Past events

Listening to the Earth: An Afternoon with Indigenous Wisdom Keepers from Brazil

Event ended: 08 July 2025

The Nest, Saïd Business School – Park End Street & Online In early July, a group of Indigenous Elders from Brazil are visiting Oxford for a few days during a longer trip to the UK. During their stay, the Skoll Centre alongside Global Canopy, Ostara, Smith School, Saïd Business School and the Nature-Based Solutions Initiative […]

Symposium: Nature, Farming and Food: How we value our land

Event ended: 20 June 2025

Join us for Nature, Farming & Food, our symposium in collaboration with TABLE and the British Ecological Society

Reimagining our Relationship with Nature

Event ended: 30 April 2025

Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery researcher, Tanaya Nair will be taking part in a discussion between an artist, a scientist and a climate activist to explore our relationship with nature. Together, they’ll delve into questions like how we can create new, healthier ways of relating to non-human species. We’re part of the natural world. This […]

From Balconies to Alleys: How to Make Our Towns and Cities Greener?

Event ended: 30 April 2025

We’re excited to be supporting this event in partnership with The Oxford University Museum of Natural History Join Jason Williams, aka The Cloud Gardener, for an inspiring evening at Oxford’s Natural History Museum as he shares insights from his recent Churchill Fellowship research. Traveling across Europe and Asia, Jason explored how urban greenspaces—from small balconies […]

Opportunities and challenges of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

Event ended: 25 September 2024

A discussion with David Cooper – Convention on Biological Diversity. Deputy Executive Secretary. David played a leadership role in finalising the Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework at COP-15 in Montreal, and will once again be Secretary of the COP. After a short talk about the prospects and priorities for COP16, which takes place in Cali, […]

Rolling out into the world : An ‘Art x science’ workshop

Event ended: 09 July 2024

Producing conventional knowledge in the academic sense does not automatically inspire action or change. Art, as a revolutionary connection tool, can unite science and society to create change because it articulates these diverse types of knowledge visually, immersively and deliberately. Eco-art or ecological art, is often described as experimental exploratory inquiries that drive change rather […]

The ecology and conservation of atolls

Event ended: 28 June 2024

Over one third of Indo-Pacific islands are atolls. Nevertheless, atolls remain largely unrecognised as a distinct ecosystem type, beyond being recognised for their smallness and perceived depauperate floras and faunas. However, atolls are systems with a remarkable and unique biogeography and ecology that transcend classic boundary thinking of marine, freshwater, and terrestrial realms. Recognising atolls […]

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The Return of the Mermaid: Revitilizing the Lerma Wetlands in the highlands of Central Mexico with the guidance of the Mother of the Waters

Event ended: 21 June 2024

Abstract The Lerma Wetlands in the highlands of Central Mexico have been home to Otomian peoples for at least ten thousand years. In their belief system, the rich biodiversity in the sweet water wetlands and the valley was the fruit of the generosity of Creation Mother, the Tlanchana, who would show in her favorite springs, […]

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The role of secondary forests in mitigating fragmentation-related extinctions

Event ended: 14 June 2024

Abstract: Secondary forests are the predominant type of forest cover across the tropics. They provide myriad services and natural products to human populations worldwide and key habitat for countless forest-dwelling species. Although some fragmentation-related extinctions can be averted by forest regeneration, the role of second growth in biodiversity conservation remains controversial. Central to the debate […]

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In praise of the phenotype: Stock-taking and perspectives in plant functional trait ecology

Event ended: 07 June 2024

The plant functional trait diversity research programme has expanded dramatically in the past two decades, as a result of the combination of a long-standing interest in fundamental syndromes of adaptive specialization behind the vast variety of form and function observed in nature on the one hand, and the pressing need to inform biodiversity policy in […]

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