Tender Results of Natural England

Geological Monitoring - Cowbit Wash SSSI & Horbling Fen SSSI-Natural England requires a geological investigation of the buried sediments at Cowbit Wash SSSI & Horbling Fen SSSI to assess their condition. There are concerns that fluctuating water levels at both sites may have affected the sediments and the quality of the fossil material they contain.

Stiperstones borehole-Drilling of borehole for water supply for cattle/sheep at the Stiperstones NNR, Shropshire.

Interdisciplinary workshop facilitation-Design and run facilitated workshops based around robust visioning methods to support Natural England to do two things. The first is to work with NE staff to help create an integrated vision for their priority place (identifying the multiple benefits it could deliver and how). The second is to develop best practice guidance for use by other priority place projects and staff in NE so that they can replicate the process undertaken to create their own project visions. "To apply for this opp...

Nutrient Neutrality -Developing detailed design guidance for wetland mitigation solutions to nutrient pollution-The objective of this project is to develop detailed design guidance, based on the best-practice approaches taken by professionals in the feasibility, design and maintenance of treatment wetlands for nutrient mitigation. This will ensure that a set standard for high-quality nature-based solutions is delivered through the Nutrient Mitigation Scheme and other nutrient neutrality mechanisms. The guidance will be used by design and build contractors, as well as local authorities and consenting bo...

England Green Infrastructure Mapping Database: Urban Habitat and Naturalness Mapping Roll Out Phase 2-.

Geodiversity and Nature Recovery in the Black Country UNESCO Global Geopark-Nature Recovery is at the centre of the Government's Environmental Improvement Plan but the contribution of geodiversity to nature recovery is not yet fully valued or recognised and the opportunities that geodiversity offers have not been adequately explored. Alongside this, the opportunities to conserve and recover geodiversity as part of wider nature recovery activities have not been been fully realised. This project builds on the success of the Purple Horizons project, one of the firs...

Water connectivity at Crookbank north to Brickyard south-The installation of a water pipeline from water main to the field to supply 2 new troughs located around post code LN12 1NW Theddlethorpe, Lincolnshire. The work will start from main https://w3w.co/departure.loser.birdcage the pipeline will run until

A Scoping Project on the Framework of Support Required by Schools to Develop their Outdoor Learning Practices-The Children and Nature Programme (2019-2022) was established in response to the Governments 25 Year Environment plan, in recognition of the role that nature can play for children and young people's health, however the Programme, along with other research, highlighted the variability in access to high quality support, and identified several challenges as being significant limiting factors in the ambition to make time in nature part of every child's school day. The purpose of this wo...

RDE058 - Pilot study conducting IUCN red list assessment or marine fish species-There are a number of ways that Natural England (NE) could both benefit from and utilize this work for; IUCN red list assessments are one of the 25 Year Environment Plan (25YEP) indicators under D5 (Conservation status of our native species), potentially feed into sustainable fisheries works (specifically feed into the fisheries ecosystem assessments), act as proxy assessments for non-pressured stocks, help inform Good Environmental Status (GES) assessments, determine species in need of fisherie...

Review of biases in metabarcoding primers for DNA analysis-This project involves a literature review into amplification bias in DNA metabarcoding and includes computational analysis to identify taxonomic groups of invertebrates that are not being represented in current metabarcoding assays.