Tuesday 11th February 2025: Global nature intelligence company, NatureMetrics, today announces the launch of Habitat Insights; a powerful new geospatial tool to help businesses and organizations gain a rapid assessment of terrestrial habitats across their portfolio, to support land management decisions and biodiversity reporting needs.
As nature and climate-related risks become increasingly critical in business and investment decision-making, the need for innovative tools to manage these threats continues to rise.
Habitat Insights is an easy-to-use tool providing vital early-stage assessments of large terrestrial areas without the need for on-the-ground monitoring – equipping organizations with critical habitat data to inform effective management actions.
Drawing on over 10 years of delivering ecological insights, backed by robust science-based methods, this new tool represents an important expansion of NatureMetrics’ solution, supporting those customers that need a quick and easy assessment of habitats, before they commit to on-the-ground monitoring.
With the launch of Habitat Insights, NatureMetrics now offers both geospatial habitat insights alongside its existing eDNA species insights through the NatureMetrics Intelligence Platform – providing one single biodiversity monitoring solution for nature risk and impact reporting needs.
Powered by advanced geospatial analytics, Habitat Insights enables businesses, conservationists, and land managers to rapidly assess and track habitat conditions with precision and ease.
Traditional habitat monitoring at large scales can often be complex, costly, and time-consuming. Habitat Insights offers a powerful, yet simple solution, delivering key habitat metrics to support better decision-making, regulatory reporting, and biodiversity stewardship.
As global nature reporting regulations and frameworks continue to call for both habitat and species data, this new tool - coupled with NatureMetrics’ existing eDNA solution - provides a comprehensive package to support all major reporting requirements, including TNFD, CSRD and GRI.
Dimple Patel, CEO of NatureMetrics, comments: “the realities of nature-related risks and dependencies are becoming ever more apparent across business operations. We’re excited to be expanding our capabilities to provide tools for customers right across their biodiversity journey. Whether you’re looking for a quick assessment of new project sites or interested in mapping habitats alongside species data, we can now offer a fully comprehensive solution, underpinned by the ecological integrity for which NatureMetrics is renowned.
“By combining remote sensing with our industry-leading eDNA technology, we’re giving businesses and conservationists the tools they need to make smarter, faster decisions about nature. We’re enabling organizations to move beyond fragmented data to a truly connected nature intelligence approach.”
Pippa Howard, Chief Nature Strategist at NatureMetrics, adds: “landmark progress recently agreed at the resumed COP16 talks demonstrates that, despite ongoing geopolitical challenges, momentum to reverse biodiversity loss continues at pace and organizations cannot afford to be left behind. Our new Habitat Insights product is an essential tool to support comprehensive biodiversity data and monitoring used to drive management action and financial flows to deliver nature positive."
This latest product release follows NatureMetrics recent $25m Series B funding announcement in January. With biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse ranked by the World Economic Forum as the second most significant global risk over the next decade, this funding milestone comes at a pivotal moment. It highlights the urgent need for transformative solutions as business and policy leaders seek to address the far-reaching impacts of biodiversity loss.
The investment is enabling NatureMetrics to build on its industry-leading position at the forefront of actionable nature intelligence, serving existing regulated industries with its transformative solution, while also supporting the rapidly expanding biodiversity reporting and compliance market, driven by new regulations coming into force.
NatureMetrics serves a global customer base, including large corporates such as Unilever and Anglo American, alongside major conservation groups, including WWF and Fauna & Flora. With over 600 clients operating in more than 110 countries, NatureMetrics supports clients across multiple industries including consumer goods, energy and extractives.
Habitat Insights is available immediately to new and existing NatureMetrics customers.
Book a Habitat Insights demo here: https://www.naturemetrics.com/habitat-insights
Pippa Howard, Chief Nature Strategist, reflects on Davos and the upcoming COP30, including why biodiversity loss is being deprioritised despite being ranked as the second most severe risk by decision-makers reported by the World Economic Forum's 2025 Global Risk report.
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