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Wildlife & Countryside Act
Published date 2020-02-04The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 was enacted primarily to implement the Birds Directive and Bern Convention in Great Britain. The Act received royal assent on 30 October 1981 and was brought into...
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...
Professor Julian Orford
Published date 2021-10-01Role: Deputy Chair of Council for Nature Conservation and the CountrysideDate appointed: October 2021ProfileProfessor Julian Orford is Emeritus Professor of Physical Geography in the School of Natural...
Conservation designations for UK taxa – updates
Published date 2023-12-06The list shown below itemises the lists that have been added to the collation of conservation designations for UK taxa, and any updates or amendments, between April 2004 and December 2023. Date of upd...
Black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)
Published date 2021-05-20The following has been adapted from original text by Martin Heubeck in Seabird Populations of Britain and Ireland (with permission from A&C Black, London). As well as being the most numerous speci...
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 ...
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 Offsho...
Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea)
Published date 2021-05-20The following has been adapted from original text by Norman Ratcliffe in Seabird Populations of Britain and Ireland (with permission from A&C Black, London). Arctic terns are the commonest tern br...
Completed Seabed Surveys
Published date 2019-05-31Since 2003 JNCC has been commissioning and collaborating on seabed habitat mapping surveys in UK offshore waters. Our past surveys include: 2019 2018 2017 Wyville Thomson Ridge cSAC/SCI and North-east...
Common gull (Larus canus)
Published date 2021-05-20The following has been adapted from original text by Mark L. Tasker in Seabird Populations of Britain and Ireland (with permission from A&C Black, London). The common gull breeds across the Palaea...