Species moved intentionally or unintentionally by humans from one part of the world to a new region where the species didn’t previously occur are termed non-native species. A proportion of non-native ...

Applications to the NC-UK 2026 Internship programme have now closed! Interviews took place in April and May 2026.

Stay Connected. Stay Informed. Shape the Future. The NC-UK programme is bringing people together to tackle environmental challenges. Over the next five years, we’ll be hosting a calendar of events ...

The National Capability for UK Challenges (NC-UK) programme is transforming how the UK understands and manages its land, air, and freshwater environments—delivering the data, tools, and partnerships ...

A 'treescape' is a landscape containing woody features, which have ecological functions similar to woodlands. They include natural woodland, managed forests, trees outside of woodland and woody linear ...

The Monks Wood 'Wilderness' sites are a series of former fields of arable farmland and grassland, which are next to the ancient woodland of Monks Wood National Nature Reserve in Cambridgeshire, ...

Invasive non-native species (INNS, sometimes known as invasive alien species) are organisms introduced by human beings into areas outside their native range, where they then threaten biodiversity, ...

UKCEH Countryside Survey provides a uniquely powerful lens on the way common plants are distributed across the countryside and how they have changed in abundance over time. Common plants are important ...

This section contains information on UKCEH Countryside Survey publications, including academic references and electronic copies of documents (where available).

The City Explorer Toolkit (CET) is an interactive web-based tool, which helps planners to understand where best to create urban green spaces such as parks and blue spaces such as ponds, to ensure that ...

The AMBER project, funded by the Abrdn Charitable Foundation, will develop and trial cutting edge technology for monitoring biodiversity. The project will combine expertise from UKCEH and the Alan ...

The UB Forest Research and Education Platform is a collective effort by a large number of people in Indonesia and the UK. UK Principal Investigator: Professor Niall McNamara, UKCEH Indonesian Project ...