Biodiversity & societyPublications

The potential contribution of revenue from Biodiversity Net Gain offsets towards nature recovery ambitions in Oxfordshire

There is a major funding gap for delivering the UK’s nature recovery ambitions, including meeting the national and international ‘30×30’ target (30% of land protected and managed for nature by ...

Best Practices for Monitoring Biodiversity

This workshop report summarises the fifth HERO workshop, on the 24th of March 2022, which focused on monitoring and evaluating biodiversity restoration. It was attended by 34 participants (15 in-person ...

Urban grassland and verge guidelines

Why do we need to change the way we manage urban grass? Although uniformly short grass used to be seen as a sign of good management, people now are becoming more ...

Mapping Ongoing Nature Restoration Activities in Oxfordshire

HERO workshops 2 and 3 in late 2021 identified a need to collect data on where existing nature recovery activities are already taking place in Oxfordshire, so that we know ...

Ethical dilemma: Should we get rid of mosquitoes? – Talya Hackett

Mosquitoes are responsible for more human deaths every year than any other animal, but very few of the 3,500 mosquito species actually transmit deadly diseases to humans. Scientists have been ...

What is Nature Positive? Listen to this podcast to find out

What does #COP15 buzzword ‘nature positive’ mean? A historic deal has been struck at the UN’s biodiversity conference, Cop15, which will set a course for nature recovery from now until 2050, ...

Urban Meadow and Verge Guidelines Poster

This is the poster arising from the 6th HERO workshop. Held in May 2022, and led by Alison smith and Cecilia Dahlsjö, the purpose of the workshop was to consider ...

Urban grassland management

This is the report arising from the 6th HERO workshop. Held in May 2022, and led by Alison smith and Cecilia Dahlsjö, the purpose of the workshop was to consider ...

Building bridges: engaging the environmental social sciences and humanities

Social and environmental challenges are deeply interwoven. Responding to overlapping concerns about climate change, biodiversity loss and inequality is not merely a scientific or technical enterprise, but also a deeply ...