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The new Global Biodiversity Framework the good, the bad and the narratives

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In December 2022, the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity enshrined the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). This policy instrument will structure all the global intergovernmental action on biodiversity during the next ten years. It is thus bound to have massive influence on what will be done (or not) in this field. I will […]

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Is livestock grazing essential to mitigating climate change?

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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?

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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)).

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The search for a healthy environment

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It has long been recognised that the environments in which we live have an enormous influence on our physical and mental health. Equally, it has become clear to all in recent years that human activities can have profoundly damaging impacts of natural ecosystems and the biodiversity they support.

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