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UK Biodiversity indicators

A snapshot of the current status of biodiversity in the UK and how it’s changing.

From:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Published
26 May 2012
Last updated
2 December 2025 — See all updates

Documents

UK Biodiversity Indicators

https://jncc.gov.uk/our-work/uk-biodiversity-indicators/

Details

The UK Biodiversity Indicators give a snapshot of the current status of biodiversity in the UK and how it’s changing. There is also a closely related suite of indicators at the England scale.

As an accredited official statistics compendium, their development and production is underpinned by the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value set out in the Code of Practice for Statistics.

The indicator suite is updated on an annual basis.

This publication contains information on the background and development of the UK Biodiversity Indicators, contact details, and further information on official statistics. There are also webpages for each individual indicator and an overview of the latest results available.

Defra statistics: Biodiversity and Wildlife

Updates to this page

Published 26 May 2012
Last updated 2 December 2025 show all updates

  1. Annual update.

  2. Annual update.

  3. Annual update November 2023.

  4. Major amendments to the text of the landing page.

  5. Amendments to links to blog article and summary of the review.

  6. Annual update.

  7. Typos in the review summary amended.

  8. Attachment added detailing Defra and Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) review of Biodiversity Indicators.

  9. Booklet updated and text amended.

  10. Link to the UK Biodiversity Indicators page on the JNCC website corrected.

  11. Revisions made.

  12. 2021 edition published.

  13. Annual update including 2020 Biodiversity Indicators data for the UK.

  14. Revisions to four indicators.

  15. Annual update.

  16. 2018 update published.

  17. Revision to UK Biodiversity Indicators booklet.

  18. This is the 2017 update to the report on UK progress towards meeting the biodiversity goals and targets ‘the Aichi targets’ agreed in 2010.

  19. Update to publication: Indicator C9a: Animal Genetic Resources was corrected and updated 30 November 2016

  20. Updated publication.

  21. Publication of the UK biodiversity indicators delayed until 19 January 2016 due to statistical reasons.

  22. UK biodiversity indicators for 2014 published

  23. 2013 edition

  24. First published.

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