UK Biodiversity Indicator B1a, Area of land in agri-environment schemes

• Published by: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
• Last updated: 17 May 2018
• Topic: Environment
• Licence: Open Government Licence ; View licence information

Summary

This spreadsheet is the underlying data for the biodiversity indicator B1a, Area of land in agri-environment schemes.

Agriculture is a major land use in the UK, and rapid changes to agricultural practice in the past have been linked to declines in wildlife, such as farmland birds. Since 1987 a number of voluntary agri-environment schemes have been introduced that provide payments to farmers to protect and enhance biodiversity, landscapes and historic features, and to promote public access.

There are two main types of agri-environment scheme in the UK: - Entry-level type, whole-farm schemes that have a simple set of prescriptions providing basic environmental protection and enhancement, where the whole farm area contributes to the indicator; and - Higher-level or targeted schemes that protect or restore land, focusing on parts of the farm or land-holding that are of high environmental/biodiversity value or potential.

This is one of a suite of 24 UK biodiversity indicators published by JNCC on behalf of Defra; the latest publication date was 19 January 2016 - for indicator B1a the latest data are for 2014.

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Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
page-4242	N/A	17 May 2018	Not available

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2018-05-17
• Access contraints: No limitations
• Harvest GUID: d265a848-dda7-4149-ab7d-432cb2108818
• Extent: Latitude: 61.0° to 49.77°
• Extent: Longitude: -8.65° to 2.0°
• Dataset reference date: 2016-01-19 (publication)
• Responsible party: Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC (distributor)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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Released under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Attribution statement "Contains public sector information from the Department for Agriculture and Rural Development Northern Ireland, Defra, Natural England, Scottish Government, and Welsh Government, licenced under the Open Government Licence v3.0"