Habitat & Species Recovery
Nature Recovery: Data & Integrations
What is recorded, what it connects to and who can see it.
The module maintains 8 core entities and connects to 5 external sources. Everything is exportable in open formats and every instance of sharing requires explicit consent.
Data model
What the module records, and how it connects
These are the entities the module maintains. Because they are shared across the platform rather than owned by one screen, a record created here is available everywhere it is relevant.
- Habitat parcel
- Management prescription
- Survey
- Transect
- Species record
- Condition assessment
- Outcome measure
- Cluster
Every entity carries a full audit trail and is exportable in open formats under the Farm Data Charter.
Working view
Nature Recovery, at a glance
The numbers you would check before doing anything else in nature recovery. Each one is live against your own record, and each one tells you where it came from.
Choose a view
Hectares of habitat created
572.7 ha
Species richness change
223.0 ha
Condition targets achieved
59
+1.0%
Surveys completed on protocol
78 %
+6 pts
target 95%
Outcome payments secured
£11,237
+3.6%
What needs attention
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Action needed
Monitoring burden causing abandonment
mitigated by fast offline capture and volunteer coordination
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For information
Attributing change to management rather than weather
mitigated by control and long series
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For information
Outcome payment risk if targets are missed
surfaced at agreement design
Integrations
What it connects to
Agrivencia integrates with authoritative sources rather than rebuilding them. Where no production interface exists, a documented user-mediated route is provided instead.
- National biodiversity recording schemes
- Natural England and devolved agency datasets
- Species recording applications
- Farmer cluster networks
- Scheme evidence endpoints
Integration availability, licensing and cost vary by source. The integration catalogue states the position for each one honestly, including where a commercial licence is required.
By nation
The same job, four different sets of rules
Delivered by: Defra, the Rural Payments Agency, Natural England, the Environment Agency and the Forestry Commission.
Main scheme: Environmental Land Management, with the Sustainable Farming Incentive as the principal offer alongside Countryside Stewardship, capital grants and Landscape Recovery.
Delinked payments end after 2027. Windows have closed at short notice before, so budget-fill status is worth watching.
Delivered by: The Scottish Government and the Rural Payments and Inspections Division.
Main scheme: A four-tier framework under the Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Act 2024, with base and enhanced direct payments and elective and complementary tiers following.
Whole Farm Plan components are a condition of support and phase in over several years. Miss a component and the payment is at risk.
Delivered by: The Welsh Government and Rural Payments Wales.
Main scheme: The Sustainable Farming Scheme, with Universal, Optional and Collaborative layers, replacing the legacy area payment which phases out by 2029.
The Universal layer requires twelve actions, at least ten per cent habitat and a farm carbon baseline. Welsh language provision is a legal expectation, not an optional extra.
Delivered by: DAERA.
Main scheme: The Sustainable Agriculture Programme, with the Farm Sustainability Payment as the area-based safety net alongside beef, suckler, sheep, protein crop and horticulture schemes.
Conditionality now includes soil nutrient health and bovine genetics participation, and progressive capping applies above sixty thousand pounds.
Detail
How the data is held
Public schemes increasingly pay for habitat and species outcomes rather than actions, which requires monitoring most farms have never done. This module plans habitat creation and management, runs structured species monitoring including citizen-science protocols, and produces the outcome evidence that outcome-based payment depends on.
The Environmental Improvement Plan commits to restoring or creating 250,000 hectares of wildlife-rich habitat outside protected sites by 2030 and to doubling the number of farms providing year-round wildlife resources by 2030, to be delivered through the main scheme offers. Agri-environment agreements already cover an estimated 6.1 million hectares, around 69 per cent of England's utilised agricultural area, which makes outcome evidence the binding constraint rather than participation.
Everything Nature Recovery records is written into the same platform data spine as every other module, which is why a single entry can satisfy an operational need, a scheme evidence requirement, an assurance clause and a carbon activity line at once. That is the whole design premise: the work is already being done, and it is the recording of it that is duplicated.
Payment schedule
What is due, and when it lands
Farm support arrives in instalments from several bodies on different calendars. Set against your own overdraft, the question is not how much but when — so the ledger is ordered by date, not by scheme.
| When | Payment | From | Amount | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March | Countryside Stewardship | Defra / Natural England / Rural Payments Agency | — | Expected |
| June | Sustainable Farming Incentive 2026 | Defra / Rural Payments Agency | — | Agreed |
| June | Landscape Recovery | Defra / Natural England | — | Eligible |
| March | Environmental Farming Scheme | DAERA | — | Eligible |
| March | Agri-Environment Climate Scheme | Scottish Government / Rural Payments and Inspections Division | — | Eligible |
| June | Environmental Land Management Capital Grants | Defra / Rural Payments Agency | — | Eligible |
- — Agreed and scheduled
- — Claimed, awaiting payment
- — Eligible, unclaimed
What the statuses mean
- Agreed
- Under a signed agreement with a scheduled payment date.
- Expected
- Claimed and assessed; payment date per the published standard.
- Eligible
- Your holding appears to qualify but nothing is claimed yet.
How we handle evidence
Where these figures come from
Agrivencia grades every figure it publishes. Primary legislation, official statistics and audit reports are treated as authoritative. Levy body and professional body data is treated as reliable. Commercial trackers and trade press are treated as indicative and labelled as such. Where sources conflict, the conflict is shown rather than resolved silently.
- Authoritative Legislation, statutory instruments, official scheme rules, national audit and public accounts reporting, departmental annual reports and accredited official statistics.
- Reliable Parliamentary committee evidence, peer-reviewed research, independent economic institutes and levy body analysis.
- Supporting Professional bodies, land agents, certification schemes and industry associations.
- Indicative Commercial market trackers and trade press, used for corroboration only and always labelled.
Payment rates, caps and windows in UK farm support change frequently and sometimes without notice. Nothing on this platform is a substitute for the current published scheme rules or for professional advice.
Questions answered
What people ask about Nature Recovery
Does this replace the software I already use?
Not necessarily. Agrivencia integrates with authoritative sources and mainstream packages rather than insisting on replacing them. Where an incumbent does one job well, the platform connects to it; where the job spans several systems and nobody does it, the platform does it.
Will it work where I have no signal?
Yes. Field capture in Nature Recovery is offline first, storing locally and synchronising when a connection returns. Only around a fifth of UK farms report reliable signal across the whole holding, so this is a design assumption rather than a feature.
What happens when the scheme rules change?
Scheme rules are held as data rather than code, so a rate change, a cap change or a window closure is a content update that takes effect the same day. The platform also alerts you to what the change does to your own position.
Who owns the data I put in?
You do. The Farm Data Charter gives you a complete export in open formats at any time, and every instance of data sharing requires an explicit, revocable consent that is visible in your account.
Does it work if I farm across a border?
Yes, and that is one of the main reasons the platform exists. A business with land in more than one nation sees one reconciled view rather than two portals, with obligations and deadlines from both administrations in a single calendar.
Can my agronomist or land agent use it too?
Yes. You grant scoped, time-limited access per holding and per module, and you can revoke it in one click. Advisers never get a shared password or a blanket view.
What is the biggest limitation of this module?
Monitoring burden causing abandonment. Mitigated by fast offline capture and volunteer coordination. We would rather state that plainly than let you discover it after signing.
See Nature Recovery running on your own holding
Thirty minutes, using your parcels, your schemes and your enterprises rather than a sample farm. No obligation and no sales script — if it does not fit your business we will say so.
- Free tier available
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- Your data stays yours