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BOCC5
Published date 2021-12-01Birds of Conservation Concern 5 – the latest assessment of the status of all the UK’s 245 regularly occurring bird species – has been published (Wednesday 1 December 2021). This latest assessment show...
New Chief Officer Strategy and Impact
Published date 2024-01-24We are pleased to announce that Dr Chris Tuckett has been appointed to our executive leadership team in the new role of Chief Officer Strategy and Impact. Chris is an environmental biologist with a ba...
Air Pollution Bulletin Summer 2021
Published date 2021-07-28The latest (No. 10, summer 2021) Interagency Air Pollution Group Bulletin is now online. This a bumper issue that provides updates on air pollution work from around the UK, with a lot to report on sin...
Birds of Conservation Concern 5 breeding seabird update
Published date 2024-09-03The latest status assessment of breeding seabird species in the United Kingdom has been published (Monday 2 September 2024). This addendum completes the 2021 Birds of Conservation Concern 5 (BoCC5) re...
New collision risk modelling guidance
Published date 2024-08-15Guidance published today – Joint advice note from the Statutory Nature Conservation Bodies (SNCBs) regarding bird collision risk modelling for offshore wind developments – provides updated advice to h...
New global impacts reports
Published date 2021-03-19Our recently published research, produced for Defra, is exploring options for measuring the global environmental impacts of UK consumption. The consumption of products such as food and other commoditi...
Interim JNCC Chair appointment extended
Published date 2025-02-25Charles Banner KC’s appointment as Interim Chair has been extended by an additional six months, until 30 June 2024. Charles initially took up the post of Interim Chair on 21 June 2023, and will remain...
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...