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Is livestock grazing essential to mitigating climate change?

George Monbiot and Allan Savory, chaired by EJ. Milner-Gulland

Tuesday, 11th July 2023, 5:00pm - 6:30pm

George Monbiot and Allan Savory will be taking part in a timely debate on 11th July supported by the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery. Hosted by the Museum of Natural History in Oxford.

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Quantifying and predicting resilience from individuals, to populations, to whole communities

Dr Rob Salguero-Gómez

Friday, 9th June 2023, 4:15pm - 5:15pm

Understanding and predicting the responses to natural systems to disturbances has been a fundamental goal of Ecology since its birth as a science.

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The Art of Plant Conservation

Chris Thorogood, Chris Thorogood

Friday, 5th May 2023, 4:15pm - 5:15pm

Chris Thorogood is a botanist and artist who has travelled the world in pursuit of plants. In this talk, Chris will take us on some of his hair-raising, global adventures over clifftops, up erupting volcanoes, through typhoons, and out into the very heart of the world’s vast, green wilderness, all for the love of plants.

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What is good about “nature”: locating value in the nonhuman world

Emma Marris

Friday, 12th May 2023, 4:15pm - 5:15pm

There is a long list of things people value about the natural world: diversity, complexity, integrity, naturalness, wildness, native species, and of the sentient and even non-sentient individuals that make up an ecosystem. Often, these values conflict. How are we to proceed?

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The Jewel Box: How moths illuminate nature’s hidden rules.

Tim Blackburn

Friday, 19th May 2023, 4:15pm - 5:15pm

In THE JEWEL BOX, Tim reflects on what he has learned in the last thirty years of work as a scientist studying ecosystems and demonstrates how the contents of one small box can illuminate the workings of all nature.

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Can Biodiversity Net Gain help us reach England’s biodiversity goals?

Sophus zu Ermgassen, Ecological Economist, University of Oxford. Prue Addison, Conservation Strategy Director, Berks, Bucks, & Oxon Wildlife Trust. Natalie Duffus, researcher, University of Oxford. Joseph Bull, Associate Professor in Climate Change Biology, University of Oxford, Natalie Duffus, Sophus zu Ermgassen

Tuesday, 9th May 2023, 12:00pm - 1:30pm

At the end of 2023 new legislation will be enacted making it mandatory for nearly every new development in England to leave nature in a better state than before (so it achieves a mandatory “Biodiversity Net Gain” (BNG)).