Our outputs are categorised by theme, type and whether the output has been funded and supported by the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery or is an associated output produced by centre members/affiliates and is relevant to the goals of the centre but not funded by it.
Nature Seminar Series. The Jewel Box: How moths illuminate nature’s hidden rules – Tim Blackburn
Every morning, ecologist Tim Blackburn is inspired by the diversity contained within the moth trap he runs on the roof of his London flat. Beautiful, ineffably mysterious organisms, these moths offer a glimpse into a larger order, one that extends beyond individual species, beyond lepidoptera or insects, and into a hidden landscape. Just as Michael […]
Nature Seminar Series. The search for a healthy environment – Michael Depledge
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. With the medical sciences tending to focus […]
Nature Seminar Series. Phantom credits why rainforests offsets are not working – Patrick Greenfield
In January 2023, a joint investigation by the Guardian, Die Zeit and Source Material found that the forest carbon offsets approved by the world’s leading certifier and used by major corporations for climate claims are largely worthless. Patrick Greenfield, one of the reporters on the investigation, will detail the story of their investigation and discuss […]
Nature Seminar Series. Rewilding, we can’t live without it – Charlie Burrell
Charlie is the inspiration behind Knepp Wildland, a 3,500 acre estate in West Sussex and the largest rewilding project in lowland Britain. Switching to ‘process-led’ conservation, using free-roaming herds of grazing animals, Knepp is now a hotspot for numerous endangered species like turtle-doves, nightingales and purple emperor butterflies and has become a leading light in […]
Nature Seminar Series. Overcoming our societal addiction to growth to build a sustainable wellbeing future- Robert Costanza
Our global society is hopelessly addicted to a particular vision of the world and a future that has become both unsustainable and undesirable. In this lecture Robert Costanza spoke about his new book, Addicted to Growth, which frames our current predicament as a societal addiction to a ‘growth at all costs’ economic paradigm. While economic […]
Nature Seminar Series. Nature Positive – fact or fiction? Joe Bull, University of Oxford
Biodiversity loss is one of the great global challenges of our time. If we are ever to address and ultimately reverse biodiversity loss, we must face the difficult truth that amongst its most substantial drivers are consumption and trade. As such, to arrest declines in biodiversity, we may all have to change the way we […]
