Unlocking the Power of PeatSCOPE: A Digital Tool Designed to Help Understand and Protect Our Peatlands We’re excited to announce the official launch of PeatSCOPE; a digital tool that has been designed to help understand and protect peatlands. Since the completion of the pre-commercial stage of CivTech6 in April 2023, Environment Systems has independently hosted and […]
Environment Systems is proud to celebrate its 20-year partnership with the Woodland Trust, the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity. Our first collaboration was to develop “Woods for People,” a database of accessible woodlands in the UK.
PeatSCOPE – Prioritising peatland restoration Peatlands occur in every climatic zone, and according to Xu et al. (2018), the total area globally is around 4.23 million km2, corresponding to 2.83% of the Earth’s land surface. Peatlands have a significant role in the fight against the effects of climate change, in storing carbon, acting as […]
The PASTORAL team and participants look back to the summer of 22. We discuss the impact of climate change on pasture systems, the resilience of diverse leys and the impact of drought on carbon dynamics.
Welcome to the summer PASTORAL newsletter.
First of all, we would like to thank you for your continued participation ; it is invaluable for us to have the opportunity to work with you as we shape PASTORAL
Environment Systems opens its new office at The Bayes Centre at the University of Edinburgh.
This new office will drive forward best practice in targeted peatland restoration.
Afforestation – Tree Suitability Mapping
In 2019, the Committee for Climate Change (CCC) commissioned a study to investigate the application of spatial modelling to tree species and site selection in Wales to see if its ambition of planting 152,000 ha in Wales was feasible. We carried out the modelling.