On 9th November, IFB Partner, the UK Centre of Ecology and Hydrology, hosted a field visit to Chichester Harbour - a frontline project demonstrating large-scale approaches to nature restoration.
In support of the growing need for planning and verification of nature positive investments, the event demonstrated a variety of new monitoring technologies including autonomous biodiversity monitoring systems using Artificial Intelligence, and advanced greenhouse gas flux towers.
Twenty-six stakeholders from finance, academia, Councils, regulatory bodies, NGOs and conservation bodies saw and engaged with projects that demonstrate large-scale approaches to carbon capture, biodiversity recovery and nutrient storage through the improvement of ecologically important subtidal and intertidal habitats at the harbour, which sits on the border of West Sussex and Hampshire.