​The Biodiversity Challenge Awards 2025 are officially open for entries!
Tell us how you are making space for nature in the built environment. We want to hear from you!
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The Biodiversity Challenge Awards encourage the construction industry to ‘go BIG for nature’ by putting biodiversity at the centre of projects to deliver beyond normal business practice and compliance with applicable legislation such as BNG in England.
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These awards focus on the long-term improvement of biodiversity and highlight projects that implement nature-based solutions and their ongoing success through monitoring and maintenance. By promoting collaboration across industries and communities, we celebrate the people and projects that integrate biodiversity into the built environment, creating spaces where both nature and people can thrive.
​​Before you submit your entry, make sure to check out our Awards Guidance and Judging Criteria.
This document contains all of the information you need to know to ensure your submission has the best chance of success!
“It's a genuine thrill to receive this award amongst such esteemed and impressive candidates. I'm going to keep spreading the word of nature recovery, as I passionately believe that education and engagement (good and bad!) is key.”
Joe Dance, Regional Ecology Director, Tyler Grange
Biodiversity Champion 2024 Established Professional
Whether it’s a biodiversity intervention  where space is limited, or which is supporting nature recovery in existing low biodiversity value greenspaces or along infrastructure assets, or it’s biodiversity professionals who are championing the multiple benefits these interventions can bring, we want to hear about them!​​
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Award Categories:
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Placemaking for Nature Award: Single Building
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Placemaking for Nature Award: Multi-property
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Placemaking for Nature Award: Mixed Land Use and Ownership
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Biodiversity Feature Award: Nature Recovery
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Biodiversity Feature Award: Coastal Eco-engineering
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Biodiversity Feature Award: Infrastructure Networks
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Biodiversity Feature Award: Water Management
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Innovation for Nature Award
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Biodiversity Champion Award: Early Career Professional
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Biodiversity Champion Award: Established Professional​
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Aims of the Awards
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Recognise biodiversity projects that go beyond normal business practice and compliance with applicable legislation – this is the primary criterion for the awards. Biodiversity projects that go further than the statutory requirements assigned to a project – eg planning, BNG in England.
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Promote good practice in the delivery of biodiversity projects highlighting key considerations that need to be understood to deliver long-lasting benefits.
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Show that even small interventions where space is limited can play a key role in protecting, enhancing, and restoring biodiversity, particularly when supporting natural connectivity.
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Showcase projects that have overcome the challenges of providing space for nature within constrained urban areas.
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Demonstrate the breadth of infrastructure elements that biodiversity interventions can be made a part of.
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Reinforce the importance of long-term maintenance and funding plans to ensure the longevity of habitat creation and biodiversity benefits.
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Highlight the need to engage a wide range of stakeholders, particularly local communities, for long-term success.
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Highlight positive impacts of nature and place-making on public health and wellbeing.
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Recognise the people making biodiversity restoration happen.
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Join us in London on 24 September 2025 for the Awards Ceremony, where we’ll celebrate inspiring projects and the people going BIG for biodiversity. Registration will open soon (ticketed event)
Join the conversation! Follow the latest on the awards on LinkedIn using the hashtag
#BiodiversityChallengeAwards #BiodiversityChampions.