Tender Results of Natural England

Invertebrate assemblage survey of three SSSIs in the West Midlands (Contract 10)-Invertebrate assemblage survey of Copmill Hill SSSI, Highgate Common SSSI and Stockton Railway Cutting and Quarry SSSI

DLL - Sentinel Monitoring: Lot 2 (South): Year 1 (2023)-District Level Licencing - Great Crested Newts - Sentinel Monitoring Framework Call Off for the first year fieldwork in the southern areas

DLL for GCN - Sentinel Monitoring of Ponds - Framework Agreement-This tender is focussed on the Sentinel Tier of the DLL monitoring programme. The aim of this tender is to find suppliers to deliver the fieldwork for 'Sentinel' tier of District Level Licensing scheme monitoring. This will involve eDNA sampling and HSI survey of 125 ponds within each of 4 District Level Licensing scheme areas annually.

Private Investor Research - Urban Greening Accreditation-Natural England requires the services of a contractor to undertake research to grow our understanding of private sector interests in driving forward the greening of urban areas for all the benefits to health and wellbeing, nature and climate. We are exploring a potential new national urban greening accreditation, to create Nature Towns and Nature Cities across England. In summary this work will involve; 1.Identifying the drivers for private sector investors in urban greening (either new o...

Countryside Survey data testing for a State of Natural Capital Report-This contract will inform the production of a future State of Natural Capital Report. The contract will explore the Countryside Survey (2007) to consider which data can be used in an initial State of Natural Capital Report, identify the metric to be used and test and develop a method for data analysis.

Evidence review on the sensitivity of seagrass to nutrients-The aim of this evidence review is to collate the evidence on the response of seagrass to changing nutrient concentrations in estuarine ecosystems and further our understanding on how these relationships are affected by other environmental and ecological factors. Seagrass habitats in the UK are understood to be some of the most sensitive habitats to nutrient enrichment. These habitats provide many ecosystem services and are either designated feature, sub-feature or supporting habitat in most est...

Cattle Handling Design - Parsonage/Cherry Lodge Farm-Cattle Handling Design - Parsonage/Cherry Lodge Farm

RDE 377 - Audit of Natural England-managed National Nature Reserve (NNR) Records-The current project will update this audit to ensure we have a list of all records related to the above 3 categories since 2013. It will also detail file locations. Most items since 2013 are expected to be digital and an important part of the project is to ensure any appropriate digital information is stored centrally on our records systems (Records Hub/SharePoint). For paper/hardcopy documents a note of the location will be sufficient at this time (i.e. the documents do not need ...

RDE183 Impacts of mob grazing on soil health-Mob grazing is an increasingly popular concept amongst famers. There are many instances in which farmers report the benefits of mob grazing with regards to animal health through improved quality forage. There are also claims that mob grazing is beneficial to soil health, and thereby the wider environment. However, there are no rigourous scientific studies reporting the impacts of mob grazing on soil properties as applied on UK soils. This contract will develop a system to characte...

RDE164 MOCCA: Monitoring of Coastal Cetacean Acoustics (license and deployment)-Natural England Contract through The RDE framework to obtain a comprehensive cetacean bioacoustics data set for the inshore waters of Northeast England utilising FPOD devices.