An important part of JNCC's work concerns species
conservation. This includes giving advice on UK policy and
legislation regarding species, as well as commissioning and
supporting surveillance and monitoring schemes to assess and report
upon the changing status of species in the UK.
Consultation on the 5th Quinquennial
Review
Every five years, the statutory nature conservation agencies
(Natural England, Countryside Council for Wales and Scottish
Natural Heritage), working jointly through the Joint Nature
Conservation Committee (JNCC), are required to review Schedules 5
and 8 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, and to make
recommendations to the Secretary of State and Ministers for the
Environment. Schedule 5 lists animals (other than birds) which are
specially protected, and Schedule 8 lists plants which are
specially protected. The Fifth Quinquennial Review round is now
underway and it is planned to submit recommendations to the
Secretary of State later in 2008.
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Avian Influenza
Position statement on avian influenza
issued by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee on behalf of
English Nature (now known as Natural England), Countryside Council
for Wales, Scottish Natural Heritage and Environment and Heritage
Service Northern Ireland.
Further
information on avian influenza and advice to
birdwatchers.
Every five years the Joint Nature Conservation Committee
(JNCC) advises Government on which animals and plants should be
legally protected by listing on Schedule 5 (animals) and Schedule 8
(plants) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981. The
Quinquennial Review of protected species is carried out by staff
from JNCC and the three country agencies (Countryside Council for
Wales, Natural England (formally English Nature) and Scottish
Natural Heritage), who together comprise the Fourth Quinquennial
Review Working Group.
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Species Status Assessment project
The Species Status Assessment
project assigns conservation status to our flora and fauna using
the internationally-approved IUCN Red Data Book criteria and
categories. These reviews are published in a new series
entitles
Species Status. Some reviews will include
detailed data sheets, giving biological and other information
relevant for conserving each species (for example, the Diptera
reviews,
Species Status numbers 2 and 3), while others
will list the new conservation status assigned to each species,
with supporting reasons and evidence for these judgements.
The
Species Status reviews can be purchased as paper
publications from
NHBS, at a cost of £15 plus
p&p or downloaded as electronic PDF files free
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download species status assessment
publications.
The first publications, issued in
April 2005, are:
Falk, S.J. and Chandler, P.J. (2005)
A review of the scarce and threatened flies of
Great Britain. Part 2: Nematocera and Aschiza.
Species Status 2: 1-189. Joint
Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough.
Falk, S.J. and Crossley, R. (2005)
A review of the scarce and threatened Flies of
Great Britain. Part 3: Empidoidea. Species
Status 3: 1-134. Joint Nature
Conservation Committee, Peterborough.
Cheffings, C.M. and Farrell, L.
(Eds) (2005)
The Vascular Plant Red Data List for Great
Britain.
Species Status 7:
1-116. Joint Nature Conservation Committee,
Peterborough.
JNCC has collated these and other
red data book listings, and made them available as a
downloadable spreadsheet of conservation
designations. This collation also includes legislative
lists.
Mammal Surveillance and Monitoring in the UK
JNCC and 22 other organisations with
varied interests in mammals have formed the Tracking Mammals
Partnership.
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Biological Records Centre: Report 1999-2004
This report highlights major
achievements, including new atlases and improved data access
via the NBN Gateway.
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Biological Translocation
Policies
Translocation is a term for the transfer by human kind of any
organism from one place to another. JNCC has prepared policy
guidance dealing with species translocations for conservation
purposes, and dealing with habitats translocation. This has been
done in conjunction with the country conservation agencies in
England, Scotland and Wales (a separate initiative is dealing with
Northern Ireland).
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