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UK Marine Biodiversity Monitoring Programme

Published date 2019-04-29

UK Governments have a vision for clean, healthy, safe, productive and biologically diverse oceans and seas. We can only understand if we are achieving this vision through the collection of monitoring ...


Collaborative working

Published date 2024-11-19

Collaborative and partnership working is integral to most of our biodiversity monitoring. Our terrestrial monitoring schemes are run in partnership with non-governmental organisations, statutory bodie...


Marine Protected Areas

Published date 2019-04-09

The offshore marine environment supports a diverse range of benthic habitats, and many important species, including seabirds and marine mammals.  Our statutory remit in the offshore environment means ...


The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals

Published date 2019-04-18

The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (Bonn Convention or CMS) was adopted in Bonn, Germany in 1979 and came into force in 1983. Convention summary Contracting Partie...


Dogger Bank MPA

Published date 2024-04-19

Please be advised that, as of 13 June 2022, fisheries management measures came into force for Dogger Bank SAC. For more information about what these fisheries measures are, please visit the gov.uk web...


Dolphin Head HPMA

Published date 2024-04-19

Status: Highly Protected Marine Area (HPMA) The Dolphin Head HPMA is located approximately 55 km South of Selsey Bill, West Sussex, in the Eastern Channel region, and partially overlaps with the Offsh...


UKBI - Value of subsidies and other incentives harmful to biodiversity

Published date 2024-12-10

Last 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 (C...


Transparency and Accountability

Published date 2019-06-28

Achieving greater transparency of public sector procurement and contracting Government has set out the need for greater transparency across its operations to enable the public to hold public bodies an...


Inter-agency Air Pollution Group (IAPG)

Published date 2019-04-17

Air pollution is a significant pressure on biodiversity.  It is a transboundary issue and much of air pollution policy is driven by requirements at UK or international level. To support harmonisation ...


Wildlife & Countryside Act

Published date 2020-02-04

The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 was enacted primarily to implement the Birds Directive and Bern Convention in Great Britain. The Act received royal assent on 30 October 1981 and was brought into...



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