Job Share: Embedding environmental and geospatial science in nature recovery and rewilding

支持和支持由自然驱动的进程的自然恢复项目，促进造福人类和野生动物的野生自然，是应对气候变化、生物多样性丧失和污染等全球环境挑战的核心。大规模和激进的方法，如景观重新野生，正在迅速流行起来。除了带来显著的生物多样性收益外，重新野生化还可以提供碳储存和水调节(例如缓解洪水和干旱)的潜力，并可能带来一些风险，但这些变化没有以全面和标准化的方式捕捉到。以科学为导向的监测和适当使用衡量标准来捕捉由重新野生动物引起的变化，对于支持更好地理解景观变化，使土地所有者能够通过新兴的自然融资倡议(例如，碳信用和生物多样性信用)获得投资，以及转变政策以集中自然，造福自然和社会至关重要。申请者目前与开拓性的重新野生动物保护场地、环境慈善机构和最佳实践组织、政府机构、地方当局、自然恢复团体、居民和社区团体合作，开发对重新野生动物恢复方法和结果的新见解。我们已经确定了重大的知识差距和基础设施限制，这阻碍了对重新开垦的水文结果的评估。因此，扩大监测基础设施，以量化自然恢复对水调节生态系统服务(如减轻洪水和干旱)和任何风险的贡献，是一项紧迫的优先事项。我们还确定，现有用于量化退耕还林地植被变化的数据集不足，土地所有者迫切需要决策支持，以有效量化植被变化，并创造进入生物多样性和碳信用的新兴金融市场的机会。复野的势头正在迅速增长，正在制定确保以标准化方式捕捉变化的协议，包括复野英国的复野监测协议。现在是确保核心环境过程嵌入指标和监测实践的关键时刻，并确保数据采集服务以及数据共享和处理机制到位，以支持为评估指标捕获基本数据。具体地说，我们将：确定并与广泛的利益攸关方接触，以带来关于重新保护监测和评估需求的不同视角。这将包括从土地所有者和项目经理到场地网络、支持和咨询组织(包括ReWilding British)和负责监测基础设施的政府机构。提高人们对重新野生和自然恢复对水调节(例如洪水和干旱)的好处和风险的认识，并利用知识交流推动在国家方案和个别项目和网络中增加水文监测。提供标牌和决策支持工具，使野生项目能够捕捉植被变化，并通过应用遥感技术获得新兴自然融资倡议，包括碳信用和生物多样性信用。将支撑关键生态系统服务(碳储存、水管理)的环境进程纳入国家监测协议，以标准化的方式捕捉所有重新放牧地点的变化，并建立用于资助监测和共享数据的创新选择，以支持项目评估和利用对自然恢复的投资。

Nature recovery projects that enable and support nature-driven processes and promote wilder nature for the benefit of people and wildlife are central to addressing the global environmental challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. Large-scale and radical approaches such as landscape rewilding are rapidly gaining popularity. In addition to delivering dramatic biodiversity gains, rewilding can offer potential for carbon storage and water regulation (e.g. flood and drought mitigation), and possibly some risks, but these changes are not being captured in a comprehensive and standardised way. Science-led monitoring and appropriate use of metrics to capture rewilding-driven change is essential to support improved understanding of landscape change, enable landowners to access investment through emerging nature finance initiatives (e.g., carbon credits and biodiversity credits) and transform policy to centralise nature for the benefit of nature and society.The applicants currently work in collaboration with pioneering rewilding sites, environmental charities and best practice organisations, government agencies, local authorities, nature recovery groups, residents and community groups to develop new insights into rewilding approaches and outcomes. We have established major knowledge gaps and infrastructure limitations that are preventing evaluation of the hydrological outcomes of rewilding. Expanding monitoring infrastructure to quantify the contribution of nature recovery to water regulating ecosystem services (e.g. flood and drought mitigation) and any risks is therefore an urgent priority. We have also established that existing data sets for quantifying vegetation change at rewilding sites are insufficient and landowners urgently require decision-support to effectively quantify vegetation change and create access to emerging financial markets in biodiversity and carbon credits. Rewilding momentum is growing rapidly and protocols for ensuring change is captured in a standardised way are being developed, including Rewilding Britain's Rewilding Monitoring Protocol. Now is the critical time to ensure that core environmental processes are embedded within metrics and monitoring practices, and that data acquisition services and data sharing and processing mechanisms are in place to support the capture of essential data for evaluation metrics.Specifically, we will:Identify and engage with a wide range of stakeholders to bring diverse perspectives on rewilding monitoring and evaluation needs. This will range from individual landowners and project managers to networks of sites, supporting and advisory organisations including Rewilding Britain, and government agencies with monitoring infrastructure responsibilities.Raise awareness of the benefits and risks of rewilding and nature recovery for water regulation (e.g. floods and droughts) and use knowledge exchange to drive an increase in hydrological monitoring across national programmes and individual projects and networks.Provide signposting and decision-support tools to enable rewilding projects to capture vegetation change and access emerging nature finance initiatives including carbon credits and biodiversity credits through application of remote sensing technologies. Embed the environmental processes that underpin key ecosystem services (carbon storage, water regulation) into a national monitoring protocol to capture change across all rewilding sites in a standardised way and establish innovative options for funding monitoring and sharing data to support the evaluation of projects and leverage investment in nature recovery.