Summary

• Introduction by JNCC's Chair, Peter Bridgewater.

• The draft Bill sets out a series of wideranging proposals that aim to implement a sustainable approach to the management of human activities and deliver environmental protection.

• JNCC's Annual Report 2007/2008 is now available

• The 2006 results from the Seabird Monitoring Programme, which is co-ordinated by JNCC in partnership with several organisations, have just been published.

• The contribution that Geoconservation Manager Neil Ellis has made to geological conservation has been recognised by the Council of the Geological Society of London.
  

• This year, JNCC has played a lead role in developing a mechanism for assessing the state of seabird communities in the North-East Atlantic.

• The Ramsar Convention Standing Committee has presented the Ramsar Wetland Conservation Award and Evian Special Prize for 2008 in the category ‘science’ to Joint Committee member David Pritchard.

• On 28 May this year England, Scotland and Wales launched the Invasive Non-Native Species Framework Strategy for Great Britain, the first co-rdinated plan to reduce the threat to Britain’s native biodiversity from invasive non-native species.

• The theme of this year’s conference was Deep-sea marine benthic habitats and high seas Marine Protected Areas.

• The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is one of the threeglobal conventions born out of the Rio summit in 1992.

Martyn Ibbotson

• Martyn Ibbotson was tragically killed in a road-traffic accident in London on the evening of 9 June 2008.

UK BAP

• an update on progress

Building the evidence base for the future

• Biodiversity surveillance is a large and complex area, with many organisations providing a very wide range of data and information.

Green Week reception

• An evening with Pavan Sukhdev

• In this issue we focus on Professor Lynda Warren, Deputy Chair and independent Joint Committee member