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Natural Capital Solutions Ltd
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We are a leading consultancy specialising specifically in biodiversity and ecosystem services research and consulting

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NCS attended the #NatureFinance2025 Conference yesterday and were inspired by the range of projects and initiatives taking shape across the country. Nature is finally being recognised as critical infrastructure with the potential to attract significant levels of private investment.
November 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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NCS has worked with farmers to map how to increase biodiversity and #ecosystemservices on their land, and how they can practically afford to adopt these changes, see: tinyurl.com/bjtsb82d

#StateofNaturalCapital report: tinyurl.com/mu2ycjua
📸: Annie Spratt, Unsplash
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Politicians may spin their tales but businesses recognise our reliance on nature: Reflections from the #UKBusinessandBiodiversityForum2025

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#biodiversity #business #sustainability #PlanningandInfrastructureBill #economics #naturalcapital
October 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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💼We're visiting London today! NCS is attending the #UKBusinessandBiodiversityForum2025 hosted by #Arup today.
We're looking forward to attending more talks, gaining more insight (and doubtless more questions) this afternoon!
A crowd listens in as a female panel member speaks into a microphone in the right-hand side of the frame. Next to her and dominating the photo is a large screen displaying the panel and speakers names.
October 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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🐮Enclosed farmland covers around 43% of land in England, according to @naturalengland.bsky.social’s #StateofNaturalCapital report. Farmland provides locally-sourced animal production, cultivated crops, clean and plentiful water, and soil erosion control (to name a few)!

Report: tinyurl.com/mu2ycjua
A row of young cows look over a grey stone wall, in the background, more cows can be seen eating the green grass of their field, with farm buildings, trees, and more iconic stone walls and fields stretching away into the distance.
October 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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🎉NCS is celebrating 5 years with Dr. Valentina Zini on our team! Dr. Zini’s expertise in GIS and coding in R makes her a highly valued member of our staff, who consistently delivers high-quality models of natural capital, ecosystem services and biodiversity opportunities.
Graphic with multiple, colourful hexagons and a large quote box in the centre of the page that links to a black and white picture of a woman with a hat, with a tag below the photo that reads, "Dr. Valentina Zini, Senior Technical Specialist." The Natural Capital Solutions logo is at the top of the page, and below it, text reads "celebrates 5 years with Dr. Valentina Zini our Senior Technical Specialist." The text within the quote box in the centre of the page reads, "Q: After 5 years, what's the most rewarding part of your job?", underneath this is the quote, "Having the ability to work in a field that is growing and is trying to shift the way we, as well as investors and the government, look at nature. We show that nature is a resource worth protecting because our survival as humans depends on the ecosystem services nature provides us with.”
October 15, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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🦞Impacts from marine invasive species (like #AmericanLobster, Homarus americanus) are increasing, according to @naturalengland.bsky.social's #StateofNaturalCapital report.

Link to report: tinyurl.com/mu2ycjua
📸: Mauro Mari via Unsplash

#INNS #marine #coastal #ecosystemservices
American lobster (Homarus americanus) served up on a blue plate with lemon and mussels.
October 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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💩According to @naturalengland.bsky.social's #StateofNaturalCapital report, pollution has a very high impact on English #coastalmargins, and a moderate impact on #marine habitats; this impact is set to continue.

Link: publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/...
📸: Claudia Manas, Unsplash
A young girl pinches her nose as she dunks below the water's surface.
September 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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😮Due to over-exploitation of fishing resources, marine produce is at high-risk, according to @naturalengland.bsky.social's #StateofNaturalCapital report.

Report link: t.co/iGxAXtnd5r
UK gov't announcement on MPA bottom-trawling: tinyurl.com/56ynduz7
📸: Engin Akyurt, Unsplash
A close-up view of a surprised-looking salmon (Salmo salar) with its mouth wide open.
September 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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🎡 @naturalengland.bsky.social's #StateofNaturalCapital report states that land- and sea-use change currently has a very high impact on coastal ecosystems.
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Learn more about how to boost investment in our coastal towns and habitats: tinyurl.com/mu2ycjua
📸: Veerle Contant, Unsplash
Brighton's Palace Pier on a sunny day, with flags flying, pigeons wheeling overhead, and a view of the sea in the background.
August 29, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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⏰There’s still time!
If you live in the #CambridgeshireandPeterboroughCouncil areas, you can still #HaveYourSay on the #LocalNatureRecoveryStrategy.

🗺️NCS developed the #LocalHabitatMap for this LNRS, it displays the most important areas identified for nature recovery.
Explore: tinyurl.com/bdzjb6sh
The mapping portal view of the Local Habitat Map of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, with the area border outlined in blue. Areas that Could Become of particular importance for biodiversity are shown in orange in the area, according to the drop-down legend on the right hand side of the portal.
August 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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🦭 Marine and coastal benefits like produce from the sea, cultural benefits and thriving plants and wildlife are all at high-risk, according to @naturalengland.bsky.social's #StateofNaturalCapital report.

Link: publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/...
📸 credit: Ray Harrington, Unsplash
A grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) seems to smile as they stretch out in the sun on a rocky outcrop covered in kelp and seaweed.
August 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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📢 #HaveYourSay!
If you live in the Bedfordshire area, there is still time to have your say on the #LocalNatureRecoveryStrategy.
NCS led the #BlueLens project, which identified opportunities for enhancing the #waterenvironment across Beds.

Learn more: tinyurl.com/2zynmddz
August 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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🏖️Over the next few weeks, we will dive deeper into @naturalengland.bsky.social's #StateofNaturalCapital report, and the benefits, drivers of change and #naturebasedsolutions that can help turn the tides towards positive change in #marineecosystems and #coastalmargins.

Source: tinyurl.com/c3urdzkx
A sea-view from a coastal cliff on a sunny day; above, a gull coasts on strong winds, below, the cliffside meets a sandy beach, dotted with large boulders and tidal pools, with erosion from the cliffsides spreading out on the beach.
August 1, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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🎉We are pleased to share that our natural capital baseline assessment and enhancement plan for @ulsteruni.bsky.social's Coleraine and Knocktarna sites is a Finalist for the 2025 Nature & Biodiversity Award category at the @bitcuk.bsky.social Northern Ireland Responsible Business Awards! (1/3)
July 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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⚠️In England's urban ecosystems, invasive species currently have a moderate impact on the extent and condition of urban habitats and their impact is increasing, see @naturalengland.bsky.social's #StateofNaturalCapital report.
Source: t.co/rSwFCf6rX1
📸: Annie Spratt via Unsplash
A spray of bright pink rhododendron (Rhododendron ponticum) sticks out in an otherwise lush green forest.
July 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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🥵It's baking!
England is now considerably below national targets on local greenspaces, both “on our doorsteps” and in the wider neighbourhood, see @naturalengland.bsky.social's #StateofNaturalCapital report.
Source: publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/...
📸: London.Nanzhi, Unsplash
A couple walk their dog on a hot day, passing a bicycle on a post. They walk along a road with brick buildings and walls next to them, in the background, green trees and hanging baskets can be seen.
July 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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⛵Blue spaces provide cool havens on hot summer days and other benefits like flood protection, cultural benefits, and clean and plentiful water, see @naturalengland.bsky.social’s #StateofNaturalCapital report.

Source: publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/...
📸: Chris Porter via Unsplash
Calm waters at the docks in Liverpool on a sunny day, a blue and white boat slowly motors by, and the iconic cityscape rests in the background.
June 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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🏭In England’s urban areas, #pollution has a very-high impact on urban green and blue spaces’ condition and extent. This trend is set to remain at a very-high level, see @naturalengland.bsky.social’s #StateofNaturalCapital report.

publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/...
📸: Lx1, Unsplash
June 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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☀️🤝Last week, the NCS team met up for one of our bi-annual in-person days, our company usually works from home but our in-person days are highly valued, as they allow for in-person connection, learning and collaboration.
Learn more about our team: naturalcapitalsolutions.co.uk
NCS team members with laptops out, around a large white table, engage with team member presenting a map in the background. NCS team members all smile at the camera in an office space, in the background, a detailed map is displayed on a screen. NCS team members smile at the camera on a sunny day, they are all wearing hiking gear, and in the background, green hills and rocky cliffsides can be seen.
June 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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🧺Urban green and blue spaces provide multiple services, like recreation, noise pollution regulation, and health and well-being. Protecting, connecting and enhancing these spaces is more important than ever to serve local communities and wildlife.
Link: tinyurl.com/c3urdzkx
📸: Taylor Keeran, Unsplash
People relaxing in a lush green park on a sunny day, with the London Eye visible between the trees in the background.
June 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Happy #WorldEnvironmentDay! #Plasticpollution has negative impacts across all #ecosystemassets and #ecosystemservice benefit delivery like water, air and soil quality regulation and human health (microplastics have been found throughout our bodies, including arteries, fetuses, and organs)[email protected]
June 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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🚣What’s your favourite urban greenspace?
💚Urban green and blue spaces are full of variety but in England, urban ecosystem assets are at medium-high risk, due to drivers such as pollution and land-use change, see @naturalengland.bsky.social’s #StateofNaturalCapital report.
Link: tinyurl.com/c3urdzkx
May 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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🐝In light of #WorldBeeDay this week, we want to raise awareness that the decline of bumblebees since the 1960's in the UK has been linked to the decline in semi-natural grasslands, see @naturalengland.bsky.social's #StateofNaturalCapital report.
tinyurl.com/c3urdzkx
📸: Avani Mann, Unsplash
A busy bumblebee wends its way through a field of dandelions, white clover and wild grasses.
May 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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🌍This #EndangeredSpeciesDay we are highlighting some of our staff's favourite UK endangered species. The biodiversity and climate crises heavily influence each other and conservation efforts to help these species can create multiple benefits for #climatechange mitigation. (1/2)
Six photos of endangered species within the NCS logo, from right: European otter (Lutra lutra): Andy Willis, Unsplash Hen Harrier (Circus cyaneus): Vincent Van Salinge, Unsplash Beard Lichen (Usnea spp): Wild Spirit, Unsplash Southern Damselfly (Coenagrion mercuriale): Andrew Powell, Unsplash Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus): Nikita Turkovich, Unsplash European Greenfinch (Chloris chloris): Doncoombez, Unsplash
May 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM