United Kingdom Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies

 

The UK’s 14 Overseas Territories (OTs) and 3 Crown Dependencies (CDs) are spread across the globe.

 

Together - and individually - the 17 make a significant contribution to global biodiversity and geological diversity.  Many of the species found in the UKOTs and CDs are endemic and so are found nowhere else in the world.

 

There are a number of threats to biodiversity in the OTs and CDs. The key pressures result from development, climate change and non-native species.

 

JNCC's role.

JNCC have an Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies Programme which aims to give advice and support to UK, OT and CD governments on nature conservation.

 

Visit the individual OT and CD pages to find out more about the biodiversity in each OT and CD, and to see what JNCC is doing to support nature conservation there.