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Becoming Nature Positive – for people and planet
Published date 2021-10-11As COP15 begins, and with COP26 less than three weeks away, the Chairs and Chief Executives of the UK’s official nature recovery agencies call for urgent collaborative action for nature. "We are the g...
Latest (2021) UK butterfly abundance statistics released
Published date 2022-03-30The latest official statistics on the abundance of UK butterflies, produced through the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS) were released on Friday 25 March 2022. This update provides population t...
Meet our new Chief Scientist
Published date 2023-03-17This week is British Science Week, and what better way to celebrate it than with a blog post from our new Chief Scientist, Dave Stone, who started at JNCC on 1 March 2023. In this post, Dave tells us ...
The Canyons Conservation Advice
Published date 2020-08-28Updated formal conservation advice for The Canyons MCZ has now been published by JNCC. This advice supersedes previous conservation advice for this site and is available via the Conservation Advice s...
Earth observation
Published date 2020-11-20Our new report shows how Earth observation imagery can be used to monitor threatened peatland habitats. Peatland covers over 10% of the UK’s land surface, and 80% of this is thought to be in damaged c...
New global impacts reports
Published date 2021-03-19Our recently published research, produced for Defra, is exploring options for measuring the global environmental impacts of UK consumption. The consumption of products such as food and other commoditi...
Coastal and marine management in TCI
Published date 2021-03-02Darwin Plus funding secured for new international partnership project in the Turks and Caicos Islands. An international partnership led by JNCC has recently been awarded Darwin Plus funding to underta...
Happy St Andrew's Day from our Scotland Liaison Officer
Published date 2021-11-30Today is St Andrew’s Day. As St Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, what better way to mark it than with a blog post from our Scotland Liaison Officer. Supporting the delivery of devolved environm...
Tropical deforestation report
Published date 2021-05-27We have recently published a new report – JNCC Report No. 681: Towards indicators of the global environmental impacts of UK consumption: Embedded Deforestation – describing the methods and draft resul...
New Chair
Published date 2021-01-29JNCC is pleased to announce that Professor Colin Galbraith has been appointed as Chair of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee. The appointment is for three years and will run from 25 January 2021 ...