Past events

The research Anne-Caroline Prévot is pursuing with her colleagues and students aims at understanding the interrelationships between experiences of nature, biodiversity conservation and social bonds. She investigates how experiences of nature and ...

  Co-hosted by the UN Environment Programme and the University of Oxford, this session will consider the need for nature-positive universities. An exploration of the university experience in implementing environmental sustainability strategies and ...

Author & journalist Mary Colwell has pushed for a GCSE in Natural History for 10 years. Now It looks as if it’s going to happen, & hopefully teaching will start in September ...

Schools are always keen to have academics come and talk to their students, but if you get the call, what do you talk about and how do you pitch it? We keep ...

The fabric of life on Earth is unravelling, and this decade will be crucial in exacerbating this trajectory or bending it. Professor Sandra Diaz will explore three major factors that have contributed ...

The Natural History Museum has built the first version of an online tool that aims to make it easy for policymakers and researchers to find, understand and explore data on one of ...

Welcome back to the new series of Biodiversity Coffee Seminars! Today we’ll be hearing from colleagues at the Natural History Museum. The NHM is developing a Biodiversity Indicators Portal that will aid policymakers, evidence ...

Recent years have seen a significant step-change in attention to biodiversity as a political priority for governments worldwide. With the United Nations Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework and the UK Environment Bill on ...

The vast majority of extractive and productive activities undergo planning and application processes and are subject to regulation. Despite this, habitat loss and degradation are still the primary causes of global biodiversity ...

When it comes to informing and scrutinizing policy for biodiversity, are we doing enough? In the third seminar of this series, we introduce and respond to critical provocations on the possible future ...