JNCC has published a Post-2010 Biodiversity Framework for the UK. Provides a useful overview of the various strategy documents and progress towards implementation for the four countries of the UK
From Cranfield University for the UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), an environmental futures horizon scanning newsletter.
A new website resource from the UK environment department DEFRA on the ecosystem approach: the Ecosystem Knowlege Network. Announces a workshop in late June 2012 on urban application.
The UK environment department - Defra - has been running a national forum for policy, science, business and others on the ecosystem approach: the Natural Capital Initiative. Just launched under the NCI is the Ecosystems Knowledge Network to allow sharing of information and knowledge.
There is a loose UK network of organisations collecting and communicating data. A key focus is the UK Defra Non-Native Species Secretariat (NNSS)
Recording Invasive Species Counts (RISC) programme. In collaboration with the NERC CEH - Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (the Biological Records Centre) - it provides reporting software that gathers information - with links to the National Biodiversity Network. Species and corresponding organisations collaborating in RISC are: /more.....Animals:
Plants:
And outside the RISC programme, there are other mapping and recording schemes that capture invasive data:
These are the citizen science/mass observation projects. There are many more species listed, research project and eradication initiatives listed on the GB Non-Native Species Secretariat site.
