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Article 12 Report 2019
Published date 2019-12-16Reporting obligations under the Birds Directive are set out in Article 12, which requires reports on implementation of the Directive every six years. The 11th UK report was submitted to the European C...
MPA monitoring
Published date 2019-05-07JNCC has a dual responsibility for monitoring of seabed habitats and species in UK Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).UK co-ordination: working together with our partners in UK Governments and the country ...
Butterfly statistics 2020
Published date 2021-09-17Official Statistics for composite trends of butterflies in the UK between 1976 and 2020 were published on Thursday 16 September 2021, showing how habitat specialists and species of the wider countrysi...
'Sustaining queen conch fisheries and livelihoods in the Turks and Caicos Islands': project visit
Published date 2023-06-19Our latest blog is from Becky Austin, former Senior Cites Policy Advisor, who visited the Turks and Caicos Islands, a UK Overseas Territory located in the Caribbean, earlier in the year as part of the...
LS.LBR.LMus Littoral mussel beds on sediment
Published date 2015-03Sediment shores characterised by beds of adult mussels Mytilus edulis occur principally on mid and lower eulittoral mixed substrata (mainly cobbles and pebbles on muddy sediments) in a wide range of e...
LR Littoral rock (and other hard substrata)
Published date 2015-03Littoral rock includes habitats of bedrock, boulders and cobbles which occur in the intertidal zone (the area of the shore between high and low tides) and the splash zone. The upper limit is marked by...
LR.MLR.BF.FvesB Fucus vesiculosus and barnacle mosaics on moderately exposed mid eulittoral rock
Published date 2015-03Exposed to moderately exposed mid eulittoral bedrock and boulders are frequently characterised by a mosaic of the barnacle Semibalanus balanoides and the wrack Fucus vesiculosus. The limpet Patella vu...
SS.SMu.ISaMu.NhomMac Nephtys hombergii and Macoma balthica in infralittoral sandy mud
Published date 2015-03Near-shore shallow sandy muds and muds, and sometimes mixed sediments, may be characterised by the presence of the polychaete Nephtys hombergii and the bivalve Macoma balthica. Abra alba, and Nucula n...
LS.LCS Littoral coarse sediment
Published date 2015-03Littoral coarse sediments include shores of mobile pebbles, cobbles and gravel, sometimes with varying amounts of coarse sand. The sediment is highly mobile and subject to high degrees of drying betwe...
LR.FLR.Eph.UlvPor Porphyra purpurea and Ulva spp. on sand-scoured mid or lower eulittoral rock
Published date 2015-03Exposed and moderately exposed mid-shore bedrock and boulders occurring adjacent to areas of sand which significantly affects the rock. As a consequence of sand-abrasion, wracks such as Fucus vesiculo...