A better way to drive investment in nature

The Bristol Avon Catchment Market is a world-leading approach to nature recovery that benefits landholders, businesses and the environment. 

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HIGH-INTEGRITY NATURE MARKETS CONFERENCE


The inaugural High Integrity Nature Markets Conference provided the opportunity to reflect on the Bristol Avon Catchment Market experience to date, and explore the importance of effective market governance and market rules.  Workshops brought together landholders, environmental and cultural heritage specialists, nature market experts, local planning authorities and businesses to explore how to make nature markets work for everyone.  Bruce Howard from the Ecosystems Knowledge Network guided participants through the comprehensive programme that featured a wide range of expert speakers.  See more images from the event here.


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EMPOWERING TOMORROW'S ECOLOGISTS


Read our latest blog post to learn more about how the Bristol Avon Catchment Market Traineeship Program is helping build skills and employability in the ecological sector.

MARKET ROUND 2 - SETTLEMENT RESULTS

The second Market Round of the Bristol Avon Catchment Market has settled succesfully, and will:

  • Deliver 0.76 hectares of Grassland Projects and 230 metres of Hedgerow Projects
  • Generate rights to 6.77 Biodiversity Units.


Find out more about the Market Round 2 Settlement results.

A LANDHOLDER'S PERSPECTIVE

We interviewed one of our landholders to capture their experience of participating in the Bristol Avon Catchment Market.  Watch the video here.

The Bristol Avon Catchment Market is being delivered through a collaboration between Avon Wildlife Trust, Wiltshire Wildlife Trust and EnTrade.

The Avon and the Wiltshire Wildlife Trusts and EnTrade are working together to create a market that delivers local, high-impact and verified projects to restore nature and deliver a range of environmental services such as increased biodiversity, carbon reduction and natural flood management.


The Wiltshire Wildlife Trust will work with landholders so that environmental credits from projects are of the highest-integrity, delivering nature recovery where it is most needed.  EnTrade will ensure that the market generates fair prices for buyers and sellers through a user-friendly trading platform.

This project is funded by the Government's Green Recovery Challenge Fund. The fund was developed by Defra and its Arm's-Length Bodies. It is being delivered by The National Lottery Heritage Fund in partnership with Natural England, the Environment Agency and Forestry Commission.

Heritage and Landscape consultants, CFP, are evaluation specialists who have been working with the project team during the first and second market rounds to measure successes, identify lessons learnt and demonstrate impact.

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