Research stories

The great significance of observing nature in your back garden

Yadvinder Malhi shares his rediscovery of nature at the local level Like many, I have found solace and refuge in local nature over this year of pandemic and lockdown. ...

IUCN’s New “Green Status of Species” Measures Impact of Conservation Action

From California condors to East Asian mangroves, IUCN’s New “Green Status of Species” Measures Impact of Conservation Action New research led by the Department of Zoology’s Dr Molly Grace, published ...

Environmental Change Institute (ECI) Administrator to support the Oxfordshire Treescapes Project

Contractual details: 40{4136d53bac2007e4117f1d8828c187063ea0a85f13bd7ca9434591c56c4e6ea2} FTE Term: 12 weeks in first instance, possibility of extension Salary: £12 – £15 an hour Location: Oxfordshire (other locations can be considered) Background Healthy Ecosystem Restoration Oxfordshire (HERO) is ...

On COVID-19, and rebalancing our relationship with nature: what have we learned one year on?

Story by Hollie Booth The Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science (ICCS), based at Oxford’s Department of Zoology, have spent the past 15 months looking at how post-pandemic recovery plans ...

What are the drivers of the illegal wildlife trade in jaguars in Boliva?

I was a stranger who looked and sounded foreign, yet before even asking who I was or what I wanted, she welcomed me into her home with a ...

Lessons from Misool: a nature-positive approach to the tourism sector could aid the green recovery

Most business models of the 21st century have a net negative impact on nature. They fundamentally rely on using natural resources – oil for fuel, land for infrastructure, ...