will increase as new indicators are developed in response to the Kunming-...
UKBI - European species
Published date 2024-12-10Last updated: 2024 An additional update to this page was carried out on 13 February 2025 to correct the two charts that are displayed (‘Figure 1: Conservation status of UK species of European importan...
EO4cultivar (lengua espanola)
Published date 2020-11-20Introducción al proyecto El proyecto EO4cultivar tiene por objeto aumentar la resiliencia y la sostenibilidad de las cadenas de suministro de la agricultura comercial entre Colombia, Perú, Paraguay y ...