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Seabird censuses
Published date 2023-11-16Periodic seabird censuses across Britain and Ireland are also undertaken in addition to the annual seabird monitoring scheme (SMP). To date, there have been four completed breeding seabird censuses fo...
Our website is 1!
Published date 2020-07-03This time last year, we published our new website, and we're now proud to celebrate its first birthday! We started off small, with only around a few hundred pages and resources, and have spent the pas...
Mind the gap
Published date 2020-12-17Identifying and filling gaps in biodiversity evidence: the development of the National Plant Monitoring Scheme Despite the challenges and hardships that we've all face during 2020, a significant miles...
National Bat Monitoring Programme
Published date 2024-11-19The NBMP is the only UK-wide programme that monitors bats and changes to their populations. There are 17 resident bat species in the UK, and the data gathered by hundreds of dedicated volunteers enabl...
Pobie Bank Reef Blog #1
Published date 2020-08-21This summer JNCC and Marine Scotland Science will be undertaking a survey of Pobie Bank Reef Special Area of Conservation, a Marine Protected Area (MPA) off the East coast of Shetland. Pobie Bank Ree...
How do we incentivise more investment in green infrastructure to reduce flood risk?
Published date 2024-10-23Accelerating green finance needs clear focus on who the investors are and the drivers for that investment. In today’s blog we discuss how addressing flood risk should be a key area but it’s not clear ...
Monitoring peatland using Earth observation data
Published date 2021-03-16Monitoring of peatland condition has traditionally relied on ground-based surveys; however, some of our recent work suggests that Earth observation may provide a cost-effective dynamic method for larg...
Wormy reflections - Blog #5
Published date 2019-09-09Earlier this summer, we were delighted to announce the discovery of a new species of polychaete worm. As our previous blog posts have been describing, we are currently back at West Shetland Shelf Mari...
New year, new Environmental Improvement Plan
Published date 2023-02-17In our latest blog post, Lucy Lush, our England Science and Evidence Liaison Officer, talks about the new Environmental Improvement Plan and her role within JNCC. The race to restore nature and revers...
Find out about the latest updates to the Global Environmental Impacts of Consumption (GEIC) indicator
Published date 2023-11-22Our latest blog post is from Nicki du Plessis, Maddie Harris, and Ellie Wood, from our Ecosystems Analysis Team. In this post, they provide an overview of the noteworthy improvements to the Global Env...