What is Nature Recovery?

22nd July 2025

There is a plethora of terms to describe this new agenda, including restoration, nature-positive actions and rewilding. Whilst all these terms have their merits, we argue that nature recovery is a particularly salient and needed term that captures this ambitious, multiscale and interdisciplinary vision.

Report

Our response to Defra’s consultation on improving the implementation of Biodiversity Net Gain for minor, medium and brownfield development

21st July 2025

We raise concerns about the effect that the proposed changes will have on the demand for units on the off-site BNG market, based on research into the outcomes of the off-site market, & highlight the potential for worsening ecological outcomes from the changes proposed to the Small Sites Metric.

Blog

Acoustic monitoring fieldwork in the Scottish Highlands

21st July 2025

Can passive acoustic monitoring help save remnant pinewood forests?

Scientific Paper

NEW PAPER: Ten facts from critical and interpretive social sciences for environmental research

18th July 2025

Efforts to mainstream the social sciences in environmental research are missing the diversity of social science scholarship

Nature Series Seminar

Rethinking Human–Nature Relations Through Indigenous Epistemologies.

17th July 2025

What can conservation learn from Indigenous knowledge systems? In this lecture, Rethinking Human–Nature Relations Through Indigenous Epistemologies, we explore how Indigenous worldviews challenge dominant models of conservation, biodiversity management, and nature recovery.