The Biodiversity Net Gain County Championship

Discover your county’s habitat wealth. Explore the rankings. Vote for your favourite.

How does your county compare with its neighbours? Where are England’s richest habitats—and where could restoring nature make the greatest difference?

The BNG County Championship, created by Nature Equity, brings England’s habitat wealth into view. Explore regional and national rankings, discover the landscapes behind the results and see how habitats compare through the lens of biodiversity net gain (BNG) and indicative financial value.

Explore the rankings · Vote for your county

Your county. Your landscape. Your say.

Back your county and discover what makes it distinctive. Join the conversation about where nature is thriving, where it needs help and what could improve its future.

Financial value tells one part of that story. Wildlife, landscape, heritage and our connection to place matter too. The Championship invites a bigger question: can making nature’s value visible help us protect it, restore it and build resilience for future generations?

For landowners: discover the potential of your land

Your land’s existing habitats provide a starting point for understanding opportunities for restoration and biodiversity enhancement. Nature Equity helps you explore that baseline and identify where further investigation could reveal potential for habitat improvement and BNG income.

Explore your land’s potential

For developers: bring biodiversity into decisions earlier

Understand a site’s habitats before key decisions are fixed. Nature Equity helps you identify potentially sensitive areas, compare locations and consider how avoiding impacts could reduce later redesign, delays and costs.

Explore your development site

National evidence. A local starting point.

Behind the Championship is Nature Equity’s modelled habitat evidence. Within our processed coverage, we provide habitat baselines and indicative valuations for selected project areas, helping landowners, developers and advisers focus their next steps and target professional surveys.

Rankings and valuations reflect the data, methods and assumptions described in our methodology. They are detailed, off the shelf assessments, rather than confirmed habitat condition, saleable biodiversity units or guaranteed income, and support subsequent ecological surveys and statutory BNG assessment.