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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Early outcomes of England’s new biodiversity offset market
4 July 2025Our new paper from Oxford Uni’s Biodiversity Net Gain team out now, led by BNG superstar Natalie Duffus. Natalie conducts the first academic analysis of what’s actually happening in the off-site BNG market. Natalie’s painstakingly assembled all of the available info on the off-site register, manually creating shapefiles from the drawn maps on the BNG […]
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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