Status: Special Area of Conservation (SAC)
The Wyville Thomson Ridge is a rocky plateau situated in the Atlantic Ocean to the north-eastern part of the Rockall Trough.
Status: Nature Conservation Marine Protected Area (Nature Conservation MPA)
The West Shetland Shelf MPA lies to the north of Scotland in offshore waters 70–150 m deep.
The BRC works alongside and provides support for over 100 national recording schemes and societies, with a particular emphasis on recording species’ distributions and how these change over time. …
To celebrate Clean Air Day 2026, in our latest blog post we share some insights from the Clean Air Public Insight Tracker (CAPIT) survey.
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We have launched a new interactive red list dashboard, providing information on the threat status of red-listed species in Great Britain.
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The latest annual results from the National Bat Monitoring Programme (NBMP), incorporating data collected up to and including summer 2025, have recently been released.
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