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Revolutionising Biodiversity Net Gain – Meet Coreo’s new Post-Intervention Tool

We are thrilled to announce that Coreo's post-intervention tool is officially live! Designed to save you time (and your sanity), our new post-intervention workflow handles the heavy lifting of BNG planning for you.

Ali Harvey Apr 28 2026

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Scaling Your Expertise: Coreo and Gentian Join Forces to Empower Ecologists

We are thrilled to announce that we’ve partnered with Gentian to integrate ultra-high-resolution satellite imagery and AI analysis directly into Coreo.

Ali Harvey Feb 26 2026

Introducing Drafts and Navigation Enhancements

Introducing Drafts - enabling you to exit a record at any point and save your progress quickly and easily.

Ali Harvey Feb 04 2026

Example of a high-resolution UKHab map export from Coreo featuring project metadata, and redline boundary area

From Field to Report: Streamlining UKHab Mapping with Coreo

Coreo's UKHab Map Export tool automates the creation of professional, report-ready maps

Ali Harvey Jan 14 2026

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Building a Stronger Core(o) in 2025

As 2025 draws to a close, we’ve been looking back at everything we've achieved with our community of ecologists and conservationists...

Ali Harvey Dec 18 2025

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Coreo Empowers Species Recovery Trust to Accelerate UK Conservation

The Species Recovery Trust (SRT), a charity dedicated to saving the UK’s rarest species from extinction, has adopted Coreo as...

Ali Harvey Dec 03 2025

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Coreo Helps Nattergal Save Days of Data Transcription and Accelerate Rewilding Efforts

We’re thrilled to share how Coreo is accelerating nature restoration with our recent case study featuring Nattergal, a company dedicated...

Ali Harvey Nov 12 2025

New in Coreo: UK Hab Symbology in App & Collaborators’ Feature

What’s New in Coreo? We’ve rolled out two powerful new updates to Coreo designed to improve your in-field decision-making and...

Ali Harvey Sep 24 2025

Streamline Your Surveys: UKHab and Coreo Surveys Now All In One Platform!

Our latest update to Coreo is designed to further streamline your workflow – we’ve now fully integrated the UKHab & BNG...

Ali Harvey Jun 29 2025

Launch of the Big Blue Bag Project & App

The Big Blue Bag project and app has just launched with the aim of empowering citizen scientists to protect the marine environment.

Ali Harvey May 13 2025

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Coreo’s Data-Driven Approach to Breeding Bird Surveys

The days are getting longer and warmer, the air is filled with birdsong, and for ecologists, that means breeding bird...

Ali Harvey Apr 28 2025

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Ready To Streamline Your Bat Surveys?

Today marks International Bat Appreciation Day and we're excited to announce the launch of our brand-new PRA Survey template.

Ali Harvey Apr 17 2025

Shaping the Future of UKHab Symbology with Your Help

At Natural Aptitude, we believe in the power of collaboration to drive meaningful change. And recently, we’ve witnessed this first-hand...

Ali Harvey Apr 02 2025

Building surveys in Coreo just got even better!

We're thrilled to announce a significant upgrade to Coreo's Form Builder and Collections functionality.

Ali Harvey Mar 19 2025

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December 24 release of UKHab & BNG Platform

We're thrilled to announce the latest release of our UKHab & BNG Platform, packed with enhancements including a game-changing Condition Assessment Export feature.

Ali Harvey Dec 10 2024

More New Survey Templates in Coreo

We're thrilled to unveil a new series of ready-to-use survey templates in Coreo, designed to save you valuable time and help you conduct a wider range of surveys with greater efficiency.

Ali Harvey Nov 25 2024

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New Mapping & more in our latest release!

Unlock powerful new mapping capabilities and more in the latest UKHab & BNG Platform release – all designed to save you time and enhance survey efficiency.

Ali Harvey Nov 14 2024

Two maps from the UKHab & BNG Platform - one showing the UKHab standard symbology and the other showing areas which have the highest distinctiveness

What’s new in the UKHab & BNG Platform?

The UKHab & BNG Platform has been designed and built with ecologists to meet the needs of organisations looking to...

Ali Harvey Sep 24 2024

UKHab & BNG Platform Update

In addition to the introduction of Bing Maps, we are pleased to announce a whole host of enhancements to the UKHab & BNG platform. Built on valuable customer feedback, these latest updates aim to streamline workflows and provide even greater functionality. Key improvements include...

Ali Harvey Aug 28 2024

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Bing Maps Comes to Coreo!

We’re thrilled to announce the integration of Bing's satellite imagery into Coreo's mapping service. This exciting development marks a significant step forward in our ongoing commitment to improving data quality and accuracy for our users.

Ali Harvey Aug 22 2024

Coreo Folders Bring Order to Your Ecological Data!

Organising surveys and projects in Coreo just got even easier with the introduction of folders. You can now group related...

Ali Harvey Jun 04 2024

Helping to turn the tide on biodiversity loss

Reflections on Biodiversity Net Gain One of the best parts of my job is that I get to speak to...

Dave Kilbey May 31 2024

The new UKHab & BNG Platform is here!

We are excited to announce the release of the new UKHab & BNG Platform today. Designed to help you with...

Ali Harvey Apr 05 2024

Spring into survey season with Coreo’s new GIS tools!

We are very excited to announce the latest release of Coreo which features several new GIS-style tools. These are particularly...

Ali Harvey Feb 29 2024

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Streamline your BNG workflow with Coreo

Today marks the official arrival of mandatory Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) for major developments in England. Whilst it’s an exciting...

Ali Harvey Feb 12 2024

The new UKHab Data Portal is here!

Designed to streamline BNG reporting. Our main purpose with Coreo is to help you to streamline and improve data collection...

Ali Harvey Feb 09 2024

New Template Gallery

Creating surveys just got even easier with the launch of our new Template Gallery which gives you access to pre-built...

Ali Harvey Jan 30 2024

Offline functionality now available in Coreo

We’re very excited to announce that we have now launched version 2.0 of Coreo. For the last 12 months we’ve...

Dave Kilbey Mar 13 2023

Taxus Ecology – Transforming data collection with Coreo

Find out how Coreo has supported Taxus Ecology to streamline their data collection on international projects

Dave Kilbey Jan 21 2023

An introduction to Mink MApp – an app focused on eradicating the American mink.

Background Throughout the 1900’s, water voles were a familiar sight on many water bodies across the UK. Immortalised as ‘Ratty’...

Dave Kilbey Dec 20 2022

Offline functionality is coming to Coreo!

We’re excited to announce that we will soon be launching full offline functionality within Coreo. Coreo was created with one...

Dave Kilbey Dec 15 2022

Curlews, Culture and Conservation

Photograph by David Swann Last month, we announced our Charity Partnership with Curlew Action – a small charity dedicated to...

Dave Kilbey Oct 21 2022

Our new charity partnership

Photograph by Andy Gregory Natural Apptitude was formed in 2013. One of our key aims is to make a positive...

Dave Kilbey Sep 13 2022

The UKHab Survey App now supports v3.1 of the Biodiversity Metric

It’s probably fair to say that the introduction of the UKHab Classification has been one of the biggest changes (and...

Dave Kilbey Jul 05 2022

Building a business case for software in your ecological consultancy

As an ecologist, you understand how important accurate data collection is. Without the correct data, you run the risk of...

Dave Kilbey Apr 13 2022

Coreo – feature of the month: data validation and verification functionality

For November’s feature of the month, we are focusing on Coreo’s data validation and verification functionality Background One of the...

Dave Kilbey Jan 07 2022

Coreo – feature of the month: Recording location based data

This month we explore one of the key features of Coreo – recording location-based data. Background Data, especially environmental data,...

Dave Kilbey Nov 15 2021

Top 9 reasons that you should be using apps for data collection

Think that apps are beyond your reach financially as a business, or too complicated to consider? Think again! With cloud-based...