Strategic biodiversity planning to integrate nature and sustainability across estates, businesses, and local authorities. 

We have worked with a variety of businesses and local authorities to deliver estate wide biodiversity strategies. Creating bespoke solutions and working closely with clients to develop long-term, strategic projects that embed nature and sustainability into the heart of what they do.

Whether you are meeting your Statutory Biodiversity Duty, delivering ESG or biodiversity goals, or seeking meaningful action, we help to ensure that your approach is ambitious, but appropriate for your line of work.  

Our strategies draw on our expertise in planning, policy, ecosystem services, community engagement, and ecology. We also use advanced GIS mapping to host and visualise data, providing accessible and engaging tools for management, communication, and reporting. 

Expert habitat assessment and bespoke management plans to restore, enhance and create valuable habitats at any scale. With expertise in botany, habitat creation, priority habitats and fungi. 

We provide a wide range of habitat surveys and assessments tailored to your needs.

With qualifications and expertise in UK Habitat , NVC (National Vegetation Classification), botanical assessments and MoRPH methodologies, we are able to assess a variety of terrestrial and aquatic habitats.  

Whether assessing current ecological value or designing ambitious enhancement plans, our approach ensures that interventions and habitat designs are locally relevant, impactful, and deliver significant ecological value.

Our experience ranges from working on small scale interventions such as verges and green infrastructure, through to large estates.

Drawing on over 60 years’ experience of advising on habitat creation and enhancement, we work with our clients and use specialist knowledge of the wider landscape to design and deliver plans which not only provide exceptional value for the people, places and wildlife on site, but also contribute towards the wider, landscape-scale nature recovery network. 

For more complex sites, we also offer nature-led master planning for complex sites, integrating nature, ecosystem services and social value from the outset. 

Our services include: 

• Habitat Surveys and Condition Assessments using UKHabitat Methodology 

• Biodiversity Net Gain assessment 

• National Vegetation Classification 

• MoRPH assessment 

• Fungi Assessment and Identification 

• Local Wildlife Site Surveys 

• Written Ecological Appraisals 

• Habitat Management Plan 

• Habitat Creation Plan 

• Site Masterplan Design and Scoping 

• Invasive species assessment 

Expertise and licensed ecologists in a wide range of species surveys including invertebrates, pollinators, birds, bats and amphibians. 

We conduct a broad range of protected species surveys to help you in understanding the ecological value of your site, monitor change and inform decision making.

Whether you are assessing how a species is responding to a change in site management, designing interventions to benefit a particular species group, or simply collecting information on an area of importance, we offer expert-led assessments to meet your requirements. 

Our expertise and services include: 

• Birds (breeding bird assemblage, wintering assemblage, nesting bird checks, key species surveys including barn owl, nightjar and other notable species) 

• Invertebrates (terrestrial and aquatic, sweep netting, PSYM and pitfall traps) 

• Pollinators  

• Water vole and otter 

• Reptiles 

• White clawed crayfish 

• Amphibians (including Great Crested Newt, HSI assessments and eDNA) 

• Bats, with licensed ecologists in the team able to do bat box checks and roost assessments 

• Mammals including badger and camera trap assessments 

Design and delivery of woodland creation and management schemes, aligned with key funding opportunities. 

We are experienced in developing woodland creation and management plans, supporting clients through Forestry Commission and Woodland Trust schemes. We produce the necessary reports to meet regulatory requirements and access funding. 

Services include: 

• Woodland Management Plans 

• Woodland Creation Schemes including English Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO), MOREwoods and the Woodland Carbon Code.  

Nature-based flood resilience and wetland design or restoration using cutting-edge geospatial tools and ecological expertise.  

With climate change driving an increase in flood risk, we believe in using nature-based solutions to reduce vulnerability and restore wetland ecosystems. Using geospatial mapping, leading technology and expertise, we are able to provide solutions to reduce flood risk and restore the health and complexity of our wetlands. This includes: 

• Modelling flow, run off and topography to design strategically placed interventions such as leaky dams, pools or bunds to create rich wetland habitats and slow the flow of water.  

• Removal of weirs and re-meandering of rivers and steams to naturalise the waterbody 

• Riparian planting or woodland creation 

• Habitat design and creation

Evaluating the value of land through natural capital assessments, exploration of ecosystem service provision and nature based solutions. 

Using a combination of desk-based assessments and on-site surveys, we can undertake natural capital assessments of sites and identify the key ecosystem services the land does or could provide.  

Alongside management recommendations, our natural capital assessments identify key income streams, opportunities or constraints, that could be used to finance interventions and management, this includes a broad range of options from agri-environmental schemes to grants and green finance initiatives, such as nutrient neutrality, carbon capture or Biodiversity Net Gain. 

Advanced spatial analysis and remote sensing to support evidence-based environmental projects and decision-making. 

Our data-led approach is supported by advanced geospatial analysis and remote sensing techniques. We use cutting-edge tools to gather, manage and present environmental data clearly and effectively. 

Capabilities include: 

• Geospatial mapping and data management including the creation of bespoke and interactive web maps, and dashboards 

• QGIS and Arc / ESRI expertise 

• Remote sensing of data through drone footage and audio analysis 

• Flood risk modelling 

Scientific soil analysis to inform ecosystem restoration, improve health, and enhance carbon and water storage. 

The importance of the health of soil within an ecosystem is key to its health, with healthy soil delivering a range of ecosystem services through supporting in the storage of carbon, water and nutrients and reducing run off.  

We can sample your soil and assess it for soil organic matter and soil organic carbon content, to inform soil management recommendations aimed at improving soil health and sequestering carbon. We can also measure general parameters including bulk density, water content, and pH, and nutrients including nitrite, nitrate and phosphate and provide bespoke advice for soil health.