Updated biodiversity indicators

12 Sep 2019

Monitoring breeding birds. David Tipling

The updated set of 24 Government Biodiversity Indicators for 2019 were published on 5 September. This document includes 'C5 Birds of the Wider Countryside and At Sea', which shows the changing fortunes of farmland, woodland, breeding and wintering waterbirds and seabirds from 1970 to 2017. BTO monitoring data also contribute to 'C4 Status of UK Priority Species,' with 104 bird species trends used in the measure of changes in abundance, as well as to 'A2 Taking Action for Nature: Time Spent Volunteering', 'B6 Pressure from Invasive Species', and to the new provisional 'Functional Connectivity indicator (C2)'. The 60-page downloadable report also shows progress in mainstreaming biodiversity, the impact of different pressures, the status of habitats and species, as well as expenditure and implementation.

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