Kittiwake © Matt
Parsons/JNCC
Seabird trends and causes of change
Latest seabird trends reveal drivers of change
Seabird Population Trends and Causes of Change: 2010 is a NEW
online report published by JNCC on behalf of the Seabird Monitoring
Programme Partnership. It provides the latest status report on the
UK’s internationally important breeding seabird populations and
helps to identify the likely drivers of change.
Alder - Alnus
glutinosa. © Northern Ireland Environment Agency
UK Biodiversity Indicators
UK Biodiversity Indicators update
The 2010 edition of the UK Biodiversity Indicators shows changes in
the status of species and habitats, pressures on them, and
responses to those pressures. The indicators are National
Statistics produced by Defra and JNCC, on behalf of the UK
Biodiversity Partnership, using a wide variety of information from
many organisations.
Marwick Head © Tim
Dunn
Charting Progress 2: The State of UK Seas
Marine community launches second audit of UK seas
Charting Progress 2 - the largest and most comprehensive assessment
ever undertaken of how "clean, healthy, safe, productive and
biologically diverse" UK seas are. Read more about JNCC's view of
the report.
Graphoderus zonatus
© Jonty Denton
A review of the scarce and threatened Coleoptera of Great
Britain. Part 3: Water beetles
Latest Species Status report published
This review is unique because it is ecologically-based
covering a range of beetle families in several sub-orders. The
review assesses three hundred and eleven taxa of which 35 taxa are
found to be threatened using the IUCN criteria and 84 are
Nationally Scarce
Deep sea life on
Wyville Thomson Ridge: a white antipatharian, featherstars,
anemones and a number of orange sea spiders (pycnogonids) on cobbly
seabed. Wyville Thomson Ridge is one of six offshore Special Areas
of Conservation identified by JNCC that have been submitted to the
European Commission in August 2010 © Crown Copyright, all rights
reserved
Fifteen new areas to give protection to UK seas
Protecting important habitats and species
Fifteen new marine protected areas have been submitted to the
European Commission by JNCC for inclusion in the Natura 2000
network of European sites. Their creation more than doubles the
area of UK seas inside marine protected areas.