JNCC's Nature News Spring 2019 edition  

JNCC works with partners to run a number of long-term biodiversity monitoring schemes in the UK. In this edition of Nature News we look at the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme which has monitored changes in the abundance of butterflies throughout the UK since 1976.

Picture an island far, far away, remote and isolated. This was the reality for many of our South Atlantic Overseas Territories until a recent communications revolution in the South Atlantic region.

Meet our independent Committee member Marian Scott OBE, a Professor of Environmental Statistics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Glasgow. Find out what concerns her most about the natural world and the species that inspired her as a child. Marian also divulges her 'Desert Island Disc' and the place she'd most like to visit.

In this issue we focus on Dr Gwawr Jones, Senior Earth Observation Specialist. Gwawr joined JNCC in 2016 and currently works in the Ecosystem Analysis team.

There's been a change in fortune for the St Helena Bastard Gumwood - declared extinct at the end of the 19th Century, the tree which is endemic to this remote UK Overseas Territory, is now thriving and faces a positive future with the creation of a living gene bank.