Ecology

Tired of juggling projects, late-night surveys, and endless data entry? Coreo simplifies ecological data collection so you can maximise your impact.

How Coreo can help:

With its wide range of features focused on ecologists, Coreo will support you to streamline your data collection and give you more time to do the tasks that really matter.

Coreo comes with a library of pre-built survey templates including the UKHab Survey. Designed by co-authors of the UK Habitat Classification, eCountability, the App makes habitat surveying simple and accurate.

Get surveying in seconds, with Coreo’s Template Gallery

Pre-built templates include protected species surveys, UKHab survey, breeding bird and wintering bird and INNS survey
Customise the surveys to your particular project or use them immediately
Update your survey anytime you need to. Updates are pushed dynamically to everyone using your survey.

Laptop screen showing protected species templates in Coreo

Capture locations

Record location data quickly and accurately using the GPS on your device.
Whether its point data, lines or polygons, you can record them with ease.
If you’ve already got locations you wish to use, import them into Coreo and reference them in your forms.

Improve data quality

Take control your datas’ quality with data validation.

Mandatory fields, drop-downs, multi-select lists and constrained numeric ranges all help reduce input errors.
And because your data is digital from the start transcription errors will be a thing of the past.
Custom reference guides provide you with in-field help when you need it.
Calculated fields and conditional questions make complex surveys super streamlined meaning that you can focus on what’s going on in the field rather than fighting with long paper forms.

3 phone screenshots showing a Great Crested Newt survey

Collaborate

Your surveys and/or data can be kept private. Or, you can set things up so that your whole team can collaborate.

You decide who gets access to which projects (and at what level)
You can set permissions for individual users to enable certain people to build new surveys and manage both the team and the data.
If you have access to our citizen science module, you can share your project with as many people as you like.

Manage your data

Easily manage all of your submitted data in Coreo’s Record Explorer module.

Quickly review and edit your records.
Set up a workflow to suit your needs. Once you’ve quality checked your data, tag your records.
Easily export your data in csv, GeoJSON or Shapefile format.

What our customers say about Coreo

“It used to take an assistant ecologist a full day to transcribe six breeding bird surveys.

With Coreo this takes me just 30 minutes!”

Owen Crawshaw

Principal Ecologist

The Ecology Co-op

“Coreo has proved to be exactly the platform we need – easy to use, simple to set up and solves all of the major issues we had previously.

Coreo’s holistic approach to data collection means we now have one system where we can handle all of our data collection requirements.”

Georgina Timmis

Principal Ecologist

ECOSA

“We have been using Coreo for our species surveying work at Knepp for a few months now and have found it has massively increased our ability to gather and process data, all of which is contributing to furthering our understanding of the many positive impacts of the rewilding of the landscape here.”

Matt Phelps

Lead Ecologist & Science Communicator

Knepp

Coreo has definitely helped me with my projects. It has saved me lots of time and countless sheets of paper!

Digby Hayden

The Ecology Partnership

The UKHab & BNG Platform

Developed in partnership with the authors of UKHab and powered by Coreo, the UKHab & BNG Platform simplifies habitat surveys and automates BNG calculations. Collect accurate data in the field with our user-friendly app, then seamlessly generate reports and analyse results back in the office.

Find out more

Relevant Case Studies

A woman with a phone pointing at a particular area of grassland

How Coreo is helping The Species Recovery Trust to save Britain’s most endangered species

Coreo making life easier for conservation officers and volunteers at the SRT

How The Ecology Co-Op Cut their UKHab & BNG reporting time by half

How the Ecology Co-op made the transition from paper to a fully digital workflow

A woman looking closely at what she has found underneath the trees in a wood

Streamlining BNG: A Digital Solution for Nattergal’s Rewilding Project

Discover how Coreo’s UKHab and BNG Platform is streamlining Nattergal’s entire survey workflow

Conserving Curlews in Nidderdale

Coreo is transforming survey workflow on the Darley Beck Curlew Project in the Nidderdale National Landscape

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Relevant Blog Posts

Image showing a satellite map of a development and a UKHab survey in Coreo next to the logos representing the Coreo and Gentian partnership

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

A collection of phones showing different ecological apps including the UKHab survey and citizen science apps

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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