User-facing screening app

Rewilding Opportunity Explorer

This explorer is a core-plus-variants decision aid. Start with the shared shortlist, compare how nature-first, balanced, and low-conflict lenses change the ranking, then adjust the weights yourself to see which candidate cells stay robust and which are objective-specific.

Packaged shortlist1116 cells

Canonical buildcanonical_v6

Preset lenses3 starting points

Weighted components6 live sliders

Selectionhex_0131453

Tradeoff lens

Minimum score

Minimum connectivity

List size

Weight workbench

Adjust the scoring mix

Preset lenses load a starting mix. As soon as you move a slider, the app switches to a live custom lens and re-ranks every packaged cell.

Weights sum to 100%

Showing the packaged shortlist. Mouse wheel zooms, drag pans, click a cell for the explanation panel.

How To Read It

What the main parameters mean

This app is a screening tool. The controls below help compare tradeoff lenses and trim the shortlist, but they do not replace local site checks or detailed feasibility work.

Tradeoff lensPreset lenses are starting mixes of weights. They express different policy priorities, while custom mode lets you rebalance the same component scores yourself.

Minimum scoreThis filter hides weaker candidates under the active lens. Scores are relative screening scores, not probabilities or guaranteed outcomes.

Minimum connectivityConnectivity is an inverse distance score to existing priority habitat. Higher values mean a cell sits nearer to current habitat networks.

List sizeThis only changes how many filtered cells are listed in the right-hand shortlist. It does not change the underlying map or ranking.

Selected cell

hex_0131453

Doncaster

Keeps restoration central while holding space for flood, peat, and land-use tradeoffs.

Score

67.04

Rank #1 in Balanced

Area ratio 1.000

Boundary factor 1.000

Weighted components

Restoration opportunity

96.69

Flood opportunity

58.00

Peat opportunity

76.24

Agricultural opportunity

100.00

Habitat mosaic

0.00

Biodiversity observation score

0.00

Context signals

Connectivity

96.69

Priority habitat share (%)

0.00

Distance to habitat (m)

538.40

Area ratio

1.00

Signal guide

Run profile: canonical_published

Flood source: dedicated_dataset

Peat source: dedicated_dataset

Restoration opportunity: Favors cells that sit near habitat but still have room for recovery, rather than cells already dominated by habitat cover.

Flood opportunity: A screening signal for wetland or floodplain restoration opportunity. Higher values suggest stronger hydrological restoration context.

Peat opportunity: A screening signal for peatland restoration context. Higher values suggest stronger peat-related restoration opportunity.

Agricultural opportunity: A land-use tradeoff signal derived from agricultural land quality. Higher values mean the cell looks less constrained by top-grade farmland.

Habitat mosaic: Rewards mixed habitat contexts rather than either empty cells or cells already fully occupied by priority habitat.

Biodiversity observation score: This observation-based biodiversity indicator combines bird and mammal richness signals, each damped by simple record-coverage controls so sparse recording does not look stronger than it is.

Priority habitat share: Percent of the cell already covered by priority habitat. Useful for understanding whether a candidate is intact habitat, a mosaic, or an adjacency opportunity.

Distance to habitat: Representative-point distance to the nearest priority habitat patch in meters.

Area ratio / boundary factor: How much of a full hex remains after clipping at the analysis boundary. Lower values indicate edge fragments. Boundary adjustment applied to clipped cells so partial edge hexes do not outrank full cells purely by accident.

Filtered shortlist

Top Balanced cells

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