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Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
Published date 2025-02-17What is IPBES? In 2012 the world’s governments agreed to establish the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) as a mechanism for strengthening the glo...
The Crick Framework
Published date 2019-05-23The Crick Framework was proposed during the MEOW project. The Crick Framework is a way to categorise how well EO techniques can be used to identify habitats and features on the ground. About the frame...
Convention on Wetlands
Published date 2025-01-20Convention summary The Convention on Wetlands (aka The Ramsar Convention) was adopted in Ramsar, Iran in February 1971 and came into force in December 1975. It provides the only international mechanis...
Terrestrial biodiversity monitoring
Published date 2024-11-19Terrestrial monitoring involves gathering information about the various components of the UK biodiversity, from genes to ecosystems. Despite providing people essential services such as food production...
Earth Observation
Published date 2019-04-29JNCC has expertise in the field of Earth Observation (EO) and uses this to provide high-quality evidence on biodiversity and ecosystems to inform decisions affecting the environment. Through using ope...
Conservation of Small Cetaceans in the Baltic, North-East Atlantic, Irish and North Seas (ASCOBANS)
Published date 2019-05-02Small cetaceans are found in nearly all the world's seas and in some inland waters. Many species occur in the North East Atlantic and adjacent seas. These dolphins and porpoises, in common with others...
Haisborough, Hammond and Winterton MPA
Published date 2025-04-30Status: Special Area of Conservation (SAC)Haisborough, Hammond and Winterton MPA is located off of the north-east coast of Norfolk, encompassing a wide range of sandbank types and biogenic reef. The s...
UKBI - Global biodiversity impact
Published date 2024-12-10Last updated: 2024Latest data available: 2022IntroductionThis indicator estimates the global environmental impacts of UK consumption of agricultural crop commodities (and additionally for some metrics...
UKBI - Pollinating insects
Published date 2024-12-10Last updated: 2024Latest data available: 2022IntroductionThis indicator reports changes in the distribution of some key pollinator groups (bees and hoverflies) in the UK. The indicator is based on 394...
UKBI - Birds of the wider countryside and at sea
Published date 2024-12-10Last updated: 2024Latest data available: 2023IntroductionThe indicator shows relative changes in the abundance of common native birds of farmland and woodland and of freshwater and marine habitats in ...