Information, insight, impact

We pair the technical expertise of the best of academia with clear, award-winning writing to deliver actionable and reliable results as quickly as possible. In everything we do, we’re laser-focused on generating real impact for our clients and guided throughout by our core values of clarity, integrity, intelligence and thoroughness. We’re specialists in environmental conservation, but have applied our skills to a wide variety of organisations, brands and sectors in the UK and internationally. 
 

 
 
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Insight reports and toolkits

Report writing and research is our bread and butter. Every year, we review hundreds of documents and finely craft thousands of words to create clear, informative and usable research and recommendations for our clients.

We’ve developed innovative approaches to systematically source and analyse key information on any subject, and to summarise it in a format that’s tailored to your audience. 

We pride ourselves on our versatility. We’re as happy delivering flagship impact reports for international not-for-profits as we are competitive analyses for conservation training providers. 

We’re as dedicated to developing toolkits that empower communities to conserve natural resources as we are to helping tourist businesses transition to a sustainable future. We’re as content producing scoping reports for the Pacific as we are policy reviews for the Indian Ocean. 

We’re as committed to exploring the potential of blockchain and big data as we are to researching deep sea mining, invasive species and community-centred conservation.

Whether they’re used to support decision making or policy development, organisational strategy or campaign management, we work hard to ensure that all of the reports we deliver help our clients to increase their impact and influence, and to spark positive change.


Academic papers

We’ll help you to turn your data and research into posters, presentations and journal articles. Our academic work is truly interdisciplinary in method and global in scope. We’ve developed novel research approaches that borrow not only from ecology, conservation science and socio-economics, but also from medicine, psychology and business management.

We’ve worked in geographies as varied as the South Pacific, Western Indian Ocean, Caribbean, Australasia and Northern Europe. 

We’ve published papers on subjects as diverse as community-centred conservation, protected area management and financing, evaluation design, environmental campaigns, invasive species, ecotourism, value chains, knowledge transfer and conservation volunteering. 

But if you don’t have any data, that’s no problem. We can help there too...
 

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data collection AND ANALYSIS

We’ll grow your idea from seed through design, data collection and analysis to write-up, communication and beyond. We’ll clarify your question, develop your questionnaire, wrangle your data, and sort your statistics. 

As devout interdisciplinarians we’re experienced in everything from terrestrial, freshwater and marine field techniques, through to in-person and online questionnaire surveys, focus groups and semi-structured interviews. 

We’ve delivered surveys to thousands of respondents, laid hundreds of quadrats and transects, and counted more fish, lizards and birds than we care to imagine. 

We’re skilled statisticians and regularly teach workshops to help scientists get the best out of Excel and R. We’re generalists, but have concentrated expertise in mixed-effects modelling, meta-analysis and automation. 
 

Some of the work we’re particularly proud of

 

We’re proud of what we’ve achieved for our clients. In everything we do, we push ourselves – and sometimes our clients – to ensure we deliver evidence and insight that accelerates environmental and social change.

 
 
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BLUE VENTURES

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GREENPEACE

WHO

Blue Ventures empowers tropical coastal communities to manage their own resources, developing rights-based fisheries management approaches aiming to sustain local fisheries and safeguard marine biodiversity. BV’s models, which include aquaculture, efforts to unlock and market the carbon sequestration value of marine vegetation (blue carbon), ecotourism, integrated conservation and health programming, rebuilding fisheries, and locally managed marine areas, share a common theme of inspiring local leadership in marine management by demonstrating that effective marine conservation is in everyone’s interest.


WHAT

We’ve worked with Blue Ventures on a range of research and science communication projects since 2011. To help BV build its research profile internationally, we’ve used complex statistics to analyse organisational datasets and have authored seven peer-reviewed papers which have received more than 20,000 views. We have several others in review.

We’ve also delivered numerous reports, toolkits, guides and visualisations to inform BV’s research policy and expansion strategy, and to help partners to replicate the organisation’s conservation and fisheries management successes in new geographies. 
 

The Marine Stewardship Council is an international non-profit organisation addressing the problem of unsustainable fishing, and safeguarding seafood supplies for the future. MSC uses its ecolabel and fishery certification program to contribute to the health of the world’s oceans by recognising and rewarding sustainable fishing practices, influencing the choices people make when buying seafood and working with partners to promote sustainable fishing and transform markets.

WHO


We’ve worked with the Marine Stewardship Council since 2015, developing the organisation’s science communications strategy, crafting immersive, human stories to increase the emotional power of their data and reimaging the flagship Global Impacts report.

In the last year, we’ve become increasingly involved MSC’s research, working alongside their communications and science and standards teams to deliver insight reports on seafood traceability, climate change and fisheries, nutrition and the carbon impacts of fishing vs other industries. 
 

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WHO

Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organisation with offices in over 40 countries. Greenpeace works to ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity and focuses its campaigning on worldwide issues such as climate change, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, genetic engineering, and anti-nuclear issues. 


WHAT

We’ve researched and written insight reports for Greenpeace on topics as wide ranging as global overfishing, deep sea mining, and the sustainability of pole-and-line fishing. Our work has been used to support data-driven campaigns championing the world’s oceans. It also had an important role to play in the founding of the International Pole & Line Foundation, a not-for-profit working to develop sustainable and equitable pole-and-line fisheries. 

 

CONTACT US

We do great things for the organisations we love, and we’d love to love you