Events

Pause during the fast-paced day and enhance your wellbeing by connecting with the natural world in the University College grounds. The monthly, lunchtime sessions will include three pathways to nature connection: 🌱 Noticing Nature ...

In this lively talk, Tom Oliver argues that our current fixes for the environmental crisis are often ineffective and even make things worse. Genuine solutions need to go beyond economic and technological ...

Join us for the Good Natured Conservation Optimism Short Film Festival, an evening of inspiring and empowering stories from across the natural world. Conservation Optimism presents an evening of inspiring and empowering stories ...

There is a global biodiversity funding gap, and rapid efforts to mobilise private funding to fill this gap. Attempts to commodify biodiversity to create markets and harness return-seeking investment into conservation have ...

There is general scientific agreement on the need for transformative change in order to address the systemic poly-crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and growing inequalities globally. However, what this transformative change ...

Dr. Nicola Ranger, University of Oxford Abstract and bio: TBC The Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and Biodiversity Network are interested in promoting a wide variety of views and opinions on nature recovery from ...

Achieving pressing climate and biodiversity goals demands more than just technological and scientific innovation – it requires deep social, cultural, and political change. However, environmental challenges are often framed as technological and ...

After almost fifty years as a nature conservation practitioner in Malaysia, I see little need for further studies or technical data. Other than the baleful influence of governmental bureaucracy, “The problem is ...

Dr. Joe Roman, University of Vermont. If forests are the lungs of the planet, then animals are its arteries, transporting nutrients across vast distances and from the deep sea to the ocean surface. ...

Professor Charles Foster. University of Oxford Abstract Swifts inhabit the air as few other organisms do. This talk is an account of an attempt by an earthbound man to follow them there: on their ...