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Severe weather announcement January 2025
Published date 2025-01-15As a result of the improved weather conditions, today (Wednesday 15 January 2025), the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has lifted the call for restraint in the shooting of wat...
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...
Professor Thomas Meagher
Published date 2025-01-02Role: Independent Interim ChairDate appointed: 1 January 2025ProfileTom Meagher is Professor of Plant Biology at the University of St Andrews and served as Director of the St Andrews Global Challenges...
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...
Updated guidance aims to protect sealife from underwater noise
Published date 2025-02-03In support of targeted changes in the management of underwater noise to protect vulnerable sealife, JNCC has updated its marine mammal mitigation guidelines for minimising the risk of injury to marine...
OWSMRF
Published date 2025-02-10What is OWSMRF? The Offshore Wind Strategic Monitoring and Research Forum (OWSMRF) is an industry-led collaborative forum that aims to better understand the impact of large-scale offshore wind develop...
Audit and Risk Assurance Committee
Published date 2025-02-14JNCC’s Audit and Risk Assurance Committee (ARAC) is an advisory and commissioning committee which supports and advises the Joint Committee and the Accounting Officer on issues of risk, control, govern...
JNCC Bulletin January/February 2023
Published date 2025-03-03The latest (January/February 2023) edition of our Bulletin is now available, and provides an update on some of our recent projects and activities, both in the UK and internationally, in a short at-a-g...
JNCC Bulletin August–September 2022
Published date 2025-03-03The latest (August/September 2022) edition of our Bulletin is now available and provides an update on some of our recent projects and activities, both in the UK and internationally, in a short at-a-gl...
JNCC Bulletin April-May 2022
Published date 2025-03-03The latest (April–May 2022) edition of our Bulletin is now available, and provides an update on some of our recent projects and activities, both in the UK and internationally, in a short at-a-glance f...