Countryside Survey 2018-2023

Countryside Survey is a unique study or "audit" of the natural resources of the UK's countryside. The Survey has been carried out at regular intervals since 1978. The countryside is sampled and studied using rigorous scientific methods, allowing us to compare results from later surveys with those from previous surveys. In this way, we can detect the gradual and subtle changes that occur in the countryside over time. A series of reports have been published outlining the main findings for UK and individual countries, most recently in 2007. This collection belongs to a new phase of Countryside Survey which has adopted a rolling program of monitoring as of 2019 (as the UKCEH Countryside Survey/UKCEH-CS). The first 5 year cycle of the rolling programme dates from 2019-2023 (with some pilot sites done in 2018). This work was partly supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R016429/1 as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability and through the UKCEH National Capability for UK Challenges Programme NE/Y006208/1. Additional data was collected for hedgerows during this time period, funded by DEFRA/Natural England.