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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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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VACANCY: Reverse Gaze Research Assistant Position
7 July 2025We are seeking a Research Assistant to help co-develop the “Reverse Gaze” as a new research stream within the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery (LCNR). The Reverse Gaze aims to flip the gaze of global conservation from a dominant reliance on global standardization and the use of surveillance technologies (remote sensing, AI, digital tech) as mechanisms to control local actors, to the ground-up re-purposing of tools and technologies that recognize, serve, protect and empower place-based and community-driven nature recovery.
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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