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Clwyd Probert

Clwyd Probert is the founder and editor of Pixcellence. He spent more than a decade as a professional photographer; in 2013 his studio photographed Hope 4 Apes at the Savoy, the Ape Alliance gala hosted by Sir David Attenborough and Brian May with Ian Redmond OBE, organised with charities including the Born Free Foundation. He continues to work with wildlife charities. Pixcellence is his effort to make UK biodiversity and climate evidence clear, sourced and accessible, illustrated in the tradition of Victorian natural history art.

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Watercolour of an English landscape split in two: ancient oak woodland with a roe deer, fox and songbirds on one side, and freshly cleared ground with tree stumps on the other.

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Habitat Destruction: Causes, Effects and How to Stop It

By Clwyd Probert
on November 01, 2026

Habitat destruction is the loss of a natural habitat through human activity, to the point where it can no longer support the species that lived there. It is the leading driver of biodiversity loss on ...

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Watercolour contrasting a short mown grass verge beside a new estate road with a species-rich hay meadow of yellow rattle, buttercup and knapweed behind a wooden fence, with a meadow brown butterfly and a mature oak.

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The Statutory Biodiversity Metric Explained: Strengths, Criticisms and Evidence (2026)

By Clwyd Probert
on October 29, 2026

The statutory biodiversity metric is the Defra tool that measures biodiversity value for biodiversity net gain (BNG) in England. It turns habitats into "biodiversity units" by scoring their area, ...

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Watercolour of a new housing estate edge beside a restored wildflower meadow and pond, with a badger in the foreground, a goldfinch on a thistle and a swallow overhead.

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BNG Regulations 2026: The Law, Exemptions and Compliance in England

By Clwyd Probert
on October 29, 2026

Biodiversity net gain (BNG) is required by Schedule 7A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, inserted by Schedule 14 of the Environment Act 2021. Unless exempt, every planning permission in ...

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Watercolour of a former arable field restored as a wet floodplain meadow with shallow scrapes, ragged robin and young trees, and two lapwings, one in display flight.

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Biodiversity Net Gain Defined: BNG in Plain English (2026)

By Clwyd Probert
on October 29, 2026

Biodiversity net gain (BNG) means leaving wildlife habitat in a measurably better state than it was before a development. In England it is the law: most new development must deliver at least a 10% ...

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Watercolour of a new English village edge at dusk, with a flower-rich meadow, young hedgerow and wildlife pond in the foreground and a barn owl hunting low over the grass.

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Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) Explained: The 2026 Guide for England

By Clwyd Probert
on October 29, 2026

Biodiversity net gain (BNG) is a legal requirement in England that most new development must leave wildlife habitat at least 10% better than it was before, measured in "biodiversity units" and ...

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Watercolour of a species-rich English meadow with orchids, knapweed and a common blue butterfly, a skylark on a fence post and a survey quadrat in the grass, with new village houses beyond a hedgerow.

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BNG Metric Explained: How Biodiversity Net Gain Is Calculated (2026 Update)

By Clwyd Probert
on October 29, 2026

The BNG metric, officially the statutory biodiversity metric, is the Defra tool used in England to measure a site's biodiversity value in "biodiversity units" before and after development, to show ...

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Watercolour of an English farm in high summer: a flower-rich field margin with grey partridges beside ripening wheat, a skylark rising, and a hawthorn hedgerow with an oak beyond.

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Agricultural Biodiversity: What It Is, Why It Matters and How UK Farms Can Restore It

By Clwyd Probert
on October 28, 2026

Agricultural biodiversity, also called agrobiodiversity, is the variety of life that food and farming depend on: the crops and livestock we raise and their wild relatives, plus the pollinators, soil ...

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Vast Arctic tundra landscape with low-growing vegetation, scattered wildflowers, distant snow-capped mountains and a pale expansive sky

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Tundra Ecosystem: Definition, Climate, Plants, Animals and the UK's Arctic Habitat

By Clwyd Probert
on October 28, 2026

A tundra ecosystem is a cold, treeless biome where only low-growing plants such as mosses, lichens, sedges and dwarf shrubs can survive, because winters are long and dark, the growing season lasts ...

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Watercolour of an English lowland landscape: oak woodland edge, flower-rich meadow with a brown hare, a flowering hawthorn hedgerow and a chalk stream with a kingfisher on a willow branch.

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What Is Biodiversity? Meaning, Types and UK Examples

By Clwyd Probert
on October 23, 2026

Biodiversity, short for biological diversity, is the variety of all life on Earth: the differences within species, between species and between the ecosystems they form together. It covers everything ...

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Watercolour UK landscape contrasting a thriving biodiverse meadow with butterflies and otters against a degraded monoculture field — illustrating the scale of UK biodiversity loss.

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What Is Biodiversity Loss? Meaning, UK Evidence and 12 Examples

By Clwyd Probert
on October 07, 2026

Biodiversity loss is the decline in the variety of life — fewer genes within species, fewer species, and fewer healthy ecosystems — whether locally, nationally or worldwide. In the UK it is ...

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