Who this is for
Rivers trusts, wildlife trusts, large nature-restoration consultancies, and conservation NGOs working at catchment and landscape scale. You need a single platform footprint that hosts every catchment partnership your organisation runs, evidence for funded programmes (Defra Landscape Recovery, WINEP, water-company-funded NFM, lottery and trust bids), and the ability to demonstrate 30-year stewardship of agreements your team will hand to successors.
What it does for you
- Mapping — Multi-site, multi-project, multi-catchment mapping across your area of operation.
- Flooding and wetlands — NFM and wetland restoration analysis at catchment scale; bid-grade hydrology outputs.
- Species and habitats — Habitat condition, priority species, BNG-stewardship baselines where applicable, catchment connectivity at organisation scale.
- Satellite data — Landscape change evidence over decades, the kind that holds up in 30-year monitoring obligations.
- Revenue modelling — Across the ecosystem-service streams, per catchment portfolio.
Plus the organisational dimension
Multi-catchment portfolio rollup. Multi-user role framework — senior catchment officers, junior GIS staff, partnership coordinators, statutory-partner external users. Long-running monitoring infrastructure tied to funder obligations. Bid-preparation surface that templates baseline, connectivity, and uplift outputs.
Example
A multi-catchment rivers trust hosting three catchment partnerships across the south-east uses Ecology App as the organisational evidence base. Senior catchment officers, GIS staff, and external statutory-partner users each have appropriate access. The trust's hydrology team identified the three highest-impact natural flood management sites across a 4 km tributary; the platform's outputs went straight into a WINEP-funded delivery bid.