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UK tree cover outside woodlands - report on the area of land under tree cover in small woods, groups of trees and lone trees outside National Forest Inventory (NFI) woodland. Also includes the numbers and mean areas of these tree cover features, plus estimates of lengths and areas of hedgerows.

Technologies to gather natural environment data - presentations given at an SNH event on the theme of using technology to gather data about the natural environment

Met Office WOW (Weather Observations Website) - share your weather observations, weather impacts and weather-related photos

Natural Resources Monitoring Framework for Wales The GMEP project was tasked with identifying options and developing recommendations for an integrated natural resources monitoring framework for Wales

What's New

UKEOF-funded study reveals the global growth of ecological and environmental citizen science is fuelled by new technology
UPDATE: Our summary leaflet on Understanding Motivations for Citizen Science is now available in German. Many thanks to our translator, Melanie Armbruster
The UKEOF Secretariat is now hosted by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Summary of UKEOF Partners’ Natural Capital activities (June 2016)
The UK framework for aquatic monitoring: shared principles to drive choices about how to gather evidence on the freshwater environment, now published.
UPDATE: Understanding, opportunities, cost and benefits of Citizen Science report and tool available to download
Output from a UKEOF funded study to investigate methods to assess opportunities, cost and benefits of citizen science, awarded to WRc plc. See here for more details.
UPDATE: Understanding Motivations for Citizen Science report available to download
Output from a UKEOF funded study to investigate motivations for citizen science, awarded to the University of Reading. See here for more details.