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UK Offshore Marine Protected Areas
This resource contains boundary, site and feature information for designated UK Offshore Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). Offshore MPAs include Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs),... -
Special Protection Areas (SPAs) with marine components (all UK waters)
This resource contains boundary, site and feature information for Special Protection Areas (SPAs) with marine components in UK waters. A shapefile and spreadsheet are available... -
UK Atlas of Seabed Habitats: UKSeaMap Predictive Map v2026.1
The UKSeaMap Predictive Habitats Map 2026 is a broad-scale prediction that uses physical models of depth, light, sediment and energy to predict the physical seabed habitats for... -
UK Biodiversity Indicator C5, Birds of the wider countryside and at sea
This spreadsheet is the underlying data for the biodiversity indicator C5, Birds of the wider countryside and at sea. Bird populations have long been considered to provide a... -
UK Offshore Marine Protected Areas
The following spreadsheet holds information on all offshore Marine Protected Areas in the UK (beyond 12 nautical miles from baseline). These include Marine Conservation Zones... -
All UK Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) with marine components
This spreadsheet contains the most up to date version of boundaries of inshore and offshore SACs with marine components, including sites that straddle the inshore/offshore... -
UK OSPAR Marine Protected Areas
This spreadsheet contains information on all UK OSPAR Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) that have been nominated to the OSPAR Commission. The OSPAR Commission is promoting the... -
All UK Special Protected Areas (SPAs) with marine components
This spreadsheet contains Special Protection Areas (SPAs) with marine components are defined as those sites with qualifying Birds Directive (2009/147/EC) Annex I species or... -
UK National Site Network (SAC and SPA): site summary details spreadsheet
This spreadsheet contains the latest UK-wide data gathered as part of the Standard Data Form (SDF) information completed for all sites in the UK National Site Network. It... -
GB Red List dataset
This file details the information of “taxa” in Great Britain that have been undergone an IUCN Red List assessment for Great Britain (GB). JNCC collates information on taxa that... -
Conservation Designations for UK Taxa
This collection of files details the conservation designations of over 15,000 UK "taxa" that have been assigned some form of rarity, threat or legal status in Great Britain or... -
Marine habitat correlation tables
Version 2026.02. The correlation spreadsheet is currently the only tool publicly available to investigate UK marine habitat correlations. This correlation spreadsheet is updated... -
Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) with marine components (all UK waters)...
This resource has been archived. You can find the most recent version at the following location: https://jncc.gov.uk/resources/598a60db-9323-4781-b5a8-dcf0ca3b29f9. -
Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) with marine components (all UK waters)
This resource contains boundary, site and feature information for Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) with marine components in UK waters. Special Areas of Conservation (SACs)... -
UK Offshore Marine Protected Areas (archived)
This resource has been archived. You can find the most recent version at the following location: https://jncc.gov.uk/resources/ade43f34-54d6-4084-b66a-64f0b4a5ef27. -
Boundaries of Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) of Great Britain...
This resource contains the spatial dataset of Special Areas of Conservation in Great Britain (excluding offshore areas), last updated in March 2026. The date of the latest... -
Boundaries of Special Protection Areas (SPAs) of Great Britain (including...
This resource contains the spatial dataset of Special Protection Area boundaries in Great Britain (including offshore areas), last updated on March 2026. The date of the latest... -
Distributions of wintering red-throated diver, little gull, and common...
This dataset provides distribution data (Kernel Density Estimates) for waterbirds in the Greater Wash area. The methods used to generate these shapefiles can be found in JNCC... -
UK Atlas of Seabed Habitats: Mosaic of Localised Maps v2025.1
The UK Atlas of Seabed Habitats (UKASH) Mosaic of Localised Maps is a composite of multiple data sources in the form of polygons. It takes the Library of Localised Maps and... -
Seabirds Count Datasets
The results from Seabirds Count, the fourth census of Britain and Ireland’s internationally important populations of breeding seabirds, were published on 16 November 2023. Over...