The natural environment can provide a range of goods and services to support landowners and managers. Realising and enhancing natural capital is a core element of managing land sustainably.
Strategy and funding
- Policy and compliance reviews
- Countryside Stewardship Schemes
- Woodland Grant Schemes
- Rural development grants
- Business and sustainability planning
- Diversification options analysis
Habitat management
- Habitat creation and restoration
- Farm habitat surveys
- Ecological surveys (including protected species)
- Woodland and timber resource management
- Arboriculture surveys and management
- Landscape assessment
Natural resource management
- Natural flood risk management
- Soil and water quality surveys
- Ecosystem services and function appraisal
- Natural capital assessment
- Minerals surveying
- Timber crop review
- Carbon footprinting for land management
- Carbon sequestration and credit schemes
- Renewable energy
- Biodiversity and landscape plans
- GIS and mapping