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Air Pollution
Published date 2023-07-31Air pollution is a major environmental pressure that is felt at a range of scales, from local, to regional, to global. Air pollutants can affect biodiversity and ecosystem services, harm human health...
EO4cultivar
Published date 2020-11-20Project Introduction The EO4cultivar Project aims to increase the resilience and sustainability of commercial agricultural supply chains operating between Colombia, Peru, Paraguay and the UK. The proj...
Marine Activities and Pressures Mapping
Published date 2019-05-01JNCC actively collaborates with industry (e.g. Oil & Gas UK, Subsea UK, Crown Estate) and governmental organisations (e.g. Marine Management Organisation (MMO), Marine Scotland, UK Hydrographic Of...
The offshore marine environment
Published date 2019-04-09The UK governments have a shared vision for clean, healthy, safe, productive and biologically diverse oceans and seas. JNCC has responsibility for nature conservation in the offshore marine environmen...
Advice
Published date 2019-04-08Good policy-making, planning, development and risk management all depend on good advice, based on reliable and up-to-date evidence on biodiversity status and trends, as well as an understanding of the...
Improving global co-ordination & action
Published date 2019-05-25Many of the issues facing biodiversity, such as climate change, require concerted action at broader scales, in particular at a global scale. There are a range of frameworks to enable this, including i...
Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and contiguous Atlantic Areas (ACCOBAMS)
Published date 2019-05-02As with other cetaceans worldwide, the whales, dolphins, and porpoises of the Mediterranean and Black Seas move between their breeding, feeding and over-wintering ranges, or follow their prey over lon...
Marine birds and offshore industries
Published date 2019-05-08There are 119 species of bird which make significant use of the marine environment around the UK (seabirds, seaducks and diving birds). These will interact with various offshore industry activities in...
Queenie Corner MPA
Published date 2024-04-19Status: Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ) Queenie Corner MCZ is located in the western part of the Irish Sea. The seabed is dominated by mud habitat and sea-pen and burrowing megafauna communities. Site ...
Oceans & climate change
Published date 2021-06-08Our oceans, seas and coastal environments have an important role to play in helping to reduce the overall impacts of climate change, for example by absorbing and locking up atmospheric carbon and by p...