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Businesses need ambitious, evidence-based strategies to align with Nature Positive goals

16 August 2024

The private sector is facing increasing pressure to align with global goals to halt and reverse the loss of nature – to move beyond just mitigating any damages caused by their operations and supply chains, towards contributing positively to nature recovery on a societal scale (i.e., ‘Nature Positive’). Transformative change is needed to realise this. […]

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New paper finds forest restoration can boost people, nature and climate simultaneously

13 August 2024

Optimizing restoration: A holistic spatial approach to deliver Nature’s Contributions to People with minimal tradeoffs and maximal equity. Restoring forests is often seen in terms of “trade-offs” – meaning it often focuses on a specific goal such as capturing carbon, nurturing nature or supporting human livelihoods. The new study, led by a former DPhil student at […]

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Risks and Opportunities of using LCA-based approaches for Biodiversity Footprinting

13 August 2024

This article, written by Thomas White and Talitha Bromwich, is a summary of a preprint available at Open Science Framework As businesses start on their nature positive journey, a range of tools and approaches are emerging to help assess risks and impacts on biodiversity. Sustainability frameworks like the CSRD and TNFD ask companies to take […]

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New publication: The political ecology of cocoa agroforestry and implications for equitable land use in rural Ghana.

12 August 2024

The relevance of cocoa agroforestry is widely discussed in debates on sustainability transition in cocoa, especially in the context of ending hunger and poverty among cocoa farmers. Whereas this has led to multiple cocoa agroforestry investments by NGOs, governments, and cocoa and chocolate companies in West and Central Africa, a notable gap exists in the […]

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New Podcast with EJ Milner-Gulland

12 August 2024

Our new Podcast with EJ Milner-Gulland is out now, join us to hear her speaking about social justice, financing biodiversity, the challenges of complexity in conservation, and EJ’s optimism for the future of biodiversity. Listen to the entire Podcast here   Here’s a preview  

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VACANCY: Geospatial Researcher

2 August 2024

Based at the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery, Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment (SoGE), South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering world leading research in the field of nature recovery. The role allows for supervised development of research ideas involving […]

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A surprising new climate benefit is found in tree bark

24 July 2024

Professor Yadvinder Malhi, Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery, is among an international team of colleagues who have found tree bark surfaces play an important role in removing methane gas from the atmosphere.

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Farmer cluster brings future vision of the Cotswolds under nature recovery to life with professional illustrator

8 July 2024

To achieve nature recovery at scale, we must first imagine it. Picturing the future is a crucial step toward enabling change. In collaboration with the North East Cotswolds Farmer Cluster, researchers from the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery conducted a workshop to discuss and deliberate visions for the future of the Cotswolds. The North East […]

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