Past Events

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

Sandra Diaz

Friday, 17th March 2023, 5:30pm - Wednesday, 14th June 2023, 6:30pm

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?

George Monbiot and Allan Savory, chaired by EJ. Milner-Gulland

Tuesday, 11th July 2023, 5:00pm - 6:30pm

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

Dr Rob Salguero-Gómez

Friday, 9th June 2023, 4:15pm - 5:15pm

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

Chris Thorogood, Chris Thorogood

Friday, 5th May 2023, 4:15pm - 5:15pm

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

Emma Marris

Friday, 12th May 2023, 4:15pm - 5:15pm

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.

Tim Blackburn

Friday, 19th May 2023, 4:15pm - 5:15pm

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.