To achieve this vision we focus our activities around three goals:
1. Understand the societal, biophysical, policy and systemic factors that enable or challenge nature recovery
2. Collaborate with partners in case study landscapes to test and enhance frameworks, technologies, and tools for effective, inclusive, scalable, nature recovery delivery that also provides for society and its wellbeing
3. Establish an inclusive nature recovery community at Oxford, leveraging its intellectual capital and interdisciplinary convening power to address key debates and challenges in the field.
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Testing Eco-Evolutionary Theory: How Tropical Forest Traits Vary With Dryness
21 July 2025By Huanyuan Zhang-Zheng We have seen many global analyses of plant traits. Admittedly, many of them are intriguing and insightful. However, there is a reoccurring issue evident in most global analysis, is that some of the results are merely showing a difference between tundra and tropical forest, or a difference between desert bushes and evergreen […]
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Nature-friendly farming budget swells in UK – but cuts elsewhere make recovery fraught
8 July 2025Nathalie Seddon, University of Oxford Nature in the UK appeared to receive a rare funding boost in the June spending review, with the government setting a spending target of up to £2 billion a year for England’s environmental land management (ELM) scheme by 2028-29. By steering public funds toward farmers who restore hedgerows, soils and […]
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"Our goal is to develop the frameworks, technologies and tools that enable and support the delivery of nature recovery that is effective, durable, scalable, provides for society and wellbeing, and is sustainably and ethically resourced".Professor Yadvinder Malhi, Centre Director