UK Biodiversity

UK Biodiversity Indicators -

A significant amount of work by many individuals and organisations lies behind the development of the UK Biodiversity Indicators More >>

 

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The UK has developed a set of indicators to help measure progress towards the 2010 target - see Biodiversity in Your Pocket for the results of this work, and the UK Biodiversity Indicators Forum for details of a series of meetings which have hleped inform its development.

 

The Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) plays host to a Biodiversity Secretariat to help support the implementation of the Convention of Biological Diversity in the UK.

 

The Secretariat promotes the integration of Biodiversity into policies, projects and programmes within Government and beyond. It does this by using the conservation methods outlined in the UK Biodiversity Action Plan (UK BAP), UK Steering Group Report (volumes I and II), and the 391 Species Action Plans, 45 Habitat Action Plans and about 162 Local biodiversity Action Plans.

 

Supporting the work of the Secretariat is an interactive web site about UK Biodiversity - www.ukbap.org.uk/. Developed by the JNCC on behalf of the UK Biodiversity Partnership, the site allows everyone involved in implementing UK Biodiversity Action Plans (BAP's) to communicate, share information and work together, e.g. accessing species and habitat action plans and Local Biodiversity Action Plans. The website also has links to the NBN Gateway which enables the generation of local species lists and distribution maps. Find out more from www.ukbap.org.uk/