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PoMS Annual Report 2024
Published date 2025-06-23The UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (PoMS), which engages thousands of citizen scientists to record insects on surveys across the UK countryside and gardens, is emphasising the value of having a wide ...
Firth of Forth Banks Complex MPA
Published date 2024-08-22Status: Nature Conservation Marine Protected Area (Nature Conservation MPA)The Firth of Forth Banks Complex MPA is located in offshore waters to the east of Scotland, and includes the Berwick, Scalp a...
Marine habitats and offshore industries
Published date 2020-05-06JNCC's Role JNCC provides nature conservation advice throughout all stages of the licensing process for offshore developments to Government, regulators, industry, consultants and many others. This inc...
Joint Committee
Published date 2025-09-01The Joint Committee leads JNCC and has overall responsibility for our work. Members discuss strategic nature conservation and organisational issues as well as making high-level advice, strategy, fundi...
Marine Noise Registry
Published date 2020-07-01JNCC developed, hosts and maintains the UK Marine Noise Registry (MNR), guided by and on behalf of Defra and its devolved administrations. The registry records human activities in UK seas that produce...
UK SAC changes
Published date 2021-01-31Provided here is a summary of the changes to the network of Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) in the UK – either newly classified SACs or updates or amendments to existing SACs – up to the end of D...
Professor Julia Jones
Published date 2025-08-20Role: Independent Member & Co-Chair of the Chief Scientists' Group (CSG)Date appointed: 1 June 2025ProfileJulia Jones is Professor of Conservation Science in the School of Environmental and Natura...
Supporting sustainable shark tourism in the Maldives
Published date 2025-04-04Shark sanctuaries are areas of the ocean designated to provide safe havens for sharks and can become ecotourism hotspots for divers eager to experience a shark up close. However, ensuring that the div...
GSMP update
Published date 2022-08-30The Goose and Swan Monitoring Programme (GSMP) is changing. Today, JNCC and NatureScot have formed a partnership with the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) to take forward this important survey sche...
Pobie Bank Reef Survey 0923S (Blog #2): Hide and Seek at Pobie Bank Reef
Published date 2023-08-18Find out the latest from our offshore survey team. In their second blog post on their survey of the Pobie Bank Reef Special Area of Conservation (Survey 0923S), being undertaken with colleagues from t...