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Stanton Banks MPA
Published date 2024-08-23Status: Special Area of Conservation (SAC) The Stanton Banks are a series of granite ridges up to 160 m tall that protrude from the seabed, situated south of the Outer Hebrides. Site Located south of ...
Nature Recovery Joint Statement
Published date 2022-11-22In November 2022, the UK's Statutory Nature Conservation Bodies published a Joint Statement entitled Nature Recovery for Our Survival, Prosperity and Wellbeing. The Statement highlights the critical r...
Our role
Published date 2019-04-09JNCC is the public body that advises the UK Government and devolved administrations on UK-wide and international nature conservation. As a public body, we also work with business and society. Natur...
Sustainable development overseas
Published date 2019-05-08The UK Government invests a considerable annual sum through overseas development aid or assistance, the aims of which are to defeat poverty, tackle instability and create prosperity in developing coun...
OSPAR Convention
Published date 2019-04-18The Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR Convention) was adopted in Paris, France in September 1992 and entered into force in March 1998. With the ...
What is protected in MPAs?
Published date 2019-05-02Marine protected areas (MPAs) are a globally recognised tool that can help support the conservation of marine habitats and species whilst promoting sustainable use. The aim of the UK network of MPAs i...
Marine Benthic Data Dissemination
Published date 2019-05-29Marine Recorder Data collected during JNCC’s offshore surveys are collated and imported into JNCC’s Marine Recorder database system. Data are made available through the six-monthly snapshot collated b...
Monitoring
Published date 2024-11-19Monitoring provides insight into the state of the natural environment, which can tell us how it is changing and why. This information can be used to direct policies and management interventions, as w...
New UKBI review report published
Published date 2024-04-26We have recently published the second part of a comprehensive review of the UK Biodiversity Indicators, which explores the alignment of the existing UK Biodiversity Indicators with the Kunming-Montrea...
ProcBe project announcement
Published date 2023-08-03We are delighted to announce that our Marine Species Team ornithologists have recently been successful in a bid to secure funding for an exciting new 3-year research project on UK Procellariiformes (s...