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UK Marine Biodiversity Monitoring Programme
Published date 2019-04-29UK 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 ...
Scanner Pockmark MPA
Published date 2024-08-22Status: Special Area of Conservation (SAC) Scanner pockmark, located 185 km off the north-east coast of Scotland, is a seafloor depression containing Submarine structures made by leaking gases. Video ...
Collaborative working
Published date 2024-11-19Collaborative 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 mammals and offshore industries
Published date 2021-07-30UK waters are home to several marine mammal species, all of which are protected under national and international legislation. Of the 28 cetacean species recorded in UK waters, twelve can regularly be ...
Marine Protected Areas
Published date 2019-04-09The 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 2019-04-18The 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 2024-04-19Please 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 2024-04-19Status: 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 2024-12-10Last 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 2019-06-28Achieving 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...