Where nature speaks — and data delivers

Our impact:

• Naturland’s “Für mehr Artenvielfalt” funding programme – one of the largest biodiversity initiatives in Germany and Austria, launched in 2023 – currently connects around 950 farms with processing and retail partners and supports 23,000 hectares of land.
• Hula contributes standardised sensor and satellite data to provide a data-based picture of ecosystem vitality within the programme.
• Both partners see the collaboration as a long-term development process to make the value of biodiversity more visible.

Our impact:

• From 2030, certification standards such as GLOBALG.A.P.’s BioDiversity module require a growing share of land for biodiversity, up to 10%. For VI.P, that would amount to around 550 of its 5,500 hectares. The conventional approach would be to take this land out of production entirely: a yield loss of €13.75 to €16.5 million per year.
• Hula provides evidence that the cultivated areas already deliver this impact. The endangered wryneck, a bioindicator for ground-dwelling insects and low chemical use, was recorded on organic land. It was absent from conventional areas using crop protection products.
• These data are becoming the basis for communication with retail partners and certification standards.

Our impact:

• High-quality insights into nocturnal migration patterns
• Reduced curtailment through real-time turbine management
• Legal evidence for species presence supporting project approvals

Our impact:

• Increased asset value through biodiversity
• Prove of returned skylarks to meet legal requirements
• Nature-inclusive management through real-time data

Our impact:

• 49 bird species and more than 6,000 detections were recorded at the example site in Waiblingen. Differences between ecological management zones and heavily sealed areas are clearly measurable.
• Around €42,500 in staff costs are saved per year and site because autonomous data collection replaces internal coordination and preparation.
• Specific measures such as nesting aids, insect hotels, flowering strips and orchard meadows are evaluated for their effectiveness at several international sites.

Our impact:

• Identification and mapping of bird species across the project area
• Enabled an extended bird mapping period
• Supported flexible planning with cost efficient monitoring

Our impact:

• Baselining the state of nature
• Unlocking data-driven decisions to support urban nature hotspots
• Cost-effective biodiversity monitoring for tight budgets

Our impact:

• Detecting landscape change and habitat degradation
• Turning biodiversity gains into financial value for farmers
• Tracking effectiveness of measures through species richness

Our impact:

• Scalable and automated biodiversity monitoring
• Real-time detection for illegal logging
• Unlocking EU funding by demonstrating conservation effectiveness

Our impact:

• Standardised monitoring of existing and new conservation sites
• Forest change, connectivity, biomass, and risk insights
• Evidence-based conservation planning with fire detection

Our impact:

• Collecting and preparing the data manually with a half-time position per site costs an average of around €49,000 per year. Automated monitoring, as used by Ratisbona, eliminates this workload.
• On-site temperature and humidity measurements, rather than general estimates, make it possible to demonstrate the actual cooling and insulation effects of greenery at each site.
• Comprehensive, AI-assisted evidence makes the ecological net gain traceable.

Our impact:

• Only a small part of the 212 hectares has actually been set aside. Hula’s sensors show the ecological impact of the measures on the remaining land. If a comparable impact were achieved solely through complete land set-aside, this would represent a yield loss of around €285,000 per year on the affected land.
• 57 bird species were recorded, with more than 12,700 individual detections in one spring. Activity is 6x higher than on the reference area.
• Continuous monitoring provides fresh evidence on an ongoing basis instead of relying on a single survey.