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UK Biodiversity Indicators 2014 2014

Abstract

Summary of the 2014 update of the UK Biodiversity Indicators, published on 4 December 2014.

Indicators are useful tools for summarising and communicating broad trends. The UK biodiversity indicators have a specific purpose for international reporting and are dependent on a wide variety of data, provided by government, research bodies, and the voluntary sector. In total, nearly 100 organisations are involved in their production. The presentation and assessment of the indicators has been verified by the data providers, and the production and editing of the indicators has been overseen by government statisticians.

The 2014 update of the UK biodiversity indicators set comprises 24 indicators and 47 measures. Of these, eight measures are not assessed in the long-term, and 12 in the short term, as the measures are either under development, or analytical methods for short-term assessment need to be refined. Fifteen of the 39 measures assessed over the long term show an improvement, compared to 14 of the 35 measures that are assessed over the short term. Twelve measures show a decline in the long term, and six a decline in the short term. Measures that improved or deteriorated in the long term have not necessarily continued to improve or deteriorate respectively in the short term.

New measures were published in 2014 for: awareness, understanding and support for conservation; integration of biodiversity considerations into business activity; priority species (frequency of occurrence); ecosystem services (pollinating insects and removal of greenhouse gas by forests); and NGO expenditure on UK biodiversity.

Additional details, including links to the documents associated with each indicator, are provided in the 2014 online update, available on The National Archives website.

Further information on the UK Biodiversity Indicators, including the latest update, is available on the UK Biodiversity Indicators webpages.

Resource type Publication

Topic category Environment

Reference date 2014·12·04

Lineage
The UK indicators were comprehensively reviewed during 2011 and 2012 to ensure they continued to be based on the most robust and reliable available data; and remained relevant to the new international goals and targets. Since then the indicators have been refined to improve their relevance/quality, and new indicators developed to fill gaps. In this version of the publication as many as possible of the indicators have been updated with new data. In some cases, however, development work is ongoing, and where this is the case, the work to develop them has been described briefly.

Responsible organisation
Communications, JNCC distributor

Limitations on public access No limitations

Use constraints Released under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Attribution statement "Contains public sector information from Defra, licenced under the Open Government Licence v3.0"

Metadata date 2020·04·02

Metadata point of contact
Communications, JNCC

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