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Bern Convention
Published date 2023-03-16The Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (the Bern Convention) was adopted in Bern, Switzerland in 1979, and came into force in 1982. It is a binding international ...
Wyville Thomson Ridge MPA
Published date 2024-11-25Status: Special Area of Conservation (SAC) The Wyville Thomson Ridge is a rocky plateau situated in the Atlantic Ocean to the north-eastern part of the Rockall Trough. Site Situated in the Atlantic Oc...
Monitoring strategies
Published date 2024-11-19The complexity of the natural environment, coupled with limited monitoring resources, both financial and material, mean that environmental monitoring schemes need to be well designed and targeted. A w...
MPA Adaptive Management
Published date 2019-05-19The seas around the UK are a rich resource, providing us with food, a valuable income, raw materials, and opportunities for leisure and recreation. Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are tools to support t...
Marine Benthic Data Standards
Published date 2019-05-29JNCC complies with relevant and existing benthic data standards where possible, enabling data to flow, be combined, processed, and shared between and within organisations with greater efficiency. MEDI...
Haig Fras MPA
Published date 2024-04-19Please be advised that, as of 22 March 2024, new fisheries management measures are in force for Haig Fras Special Area of Conservation (SAC). For more information about what these fisheries measures a...
Land use
Published date 2019-05-22Nature is in crisis around the world. On land, species and habitats are in decline and ecosystem processes are failing. We are facing intertwined crises: ecological collapse and climate breakdown whic...
Solan Bank Reef MPA
Published date 2024-08-23Status: Special Area of Conservation (SAC) Solan Bank Reef is located 50 km from the Scottish mainland, north of Cape Wrath. The reef is situated on a geological feature known as 'Solan Bank High'. Si...
Marine habitat data product: OSPAR threatened and/or declining habitats
Published date 2024-05-14These composite products aim to show the current best understanding of the distribution and extent of habitats on the OSPAR list of threatened and/or declining habitats in the UK and the wider north-e...
Skomer, Skokholm and the Seas off Pembrokeshire MPA
Published date 2019-04-23Status: Special Protection Area (SPA) Skomer, Skokholm and the Seas off Pembrokeshire SPA / Sgomer, Sgogwm a Moroedd Penfro (hereafter referred to as Skomer, Skokholm and the Seas off Pembrokeshire SP...