Kittiwake©Matt Parsons/JNCC
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
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
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
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

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
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.

Back to basics

What is biodiversity?

Biodiversity is simply the web of life on Earth - a hugely diverse range of species, genes and ecosystems.

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Natural Solutions

Aircraft design

Learning from biodiversity's flying machines.

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