Evaluating Rivers & Wetlands – Watercress & Winterbournes

Evaluating Rivers and Wetlands – Watercress & Winterbournes – Chalk streams and rivers traditionally rich in wildlife and with strong cultural association to fishing, water meadows and water mills are now under threat from range of factors including pollution, water extraction and habitat loss….

Evaluating Public Dialogue

In 2019 the National Environmental Research Council (NERC) commissioned a Public Dialogue on their Digital Environment research programme. R4C was asked to evaluate the dialogue process …

Evaluating Partnership working

R4C was commissioned in 2020 to undertake an evaluation of the Changing Chalk partnership focused on measuring the value of partnership in the development phase of its bid to the NLHF….

Evaluating Natures Recovery – Snakes in the Heather

The Smooth Snake is the UK’s rarest reptile but very little is known about its distribution and ecology. This project, led by Amphibian & Reptile Conservation, and which R4C has been engaged to evaluate, is looking, through Citizen Science……

Evaluating Nature Recovery – Martens on the Move

Using a mixture of habitat management, citizen science and public engagement this project is looking to create the right ecological and social conditions to encourage the spread of the Pine Marten into new areas in the Scottish and Welsh borders….

Evaluating Conservation Grazing for Surrey Wildlife Trust

R4C is the lifetime evaluator for this conservation grazing project with Surrey Wildlife Trust, funded by the Green Recovery Challenge Fund. Conservation grazing delivers a wide range of sustainable habitat benefits. The project will secure the Belted Galloway cattle as ‘bio-engineers’ on Surrey’s unique heathland habitats, providing valuable conservation grazing services to protected habitat sites. …

Evaluating community led resilience development.

The low-lying landscape of the Manhood Peninsula, south of Chichester in West Sussex, is prone to surface water flooding due in part to poor ditch and pond management. The project, led by a local Wildlife & Heritage Group ….

Evaluating Citizen Science

The FSC BioLinks project, was exciting citizen science project focusing on the addressing the gaps in knowledge about invertebrate distribution through a lack of biological recorders with the necessary identification skills.