Turtle doves silhouetted on the bare branches of a dead tree at dusk at Cannwood

Turtle doves roosting at dusk, Cannwood, Somerset

Bespoke data solutions for nature recovery

One living record of your land

Camera traps, acoustic recorders, GPS tags, surveys in the field: a rewilding project generates data every day. Canopy builds the software that brings it together as it arrives, so you can see what's changing on your land and act on it.

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What we do

From a shoebox of SD cards to a live platform your whole team logs into. We take on the whole journey, or any one part of it.

All your data in one place

We consolidate survey spreadsheets, consultant reports and historic records into one shared platform, so every sighting, survey and device is at your whole team's fingertips.

Bespoke applications

Software shaped around how you actually work: volunteer survey entry, camera-trap review, tracking dashboards. Built quickly, then refined in the field alongside you.

Device pipelines & AI

Camera traps, acoustic recorders and GPS tags feeding your record automatically. AI species identification you review, rather than data entry you dread.

Analysis & reporting

Seasonal trends, species discovery curves and the evidence funders, partners and regulators ask for. Generated from live data, not compiled by hand each year.

A flock of turtle doves and chaffinches taking flight from rough grassland at Cannwood

Turtle doves at Cannwood

In the field

We don't just advise. We build, deploy and run. The Canopy platform began as a bespoke build for one rewilding estate and is now in daily use at two.

713

species recorded, identified by surveyors and AI

23,909

individuals recorded, every one mapped with who, where and when

400

surveys completed, from butterfly walks to camera-trap cards

staff, ecologists and volunteers signed up and recording

Case study

Heal Rewilding

Heal Somerset, a rewilding charity

Heal runs on volunteers, so their Canopy is shaped around them. Survey groups for butterflies and dragonflies plan their season, recorders enter counts from a phone in the field, and every walk feeds the same living record the staff team works from. It's the same platform as Cannwood underneath, with a different application on top. That's what bespoke means.

Canopy screenshot: the Heal survey map covered in bird sightings marked by BTO code, with a song thrush being added as a singing male from the field

Recording in the field

Birds added to the map as you walk, by BTO code, from a phone.

Canopy screenshot: seasonal counts of Meadow Brown butterflies from April to September, with 2024, 2025 and 2026 compared on one chart

Trends year on year

Any species' season, charted from the walks and compared across years; no end-of-year spreadsheet.

Canopy screenshot: the Heal reserve map with camera trap, acoustic recorder and moth trap markers across the parcels, and survey routes drawn in red

Device management

Camera traps, acoustic recorders and moth traps pinned to the reserve map; the whole team can see what's deployed where.

Case study

Cannwood

A 400-acre rewilding estate in Somerset

Cannwood is where Canopy began: one estate's camera traps, bird surveys and historic records pulled into a single living map. Today the platform runs the estate's day-to-day ecological record. Satellite-tagged turtle doves are followed through the season, camera-trap cards are identified by AI and reviewed by eye, and decades of aerial imagery show the land changing on one timeline.

Canopy screenshot: latest camera-trap photo for each species at Cannwood, including turtle dove, roe deer and wildcat

AI species ID

A card of camera-trap images identified in minutes; you review the calls, not the folders.

The land, changing

Aerial imagery on one timeline, 2000 to 2024: fields returning to woodland.

Canopy screenshot: a satellite-tagged turtle dove's GPS track across Somerset, from Cannwood to the Mendips, with 2,404 GPS fixes clustered on the map

GPS tracking

Satellite-tagged turtle doves followed through the season, on the same map as the surveys.

Your project could be next. Tell us about it →

Tell us about your data

A 30-minute conversation about what you're collecting, what's stuck in spreadsheets, and what it could become. No pitch deck, just a clear picture of what we'd build and why.

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