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Oxford Nature Conversations Project Citizens’ Jury on People & Nature

In February 2025, Oxford Nature Conversations brought together 15 residents to collaboratively envision a future where both people and nature can thrive in Oxford. Over the course of four deliberative ...

Our HERO work featured in a short film out now!

In this video, we dive into the innovative work happening at The University of Oxford to support nature recovery and ecosystem restoration in Oxfordshire. Learn how the HERO (Healthy Ecosystem Restoration ...

From Greening to Wellbeing

Researcher Wendee Zhang presented her research at a recent Healthy Ecosystems Restoration in Oxfordshire (HERO) meeting this week, she discusses spatial and social-economic disparities in school outdoor greenness and the ...

Oxfordshire’s greenspace-deprived neighbourhoods

Lead author: Martha Crockatt Contributors: Matt Witney (Oxfordshire Local Nature Partnership), Alison Smith (University of Oxford), Rosie Rowe (Oxfordshire County Council), Mark Hirons (University of Oxford),  Constance McDermott (University of Oxford), ...

Parish Nature Recovery Survey Report

Executive summary Oxfordshire Treescape Project have been delivering Treescape Opportunity Reports to parish groups since October 2021. Since then the range of resources offered and our ways of working have developed. ...

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 ...