Global nature intelligence company, NatureMetrics, has announced the launch of Habitat Insights, a powerful new geospatial tool to help businesses and organisations gain a rapid assessment of terrestrial habitats across their portfolio, to support land management decisions and biodiversity reporting needs.
As nature and climate-related risks become increasingly critical in business and investment decision-making, the need for innovative tools to manage these threats continues to rise.
NatureMetrics says that Habitat Insights is an easy-to-use tool providing vital early-stage assessments of large terrestrial areas without the need for on-the-ground monitoring – equipping organisations with critical habitat data to inform effective management actions.
Habitat Insights offers users the ability to:
- Run rapid assessments of complex, hard-to-reach terrestrial sites, showing change over time
- Understand the impact of industrial activity and track performance of mitigation actions
- Identify new areas for use or management needs e.g. carbon projects or BNG sites
- Assess potential biodiversity hotspots for further investigation with eDNA
- Standardise habitat assessments across a portfolio of sites
- View projects and metrics through an interactive navigation in the NatureMetrics Intelligence Platform
This new tool represents an important expansion of NatureMetrics’ solution, supporting customers who need a quick and easy assessment of habitats, before they commit to on-the-ground monitoring.
With the launch of Habitat Insights, NatureMetrics now offers both geospatial habitat insights alongside its existing eDNA species insights through the NatureMetrics Intelligence Platform – providing one single biodiversity monitoring solution for nature risk and impact reporting needs.
Dimple Patel, CEO of NatureMetrics, said, “The realities of nature-related risks and dependencies are becoming ever more apparent across business operations. We’re excited to be expanding our capabilities to provide tools for customers right across their biodiversity journey. Whether you’re looking for a quick assessment of new project sites or interested in mapping habitats alongside species data, we can now offer a fully comprehensive solution, underpinned by the ecological integrity for which NatureMetrics is renowned.
“By combining remote sensing with our industry-leading eDNA technology, we’re giving businesses and conservationists the tools they need to make smarter, faster decisions about nature. We’re enabling organisations to move beyond fragmented data to a truly connected nature intelligence approach.”
Powered by advanced geospatial analytics, Habitat Insights enables businesses, conservationists, and land managers to rapidly assess and track habitat conditions with precision and ease.
Traditional habitat monitoring at large scales can often be complex, costly, and time-consuming. Habitat Insights offers a powerful, yet simple solution, delivering key habitat metrics to support better decision-making, regulatory reporting, and biodiversity stewardship.
Pippa Howard, Chief Nature Strategist at NatureMetrics, said, “Landmark progress recently agreed at the resumed COP16 talks demonstrates that, despite ongoing geopolitical challenges, momentum to reverse biodiversity loss continues at pace and organisations cannot afford to be left behind. Our new Habitat Insights product is an essential tool to support comprehensive biodiversity data and monitoring used to drive management action and financial flows to deliver nature positive.”
Habitat Insights includes three easy-to-use, standardised metrics to track habitat health:
- Land cover – Monitor landscape changes by analysing different land cover types at sites over time.
- Habitat connectivity – assess the health and resilience of sites by how well they are connected.
- Vegetation health – Gain insights into the health and density of vegetation through advanced vegetation analysis.
As global nature reporting regulations and frameworks continue to call for both habitat and species data, this new tool – coupled with NatureMetrics’ existing eDNA solution – provides a comprehensive package to support all major reporting requirements, including TNFD, CSRD and GRI.