Summary

Chairman's Intro

• Introduction by JNCC's Chairman, Adrian Darby OBE

Making a big difference in Small Islands

• JNCC publishes an Environmental Economics Toolkit

The full story and pictures

• JNCC's Annual Report 2006/2007 is now available

Cycle to work scheme

• Coinciding with Bike Week (16-24 June), JNCC was delighted to announce the availability of a Government-approved scheme open to its employees

New challenge for plants

• Plant Diversity Challenge update

Offshore comes to the fore

• JNCC working to identify SACs in UK offshore waters

Landslides for JNCC

• Mass Movements in Great Britain, Volume 33 of the GCR series, published

Getting real on greenhouse gases

• The links between Climate Change and Biodiversity

CITES CoP14 at The Hague

• JNCC advise Defra-led delegation on scientific issues relating to fauna

Candid canyon camera captures coral

• JNCC's Marine Team conduct a survey to explore the deep underwater canyons at the edge of the continental shelf

MESH seabed success

• MESH Project Partners, led by JNCC, organise international conference

Action on overseas invaders

• Workshop on invasive species in the UK Overseas Territories

"Mind the gaps" urge biodiversity experts

• Efforts to improve coordination of biodiversity research as JNCC provides Secretariat for UKBRAG

A touch of habitat classification

• The European context of British lowland grasslands report

Mammal pilots on trail!

• 2007 update of the Tracking Mammals Partnership

Biodiversity - climate interactions: adaptation, mitigation and human livelihoods

• Meeting investigates opportunities to maximise ecosystem management to benefit climate change, biodiversity and human well-being

Updating the register

• Seabird database gets a facelift after 21 years

Data analysis for the birds

• JNCC presents overview of seabird monitoring in Europe at International Conference 

Conservation Conversation

• Q & A with independent Committee member Professor Michael Usher