Publication - Progress report

Scottish Biodiversity Strategy: report to Parliament 2017 to 2019

Published: 26 June 2020
Directorate: Environment and Forestry Directorate
Topic: Environment and climate change
ISBN: 9781839608537

The fifth report detailing progress on the implementation of the Scottish Biodiversity Strategy, covering the period 2017 to 2019, as required under the Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004.

Supporting documents

Annex 2 - Natural Heritage, Biodiversity, People Engagement and Ecosystem Health Indicators

Indicator Performance Rating Key

Performance Improving

Performance Maintaining

Performance Worsening

Performance to be confirmed

Indicator in development

Table 9. Summary of Indicators. Biodiversity state indicators
No.	Indicator	Start	Updated	Trend 2017	Trend 2019
S1	Status of biodiversity action plan (BAP priority species	2008	2008	Archived	Archived
S2	Status of biodiversity action plan (BAP) priority habitats	2008	2008	Archived	Archived
S3	Abundance of terrestrial breeding birds	1994 2017	2018 2018
S4	Wintering waterbirds	1975	2018
S5	Breeding seabirds	1986	2020		Stabilisation for some species in recent years
S6	Vascular Plant diversity	1998	2007	Archived	Archived
State	National Plant Monitoring Scheme	2015	2019
S7	Woodland diversity	1995	1999	Archived	Archived
	Native woodland condition	2006 to 2013
S8	Terrestrial insect abundance - Butterflies	1979	2019
S9	Trend of moths in Scotland - abundance	1965	2019
S9	Trend of moths in Scotland - occupancy	1965	2019		Divergent
S10	Notified species in favourable condition	1999	2020
S11	Notified habitats in favourable condition	1999	2020
	Site condition monitoring	2010	2020
	Otter	1977	2004	Archived	Archived
S12	Otter trend	1977	2015	Archived	Archieved
S13	Freshwater macro-invertebrate diversity River Quality	1981 1992	2008 2018	Archived	Archived
S14	Marine plankton	1958	2010	Archived	Archived
S15	Estuarine fish	1977	2005	Archived	Archived
S17	Non Native species	1950s	2001	Archieved	Archieved

Engagement Indicators
No.	Indicator	Start	Updated	Trend 2010-2017	Trend 2010-2019
E1	Attitudes to biodiversity	2006	2019
E2	Greenspace	2007	2015	Archieved	Archieved
	OS - spatial greenspace	2017
E3	Increase people's visits to the outdoors	2012	2018
E4	Involvement in biodiversity conservation	2010	2015
E5	Membership of biodiversity NGOs	2013	2015

Other Natural Heritage indicators
No.	Indicator	Start	Updated	Trend 2010-2017	Trend 2010-2019
N2	Built Development	2008	2012		Archived
N3	Visual influence of built development	2008	2013		Archived
N7	Land & sea of natural heritage importance	2008	2013	Archived	Archived

National Performance Framework Indicators
Indicator	Start	Updated
Increase Natural Capital	2000	2017
Increase people's visits to the Outdoors	2006	2018
Improve access to local greenspace	2013	2016
Terrestrial breeding birds⁶⁷	1994 2017	2018 2018
Proportion of nature sites in favourable condition		2020

Ecosystems Health Indicators
Indicator	Start	Updated
EUNIS Land cover Scotland	2015
Improve the condition of terrestrial & freshwater protected nature sites	2005	2018
Native woodland condition	2006- 2013
High Nature Value Farming	2009
Terrestrial Breeding Bird	1994 2017	2018 2018

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Annex 2 - Natural Heritage, Biodiversity, People Engagement and Ecosystem Health Indicators

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