Blog
Biodiversity + Business Live: Leaders Accelerating Action
Our latest blog post looks back at the Biodiversity + Business Live event, held in Edinburgh in July.
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Our work involves monitoring biodiversity, evaluating options, and providing advice, to ensure that the natural environment and its resources and services are managed and conserved sustainably, for the benefit of present and future generations. Explore our work using the A–Z, or via the links below.
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Geikie Slide and Hebridean Slope MPA
Status: Nature Conservation Marine Protected Area (Nature Conservation MPA)
Located to the north-west of Scotland, the Geikie Slide and Hebridean Slope MPA follows the descent of the seabed from …
Dolphin Head HPMA
Status: Highly Protected Marine Area (HPMA)
The Dolphin Head HPMA is located approximately 55 km South of Selsey Bill, West Sussex, in the Eastern Channel region, and partially overlaps with the Offsh…
West of Walney MPA
Status: Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ)
West of Walney MCZ is a joint inshore and offshore site situated 8 km west of Walney Island, on the Cumbrian coast of north-west England.
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Publication
New evidence to guide Northern Ireland peatland restoration
Our recently published report, produced for the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, reviews the latest evidence on peatland management actions.
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News Item
JNCC Chair and Chief Executive named as Fellows
We are delighted that our Chair and Chief Executive, Dr David Cooper and Dr Gemma Harper, have been elected as Fellows of the British Ecological Society.
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