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What is Biodiversity Net Gain?

Nat Duffus and Sophus zu Ermgassen explain. On February 12th, England’s ambitious new environmental policy, Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) went live. Underpinned by the Environment Act, this policy lays out the ...

Nature-based Solutions and their socioeconomic benefits in Peru

Within the framework of the project “Positioning the Evidence of the Potential of Nature-based Solutions for Economic Recovery,” led by our partner in Peru, The Mountain Institute, a report on ...

The biosphere cannot save us on its own – a response to COP28

From seagrass to rainforests, natural ecosystems have enormous potential to fight climate change. But the capabilities of the biosphere are being stretched to the limit. “The COP28 final statement emphasised that ...

NATURE’S CRITICAL ROLE IN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

A new report from the UN Environment Programme, UNOPS and the University of Oxford highlights the contributions of nature-based infrastructure solutions to sustainable development, climate action and biodiversity. According to the ...

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 ...