TESS

TESS has designed a decision support system that can make it easy for policy makers to integrate local knowledge into their decision making, while also guiding and encouraging local activities that restore and maintain biodiversity and ecosystem services. Our vision is to enlighten, encourage and empower local communities to support biodiversity restoration across Europe, through an internet system that unifies all available knowledge to guide decisions for the benefit of biodiversity and livelihoods... We remain convinced that environmental information needs to be gathered and used freely by ordinary citizens, within a common EU-wide framework and subject to safeguards about what is sensitive at an individual level. We believe that such an approach will demonstrate that land-managers are not the problem but the solution to conserving and restoring Europe's biodiversity.

Primary location: London United Kingdom