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Oxford’s New Nature Festival Celebrates Biodiversity, Community and Environmental Action.

Oxford’s Nature Festival will bring together researchers, artists, community groups, environmental organisations and families for a week of public events celebrating nature, biodiversity and environmental action across Oxfordshire. Events will run from 21–27 June 2026, culminating in a free, full-day festival at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on Saturday, 27 June.  The Festival is being […]

Exploring the deep sea

Did you know that only 0.001% of the deep ocean has been visually observed, even though it constitutes two-thirds of the planet? DPhil student Sheena Talma features on the Planet Visionaries podcast to talk about the ocean, and her fascinating research.    

Protected Landscape/Seascape in Brazil: What nature is being protected?

How biodiversity markets shape nature recovery

Biodiversity markets are increasingly being used in conservation policy, but we still don’t fully understand how their design shapes who gets involved and what actually happens for nature on the ground. A new open-access article in Environmental Policy and Governance by Mattia Troiano, a researcher at the ECI, and colleagues looks at this question through England’s Biodiversity […]

Conserving biodiversity for people & planet. Halting and reversing nature...

Nature underpins all human wealth and society but is under serious threat, with over a million species threatened with extinction and natural habitats disappearing.  People depend on nature and its services for food, fibre, medicine, and other products, but modern production systems often cause biodiversity loss and are vulnerable to environmental change. Addressing the global […]

Nature by numbers – NEW PODCAST

It was super cool to be on one of my favourite pods, The Eco Chamber, last week to discuss the impacts of recent changes in BNG: https://lnkd.in/daUqqhec. I basically highlighted that the new small sites threshold was lower than government had previously suggested, which Natalie Duffus’s work shows will still pull a substantial chunk of […]

What happens if you try to map an entire country’s...

Alice Stuart, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery explores some of the work being carried out within the CBA Reimagining Nature Finance fellowship to understand financial flows to nature. How much finance is flowing in service of life? This feels like it should be a relatively straightforward question, and an important one, […]

Running in the Rain: Finding Focus at a Writing Retreat...

  I’m running down a stony track in drizzling rain under a grey sky, singing nonsense songs* at the top of my voice because there is not another human being within a mile of me. The odd grouse, sheep or belted Galloway cow are the only potential beings to disturb in this wide, heathy landscape. […]

How to make sure the nature credits you buy are...

Sophus zu Ermgassen, University of Oxford Global leaders have committed to halting and reversing the ongoing degradation of nature within the next few decades. But with tight public budgets, governments around the world are looking towards nature markets as one way to attract more private investment into nature. Nature markets are systems for measuring an […]

Island reptiles face extinction before they are even studied

A new study has revealed that reptiles confined to islands are facing a double jeopardy. Despite being more likely to go extinct than mainland species, they remain largely ignored by researchers compared to their mainland counterparts. Although islands make up less than 7% of the Earth’s surface, they harbour a disproportionate share of the planet’s biodiversity. […]

India’s 60 million street dogs are turning from village scavengers...

Dasarath Deka / shutterstock Nishant Kumar, University of Oxford Growing up in rural India, my grandmother would feed the village dog half a chapati and a bowl of milk each afternoon, surely insufficient for its needs. The dog survived by scavenging from nearby homes. Years later, living in Delhi, I encountered street dogs refusing biscuits, […]

Friday Nature Seminar Series Term Card

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