New Launch: Meet the new Global Nature Risk layer | Find out more
New Launch: Meet the new Global Nature Risk layer | Find out more
Conservation and restoration organisations are under pressure to show measurable outcomes on tight budgets, and funders now want proof that money delivers real ecological gain, evidenced and audited. Traditional surveys are slow, costly and cover a fraction of species, so evidence of real uplift is hard to produce. DNA-based monitoring gives funders, natural-capital investors and land managers a defensible, comparable read on ecosystem condition and how it changes over time.
Figures from NatureMetrics' work with Forestry England.
The applications where nature evidence changes the outcome in conservation & forestry.
Establish a pre-intervention baseline and re-sample over time to quantify real ecological uplift across restoration and rewilding sites.
Provide auditable species and soil-community data to underpin net-gain claims and strengthen biodiversity-credit verification.
Track the shift to beneficial mycorrhizal soil communities across reforestation, to prove biodiversity co-benefits alongside carbon.
Survey hard-to-measure groups such as fungi and soil invertebrates at estate scale, to target nature-recovery interventions.
Turn DNA results into dashboards that show how funding translates into tangible outcomes, sustaining donor confidence.
The frameworks and requirements teams in conservation & forestry are held to.
The parts of the platform that map to the obligations above.
DNA from water, soil and sediment to detect hundreds of species from a single sampling campaign.
Distils DNA and habitat data into a 0 to 100 condition score, to baseline sites and track change over time.
Species-level detection of protected, rare and invasive taxa to guide restoration design.
Acoustic monitoring to complement eDNA for birds, bats and other vocal fauna across restoration sites.
Dashboards and transparent reporting that show funders how spend translates into biodiversity outcomes.
An evidence base for nature reporting and biodiversity-uplift claims to investors and credit buyers.
A relatively small allocation to eDNA monitoring, often around five to ten per cent of a project budget, safeguards the rest by steering restoration in the right direction and catching problems early. It turns biodiversity into something funders can see and audit: a baseline, a trend line, and a defensible claim of uplift. That evidence de-risks the investment, strengthens carbon and biodiversity-credit verification, and sustains funder confidence so projects can scale.
54 vertebrate species and 504 freshwater taxa. An eDNA baseline and repeat surveys measured uplift on a two-kilometre river restoration.
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