TerraViso for Conservation & Nature Recovery
Understand where recovery could make the greatest difference
Nature recovery rarely happens one habitat at a time.
Woodlands, grasslands, wetlands, hedgerows, rivers and scrub form part of wider ecological systems. Restoring one place can influence another, while relatively small interventions can sometimes reconnect habitats across a much larger landscape.
TerraViso brings habitat evidence and landscape intelligence together to help conservation organisations understand those relationships and investigate where action could potentially make the greatest difference.
Start by understanding the landscape
Start by understanding the landscape
Start by understanding the landscape
- Before deciding where recovery should happen, we need to understand what is already there.
- TerraViso can bring high-resolution imagery, habitat information, terrain, vegetation and other environmental evidence together within a consistent spatial framework.
- This creates a foundation for understanding the existing landscape — its habitats, structure and ecological context — before considering how it might change.
See what connects — and what doesn't
Start by understanding the landscape
Start by understanding the landscape
- A landscape may contain valuable habitat while still being highly fragmented.
- Woodland patches may be separated. Hedgerows may almost connect important areas but contain critical gaps. Wetlands may sit within wider riparian networks. Small areas of scrub or grassland may provide stepping stones between larger habitats.
- TerraViso Ecological Intelligence can help explore these relationships across the landscape.
- The objective is not simply to identify habitat.
- It is to understand how the habitat fits together.
Find where intervention could matter
Find where intervention could matter
Find where intervention could matter
- Not every hectare has the same potential influence on the wider landscape.
- Creating habitat in one location may increase area without significantly changing ecological connectivity. Somewhere else, a relatively small intervention could strengthen a corridor, extend an existing habitat network or reconnect previously isolated areas.
- TerraViso can help investigate these differences.
The question becomes....
Where could we create habitat?
but also....
Where could recovery create the greatest wider benefit?
Explore different routes to recovery
Find where intervention could matter
Find where intervention could matter
- There is rarely one obvious answer.
- A landscape might be strengthened by extending woodland, restoring grassland, reconnecting hedgerows, improving riparian habitat or allowing natural processes to develop in selected areas.
- Different combinations of intervention can create very different ecological patterns.
- TerraViso is being developed to help explore those alternatives spatially — providing evidence for conversations about what could happen, where and why.
Different species. Different landscapes.
Different species. Different landscapes.
Different species. Different landscapes.
- There is no single ecological network.
- A landscape that works well for woodland species may look very different when considered from the perspective of pollinators, bats, amphibians or other ecological communities.
- TerraViso can support different ecological perspectives on the same landscape, helping investigate where networks overlap, where needs differ and where interventions may create benefits across more than one ecological community.
Build on what is already working
Different species. Different landscapes.
Different species. Different landscapes.
- Nature recovery does not always mean creating something new.
- Existing habitat networks, mature landscape features and areas already supporting ecological connectivity can be just as important.
- Understanding those strengths can help avoid focusing solely on degraded or fragmented areas.
- TerraViso can help identify where the landscape already appears well connected and where protecting or strengthening those relationships may be as important as creating new habitat.
From opportunity to a recovery plan
From opportunity to a recovery plan
From opportunity to a recovery plan
- Once the existing landscape and potential interventions can be considered together, TerraViso can help support a more structured approach to nature recovery planning.
- Potential actions can be examined in relation to existing habitats, ecological networks and wider landscape context.
- That provides evidence for discussing priorities, comparing alternatives and developing recovery plans that respond to the landscape rather than simply placing interventions where land happens to be available.
Did recovery actually happen?
From opportunity to a recovery plan
From opportunity to a recovery plan
- A recovery plan is only the beginning.
- Habitats develop over time. Some interventions succeed quickly. Others respond differently from what was expected.
- A controlled TerraViso baseline creates the opportunity to return to the landscape with new imagery, surveys and environmental evidence and investigate what happened next.
Did the habitat establish?
Did connectivity improve?
Has the surrounding landscape changed?
Did the intervention produce the effect we expected?
- Monitoring turns nature recovery from a one-off plan into a process of learning.
Evidence for conservation decisions
- TerraViso does not decide what nature recovery should look like.
- Conservation priorities depend on ecological expertise, field knowledge, land management, communities, policy, resources and many other considerations that cannot be reduced to a spatial model.
- What TerraViso can do is make landscape relationships easier to investigate.
- It can help reveal patterns, compare possibilities and provide spatial evidence for decisions that remain firmly in professional hands.
See the possibilities in the landscape
- Nature recovery begins with understanding what is already there — but it becomes much more powerful when we can also explore what the landscape could become.
- TerraViso is being developed to help bridge those two questions:
How does this landscape work today?
How could it work better tomorrow?