Research and statistics

A strategy for England’s wildlife and ecosystem services, biodiversity indicators: 2023 assessment.

• Document type: Statistical data set
• Part of a collection: Biodiversity and wildlife statistics
• Organisation: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 8 April 2024

A strategy for England’s wildlife and ecosystem services, Biodiversity indicators: 2023 assessment.

• Document type: National Statistics
• Part of a collection: Biodiversity and wildlife statistics
• Organisation: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 3 April 2024

• Introduction to the England Biodiversity Indicators

  Data last updated: November 2023 1. Contact details Responsible…

• Assessing indicators

  Each indicator is composed of one or more measures which will show trends…

• Overview of assessment of change for all indicators and their component measures

  1. Assessment of change: all measures There are 51 individual measures…

• Official statistics

  Accredited official statistics are called National Statistics in the…

• Indicator development plan

  1. Reviewing indicators During 2022, the Biodiversity Indicators…

• 1. Extent and condition of protected areas

  Data last updated: Extent of protected areas (1a) – November 2023…

• 2a Extent and condition of priority habitats

  Note Natural England and Defra have identified a data licensing issue with…

• 4a Status of priority species: relative abundance

  Data last updated: November 2023 Latest data available: 2021 Introduction…

• 5 – Farmland species

  Data last updated: November 2023 Latest data available: Breeding birds on…

• 6 – Woodland Species

  Data last updated: November 2023 Latest data available: Breeding birds in…

Annual trends in wild bird populations in England, 1970 to 2022.

• Document type: Statistical data set
• Part of a collection: Biodiversity and wildlife statistics
• Organisation: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 28 November 2023

This release and publication report on UK progress towards meeting the biodiversity goals and targets ‘the Aichi targets’ agreed in 2010.

• Document type: National Statistics
• Part of a collection: Biodiversity and wildlife statistics
• Organisation: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 14 November 2023

Annual trends in wild bird populations in the UK.

• Document type: National Statistics
• Part of a collection: Biodiversity and wildlife statistics
• Organisation: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 7 November 2023

Annual trends in wild bird populations in England.

• Document type: National Statistics
• Part of a collection: Biodiversity and wildlife statistics
• Organisation: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 7 November 2023

FAnGR register of at-risk breeds of cattle, horses and ponies, sheep, goats, pigs and poultry; criteria and definitions.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: FAnGR resources for farmers and livestock breeders
• Organisation: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 31 July 2023

This release includes provisional indices of Cormorant population in England, showing change in population between 1987/88 and 2022/23

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Organisation: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
• Updated: 28 July 2023

This evidence summary supports the 25 Year Environment Plan and its outcome indicator framework.

• Document type: Research
• Organisation: Environment Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 22 May 2023

Annual statistics on farm animal genetic resources in the United Kingdom.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: FAnGR resources for farmers and livestock breeders
• Organisation: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 11 May 2023

How to do river habitat surveys to assess rivers and streams.

• Document type: Research
• Organisation: Environment Agency
• Updated: 5 August 2022

Discusses the importance of nature in providing ecosystem services and presents recent and historical trends in biodiversity.

• Document type: Research
• Organisation: Environment Agency
• Updated: 12 July 2022

Population trends for UK bat species.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Joint Nature Conservation Committee statistical releases
• Organisation: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
• Updated: 19 May 2022

Impacts of farming on the environment and mechanisms for improvement, plus future challenges and approaches.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: River basin planning: challenges for the water environment
• Organisation: Environment Agency
• Updated: 7 April 2022

This report explains the benefits of the Natural Flood Management Programme and celebrates its successes.

• Document type: Research
• Organisation: Environment Agency
• Updated: 1 November 2021

The impacts of invasive non-native species on the water environment, current control measures and future challenges and approaches.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: River basin planning: challenges for the water environment
• Organisation: Environment Agency
• Updated: 22 October 2021

An overview of the biodiversity challenge. Current actions, plus potential future actions and opportunities.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: River basin planning: challenges for the water environment
• Organisation: Environment Agency
• Updated: 22 October 2021

Presents national-scale trends in the macroinvertebrate communities of English rivers over 29 years.

• Document type: Research
• Organisation: Environment Agency
• Updated: 22 October 2021

Explores opportunities for applying advances in DNA and RNA technologies to improve understanding of ecosystem function and resilience.

• Document type: Research
• Organisation: Environment Agency
• Updated: 11 August 2021

This project looked at what impact invasive non-native species have on the ecology of sites at which they are recorded.

• Document type: Research
• Organisation: Environment Agency
• Updated: 10 May 2021