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Impact Report 2025-2026

Global Canopy provides open data, research and guidance to help companies, financial institutions, governments and campaigners address deforestation and nature loss. Its 2025-2026 report describes growing use of ENCORE, Trase and Forest IQ, alongside examples of how partners used its evidence to change sourcing practices and strengthen accountability.

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Global Canopy develops open-access environmental data, research and practical guidance that helps organisations understand their links to deforestation and nature loss. ENCORE maps dependence on nature, Trase traces commodity supply chains, and Forest 500 and Forest IQ assess influential companies and financial institutions. The charity also trains users, works with policymakers and supports campaigners and journalists using its evidence to challenge harmful practices. Custom geography from upload: UK-based, global reach

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 More than 162,000 people used data platforms during the year
Key Metric 2 18,000 registered ENCORE users, up from 12,000 a year earlier
Key Metric 3 Trase tracks 16,000 companies; Forest IQ and Forest IQ Pro cover 3,000 companies

Key Outcomes

  • Trase data supported partner pressure leading Royal Golden Eagle to announce it would cease sourcing from a deforestation-linked mill.
  • Brazil's Federal Public Prosecutor's Office used do Pasto ao Prato data to challenge retailers' sourcing.
  • Trase data underpinned more than 10 campaigns, investigations and legal complaints during the year.

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Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
5,999 active volunteers contributed 776,242 hours in 2025/26
Key Metric 2
137 winter maintenance projects across 45 canals; 109 lock gates replaced
Key Metric 3
101,640 children participated in Explorers/STEM outdoor learning, including 67,896 water-safety participants
Over 80% of the network kept fully open despite drought.
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The Eco-Schools programme reached over 1.4 million pupils, with 2,162 schools awarded the Eco-Schools Green Flag in 2024/25
Key Metric 2
326,000 volunteers pledged to the Great British Spring Clean, picking up 425,626 bags of rubbish, supported by 288 local authorities and parish councils
Key Metric 3
2,227 Green Flag Awards given to parks and green spaces in the UK; 151 beaches given a Blue Flag and/or Seaside Award
98.3% of educators felt the Eco-Schools programme significantly supports young people's development of 'green skills'
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First known breeding success of spoonbills in the Norfolk Broads in around 400 years, recorded at Hickling Broads and Marshes
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Over 60 nature reserves managed across Norfolk, with land owned or managed for wildlife exceeding 5,000 hectares
Key Metric 3
1,500 volunteers helped protect wildlife across the county during the year
New urban nature reserve co-designed with the local community, expanding accessible green space in Norfolk
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61,819 native oysters deployed across UK restoration projects in 2024/25
Key Metric 2
15,064 people participated in the Beachwatch beach clean programme, submitting 1,256 litter surveys — the highest in the programme's 31-year history
Key Metric 3
17,613 young people engaged through in-person or online youth programme sessions
£11.5 billion Ofwat investment package secured for storm overflow cuts in England and Wales following sustained MCS advocacy