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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 […]

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, […]

Nature Network Coffee Mornings and Seminars – Hilary Term card

22nd Jan – Brigid Hains and Richard Fisher Science communication that makes sense. In this session, two experienced editors from the digital magazine Aeon will share advice and insights on how to develop, pitch and write long-form science essays for a general, global audience. Aeon’s mission is to explore and communicate knowledge that helps us make […]

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Wild or manicured? Why we disagree about messy natures

Current aspirations for nature recovery to address biodiversity loss and climate change involve changing what landscapes look like What is considered neat or messy impacts on action and policy changes Nature recovery activities are highly politicised and resisted Publicised movements for messier gardens and environments can help shift public opinion to accepting less orderly environments […]

COP16 Colombia, a newcomer’s reflection

By Yadvinder Malhi In late October 2024, the UN Convention on Biodiversity held its biennial large meeting (the Conference of Parties, or COP). This convention is a sister of the better known one on climate change, both birthed in Rio in 1992, but until the last few years has languished in relative obscurity. This all […]

US election: Trump is threatening to turn back the tide...

Stephen Lezak, University of Oxford and Barbara Haya, University of California, Berkeley The Cuyahoga River, which runs through downtown Cleveland, Ohio, used to catch fire every decade or so. It started in the 1860s, when the river became choked with industrial waste, and the conflagrations continued all the way until the 1960s – the same […]

Why is the Biodiversity Cop seen as the poor relative...

Professor Yadvinder Malhi, is at Cop 16 and commented on why Biodiversity has been slow to get on the agenda. “I think one of the reasons that the climate change convention really took of after Rio in 1992, whereas the biodiversity convention languished, is that it was easier to tell a straightforward story of climate […]

Volunteering opportunities

With so much biodiversity-related research being carried out around the University we thought it might be an idea to host a page on our website where students/researchers who would like to volunteer their time can match with those of you who need some help. We’ll list all the opportunities on this page, as well as […]

How profits from big pharma’s use of genetic information could...

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Authors: Eleanor Jane Milner-Gulland, Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity, University of Oxford. Dale Squires, Adjunct Professor of Economics, School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego. Hollie Booth, Strategic Director at The Biodiversity Consultancy, and Postdoctoral […]

Biodiversity Network Coffee Mornings – Michaelmas Term

Thursdays from 10.30 for coffee and pastries, and from 11am an informal biodiversity-related talk and discussion Seminar rooms 1 and 2. Oxford Martin School. December 5th Would YOU like to give an informal presentation this week? December 12th Anant Jani Nature connection with CARE: Countryside Access, Recreation, and Environmental Stewardship. There is a […]

Serious play for serious researchers

Heads are bent forward intently over tables and there is an air of concentration around the room as workshop participants attend to their assigned task, the only sound that satisfying “click” as the small plastic Lego bricks are pressed together. This is the scene at the start of a Lego Serious Play workshop held on […]

Watch our Nature Seminars Series of lectures on line now!

If you’ve missed any of our Nature Seminar Series of Friday lectures you can catch them now on our Youtube channel here. You’ll find a wonderful range of topics from rewilding to human health and wellbeing, and with over 50 lectures and debates on there you’ll be sure to learn something new. Our Seminar Series […]

A surprising new climate benefit is found in tree bark

They’re well known for their carbon storing properties but now scientists have discovered that trees have an additional climate benefit, in their bark. Professor Yadvinder Malhi, Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery, is among an international team of colleagues who have found tree bark surfaces play an important role in removing methane gas […]

The UK’s nature restoration plans have some big holes –...

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Authors: Eleanor Jane Milner-Gulland, Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity, University of Oxford, Nathalie Pettorelli Professor, Conservation Biology, Zoological Society of London Have you heard anything about nature as a political priority in the upcoming UK general election? We […]

Statement from UK scientists on nature as an election priority

We are now in the run-up to a General Election, but nature recovery is not currently a major priority for any party, despite its loss being a major risk to the wellbeing and prosperity of our nation, and despite it being a high priority for the UK public. Additionally, current nature policy is focused on […]