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Offshore MPAs
Published date 2023-07-05This page provides links to the Site Information Centres (SICs), which have been developed for designated offshore MPAs in the UK. Information about MPAs located in both territorial and offshore water...
Marine habitat data product: national priority habitats
Published date 2024-05-17These products contribute to the evidence needed to support the designation and maintenance of an ecologically coherent network of Marine Protected Areas under the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 a...
NBMP Annual Report 2023
Published date 2024-05-30The latest annual results of the National Bat Monitoring Programme, including data up to the end of summer 2023, are now available on the Bat Conservation Trust website.The National Bat Monitoring Pro...
Nature Conservation MPAs
Published date 2019-05-02Nature Conservation Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are a type of marine protected area that can be designated in Scottish territorial and offshore waters. Nature Conservation MPAs protect a range of na...
Wight-Barfleur Reef MPA
Published date 2024-04-19Please be advised that, as of 22 March 2024, new fisheries management measures are in force for Wight-Barfleur Reef Special Area of Conservation (SAC). For more information about what these fisheries ...
West Wales Marine MPA
Published date 2023-03-31The West Wales Marine SAC is located off the coast of Wales, from the Llŷn peninsula in the north, to Pembrokeshire in the south-west, and has been identified as an area of importance for harbour porp...
Southern North Sea MPA
Published date 2023-03-31The Southern North Sea SAC has been identified as an area of importance for harbour porpoise. This site falls off the east coast of England and includes key winter and summer habitat for this species....
JNCC’s Environmental Pollution Programme team visits South Africa
Published date 2024-07-29In this blog post, Isabella Gosetto, Natasha Hunt and Saskia Mori from our Environmental Pollution Programme team tell us about a recent visit to South Africa.In March this year, members of JNCC’s Env...
Citizen scientists: a way forward to record habitat data?
Published date 2024-07-22In our latest blog post, Senior Ecosystem Analyst Maddie Harris, highlights a recent study, which explores the roles citizen scientists could play in recording habitat data. Recording habitat data is ...
Inner Dowsing, Race Bank and North Ridge
Published date 2024-04-19Please be advised that the conservation advice package for Inner Dowsing, Race Bank and North Ridge SAC was published on 5 October 2023. As the site lies across the 12 nm territorial sea limit the adv...