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Many restoration and rewilding projects are developed and delivered by passionate individuals, groups and organisations. Ensuring these projects and initiatives are able to inform and facilitate research and monitoring is critical to assess how these activities are aiding biodiversity and habitat recovery, as well as a broader understanding of the motivations and underlying principles for these activities and how they can contribute to national targets.

UKCEH aims to co-produce, with the nature recovery practice community, a free to use data and knowledge hub.  The platform will meet the needs and requirements of different stakeholders through activities such as digitising and mapping restoration and rewilding activities and providing data on what is being monitored; species, habitats of interest, extent, wellbeing etc. 

The Restoration Hub will be co-designed, and the exact plan remains open. But we hope to address the following questions.

1)    How much land and fresh water is under restoration and/or rewilding in the UK?
2)    What restoration and rewilding actions are taking place?
3)    What types of habitat are being restored and where?
4)    Who is doing the restoration and rewilding?
5)    How are people measuring outcome & progress?
6)    How are initiatives defining success?
7)    Who is funding projects?
8)    What is the economic model driving the restoration and rewilding forward: eg, tourism, carbon credits, water quality, agri-environment; private reasons?
9)    How long is monitoring of initiatives lasting?
10)  What wider research questions could be answered if such data existed?

We are currently contacting stakeholders who we believe are already carrying out or have an interest in such activities and initiatives. The aim is to co-design the Restoration Hub and the questions addressed to meet your needs. If you would like to take part in our survey, please contact [email protected] for further information and a survey form.