Environmental Reporting

Habitats Regulations Reporting is six yearly reporting on our most important habitats and species. It replaces reporting under Article 17 and Article 12 of the Council Directive 92/43/EEC on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora (Habitats Directive) and EU Directive on the conservation of wild birds (2009/147/EC) (Birds Directive) respectively. When the UK left the EU, the need to undertake broadly equivalent reporting was transferred into the Conservation (Natural Habitats etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 (known as the Habitat Regulations) through the EU

In 2022, DAERA awarded a 6-year contract to deliver the 4th NI Countryside Survey to the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH).