Environmental Impact Assessment and protected-species law require evidence that a development will not harm priority habitats or species, such as the great crested newt survey under protocol WC1067. The burden sits with the developer and their ecological consultant, and a weak baseline is where consent stalls.

Great crested newt, a species commonly surveyed for permitting

What you get at each step

Screen

Locate the risk

Global Nature Risk finds where protected species and habitats put consent at risk.

Collect

Establish the baseline

Data collection gives a defensible species and habitat baseline with eDNA.

Interpret

Quantify the condition

The Ecosystem Condition Index puts habitat condition on a regulator-calibrated scale.

Manage

Evidence it over time

Species & Habitat Insights re-surveys against the planning condition as it runs.

GCN protocol WC1067

5 years full proficiency

Accounting for Nature

Audit-grade

Proof

10x

more species detected than conventional survey

Jacobs, with Transport Scotland

Soil eDNA set the habitat baseline and the compensatory-habitat targets for a major road scheme.

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