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Who we are
Published date 2019-05-23We are the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (more commonly known as JNCC), the public body that advises the UK Government and devolved administrations on UK-wide and international nature conservati...
HPAI in UK Seabirds
Published date 2022-08-25Bird Flu (HPAI H5N1) is circulating in wild birds, especially breeding seabirds around our coasts and has caused significant mortality in some species, such as Great Skua and Gannet. It’s likely that ...
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in JNCC monitoring schemes
Published date 2024-11-19JNCC believes that everyone in our organisation and across all of our work should have an opportunity to contribute to their full potential, in an inclusive and supportive environment. In order to sup...
St Helena NCA Management Plans
Published date 2024-10-23St Helena Island (STH) is one of the UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs) that lies in the South Atlantic Ocean. St Helena’s iconic, and highly endemic, biodiversity is of international importance. The Isl...
Professor Colin Galbraith
Published date 2024-04-10Role: Chair of NatureScotDate Appointed: April 2024 Profile Professor Galbraith Colin became Chair of NatureScot in June 2023. Colin is Director of his own environmental consultancy, dealing with di...
Planning for another offshore survey! - Blog #1
Published date 2020-03-06Upcoming JNCC/Cefas Survey – CEND0520 Despite the recent stormy weather, we are preparing for another offshore survey! Scientists from JNCC, Cefas and Natural England will be heading out into the Engl...
Biodiversity Recording
Published date 2024-11-19The BRC works alongside and provides support for over 100 national recording schemes and societies, with a particular emphasis on recording species’ distributions and how these change over time. The B...
History of JNCC
Published date 2019-05-23Our brief history of JNCC highlights how the organisation has evolved over the decades and how our current role, structure and relationships with other bodies have developed. Year Effect on JN...
UKBI - The proportion of populations within species with an effective population size (Ne) > 500
Published date 2024-12-10Last updated: 2024 The existing set of UK Biodiversity Indicators was specifically developed to enable the UK to report progress against the Aichi targets of the Convention on Biological Diversity (...
Pobie Bank Reef Blog #3
Published date 2020-09-02Acoustics on Pobie Bank Reef Having focussed on camera work since our arrival here (see blog #2 for more on this), we have now begun the acoustic element of the survey. We will be collecting multibea...