Hydroscape is a wildlife intelligence and biodiversity monitoring platform. You use the app to record what you see on the water — fish, birds, mammals, plants, water quality, cormorants — and the platform turns those records into something useful for fisheries, clubs, rivers trusts, regulators, and you.
Hydroscape was built by fishery managers with decades of hands-on experience in water management, biodiversity, habitat improvement, and freshwater ecology. We watched the same problems recur at club after club, water after water — observations being made every day, nothing being written down, nothing feeding into the decisions that affected those waters. So we built the platform we wished had existed twenty years ago.
At the public level — which is what this help centre covers — Hydroscape gives you three main tools:
- Submit sightings of any species (birds, mammals, fish, invertebrates, plants, trees, fungi) with photos and GPS
- Report water quality at any UK river, lake, stream, or beach
- Log cormorant activity with the structured tools used by clubs building A06 licence evidence
Everything you submit is GPS-tagged, photo-verified, and joins a growing national dataset.
- Anyone who spends time on UK waters — anglers, walkers, birdwatchers, naturalists, kayakers, volunteers
- Fishery managers, club bailiffs, and water keepers — the people who see most and have historically had nowhere to put it
- Conservation volunteers and rivers trust surveyors — the mobile forms are faster than most recording apps they've tried
- Fishery clubs and syndicates — who can adopt the platform at club level to get a management dashboard
You don't need to be an expert. You don't need any training. If you saw something, you can record it.
It isn't a replacement for professional science. It isn't a substitute for the Environment Agency or Natural England. It isn't a social network. It's a recording tool and an evidence platform, and the only thing it does well is capture what you see in a form that can be used.