Catalogue: PES & Nature-Based Solutions clear
14 practices not yet assessed for evidence strength.
Most practices in: United Kingdom (40)
The UK's quality-assurance standard for peatland restoration: it issues verified carbon units for rewetting degraded peat, delivering bundled carbon, water and biodiversity …
Scottish Government grant programme funding voluntary peatland restoration by landowners; 90,000 ha on path to recovery and 14,860 ha restored in 2024–25 …
The UK's government-backed standard for woodland-creation carbon: validated projects are predicted to sequester ~13 MtCO2 over their lifetime, with a public registry …
United Utilities' £22.2M Sustainable Catchment Management Programme (2005-2015) paid tenant farmers across 57,000 hectares of Peak District and Forest of Bowland moorland …
A decade-plus monitored NFM experiment across 24 farms: 300,000+ native trees, ~40 leaky ponds and ~136 flow restrictors; reported ~30% lower upper-catchment …
Three million tonnes of London Crossrail tunnel spoil raised farmland before the sea wall was breached in 2015. RSPB reports 650+ ha …
Since 2000 the Knepp Estate has replaced intensive farming on 1,400 ha with free-roaming grazers and natural regeneration; surveys report breeding birds …
Ten years of University of Exeter research on wild beavers on the River Otter: storm peak flows ~30% lower on average, 6 …
Sheffield turned a redundant dual carriageway into the UK's largest retrofit SuDS scheme (2014-2022): swales cut peak flow up to 80% in …
Scotland's Nature Restoration Fund has put £65 million into nearly 800 projects since 2021, restoring over 15,400 hectares of habitat, planting 300,000+ …
Since 2010, South West Water has paid 2,000+ Devon and Cornwall farmers to cut diffuse pollution across 144,120 ha, investing over £20m …
Since February 2024, most development in England must deliver a measurable 10% biodiversity net gain in standardised biodiversity units — a statutory …
A 3,700 ha landscape-scale fen restoration linking Woodwalton Fen and Holme Fen; about 1,700 ha is in conservation management. Wildlife returns are …
City of Trees, Greater Manchester's tree charity, runs a 3-million-tree target and ran the UK's largest i-Tree Eco survey (11.3M trees, 15.7% …
Blanket-bog restoration at Dryhope in the Scottish Borders became the UK's first project verified under the Peatland Code, blending public Peatland ACTION …
Four-landowner partnership restoring ~600 km² of the Cairngorms on a 200-year vision; partner-reported progress since 2019 includes 8,219 ha of conifer removal, …
Completed in 2013–14, Medmerry replaced failing shingle defences with a 7 km set-back embankment and a deliberate breach, creating ~183 ha of …
England's Rural Payments Agency verifies Sustainable Farming Incentive and Countryside Stewardship payments using near-daily Planet satellite imagery and LiDAR height data, delivered …
Wales' 2012–2024 whole-farm agri-environment scheme paid farmers over £336m for water, biodiversity and peatland outcomes across roughly 1.3m hectares; independent ERAMMP evaluation …
WWF and Sky Ocean Rescue funded Swansea University, Project Seagrass and Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum to plant the UK's first major seagrass restoration …
Defra-funded catchment measures (woody debris dams, bunds, tree planting, wetlands) above Pickering, a town flooded four times in 1999–2007. Modelling estimates annual …
England's largest private Biodiversity Net Gain habitat-bank operator; by December 2024 it had 16 habitat banks entered on Natural England's statutory gain-sites …
Since 2011, NatureScot-led partnerships have run volunteer mink trapping across up to 3M ha of north Scotland (£3.34M invested 2017–23, plus £2.08M …
Water utilities buy winter cover crops via online reverse auction: 18 farms, 800+ ha, avg GBP 109/ha in 2020/21; ~37–40 t nitrate …
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