🛰️ Satellites are transforming biodiversity monitoring, but they can't do it alone. A new review highlights the opportunities, the gaps, and why field observations remain essential for tracking nature recovery. @jeaggu.bsky.social @ymalhi.bsky.social

Satellites are transforming biodiversity monitoring for global nature targets, but major gaps remain

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🧵We're delighted to be part of a new project developing a flexible, collaborative evaluation framework for health, nature & place-based interventions in Oxfordshire. The aim? Build evidence with communities—not just about them. 🌿

Developing a Flexible Collaborative Evaluation Framework for Health, Nature and Place-Based Interventions

Co-producing a flexible evaluation framework to help organisations measure and demonstrate the health, social and environmental impacts of nature- and place-based interventions.

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New from @ymalhi.bsky.social in @aeon.co: an exploration of the Nature Relationship Index and why we need a better way to measure the relationship between human prosperity and nature. Read the essay: aeon.co/essays/it-do...

3. Diarise this & the Oxford screening of #TheClimateRestorers: #EcosystemRestoration! thenaturefestival.org/event/the-cl.... Our production site is linked at the bottom left of that page. Our thanks to the terrific team at the Leverhulme Centre for @naturerecovery.bsky.social! @ymalhi.bsky.social

The Climate Restorers: Ecosystem restoration

This changes everything – ecosystem restoration, biochar, social change: everything, everywhere, all at once Nature is so far still the only large-scale game in town for climate restoration. Nature ha...

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Find out what happened when our researcher @ellabrowning.bsky.social, @northwildlife.bsky.social, the Rothbury community, a rap artist & others came together to unlock the secrets of the Rothbury Estate's wildlife and historic landscape. @ecioxford.bsky.social

Monitoring nature sounds with Louis VI on The Rothbury Estate

YouTube video by The Wildlife Trusts

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A few pictures of me last week helping @naturerecovery.bsky.social with the deployment of their Lepisense of @ukceh.bsky.social units at Wytham Forest in Oxford! This system allows for the passive automated monitoring of moths!

Did you miss Dale Squires last week? He gave a great talk on Fair & Equitable Benefit Sharing & the Common Heritage of Humankind in International Treaties for Nature. You can catch it here now. @ecioxford.bsky.social

Fair, Equitable Benefit Sharing & the Common Heritage of Humankind in International Nature Treaties

YouTube video by Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery

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Really glad to see our special feature of People and Nature is starting to trickle through. The issue includes some wonderful contributions from scholars and practitioners working on the digital dimensions of nature recovery!

Digital Ecologies@digicologies.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our special feature of People and Nature on the Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery is coming into being! The special feature emerges from our 2024 conference at the Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub, Jesus College, Oxford besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... @peopleandnature.bsky.social

Did you miss Leah Gerber's insightful talk on designing conservation science for decision-making last week? Not to worry, you can watch it here now. @ecioxford.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk

Designing Conservation Science for Decisions - Leah Gerber

YouTube video by Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery

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Environmental Delivery Plans are central to England’s Nature Restoration Fund, giving developers a way to fund nature recovery alongside new housing and infrastructure. Our new briefing sets out how EDPs can balance diverse evidence and proportionate risk in practice. @ecioxford.bsky.social

An approach to assessing evidence for Environmental Delivery Plans (EDPs)

An approach to using evidence to create Environmental Development Plans

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We’re excited to be #hiring new researchers to join the Farm Environments in Policy and Practice project @oxfordgeography.bsky.social If you’re passionate about farming, nature, participatory policy research, & getting out into fields, we’d love to hear from you.

For your weekend's viewing pleasure: a delightful, fascinating talk by @naturerecovery.bsky.social director @ymalhi.bsky.social on ecological vibrancy, the beating of the Earth's hemispheric green heart over the year, and wild vs ghost tropical islands. Enjoy! naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/news/yadvind...

Yadvinder Malhi’s TED Talk: Measuring the Planet’s Heartbeat

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New paper from Sruthi Krishna Moorthy and @ymalhi.bsky.social examines 60 years of tropical ecology research 🌍 The study highlights the growing dominance of tropical forest research and persistent global inequities in tropical ecology authorship. doi.org/10.1111/btp....

Shifting Trends in Tropical Ecology Research Over Six Decades

We analyzed over 170,000 tropical ecology publications (1960–2023) using a large language model to extract study location and biome information at scale. We show that research has grown across all bi....

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This Friday we are hosting the inspirational David Abrams, about intimate understanding of our place on this Earth

Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery@naturerecovery.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We've some amazing talks lined up for this term, & this one's bound to be a hit, so register your seat ASAP! You can listen to David Abram's inspirational talk online or in-person, followed by a drinks reception. Eveyone's welcome. Register: bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiv... @ecioxford.bsky.social

What a great talk to kick off the new term... followed by a book signing and drinks reception. Register here: oxfordbiodiversitynetwork.bookwhen.com @ecioxford.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

The Oxford Nature Network@biodivoxford.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🌳Join us online/in person on TUESDAY for: Saving Britain’s Rainforests. Discover how The Thousand Year Trust is restoring the UK’s temperate rainforests, thinking in centuries, inspired by the mighty sessile oak. Register here: oxfordbiodiversitynetwork.bookwhen.com @ecioxford.bsky.social

Looking forward to hosting Merlin Hanbury- Tenison to talk about his book (Our Oaken Bones) and his quest to restore Britain’s temperate rainforests. 415 pm today, in person and online, all welcome

The Oxford Nature Network@biodivoxford.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🌳Join us online/in person on TUESDAY for: Saving Britain’s Rainforests. Discover how The Thousand Year Trust is restoring the UK’s temperate rainforests, thinking in centuries, inspired by the mighty sessile oak. Register here: oxfordbiodiversitynetwork.bookwhen.com @ecioxford.bsky.social

🌿 How can community science help us understand the benefits of nature? New Oxford research shows it’s already contributing useful evidence, especially on biodiversity, but important gaps remain. Better support could help connect local knowledge with decision-making.

Community science for assessing nature’s benefits: a systematic review and survey

How can community science initiatives support assessments of nature’s benefits?

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Here's a conversation with restoration pioneer Bernado Streassburg and me on the remarkable story of urban forest restoration in Rio de Janeiro, from the 19th century to the 21st, recording in gorgeous Tijuca National Park @naturerecovery.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhXe...

Tijuca: the story of nature recovery in Rio's astonishing urban rainforest

YouTube video by Yadvinder Malhi

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More info, and to register for what promises to be a special evening. @ecioxford.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

How to Save the Amazon

Dom Phillips' unfinished story — now completed as a powerful call to protect the Amazon.

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We have organised this event in Earth Day to commemorate the memory and legacy and Dom Phillips and Bruno Perreira and celebrate the launch of the paperback of Don’s book and explore futures. In person only , at Oxford’s beautiful Natural History Museum - all welcome @naturerecovery.bsky.social

Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery@naturerecovery.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Join us on Earth Day for a special event: How to Save the Amazon-Solutions from the Forest. An evening showcasing Indigenous voices & culture alongside cutting-edge science & data 📅 22 April, 19:00–22:00 📍 Oxford Natural History Museum With @morethanadodo.bsky.social @globalcanopy.org

“We’ve forgotten what we’ve lost.” @guyshrubsole.bsky.social on nature, memory, & land. A powerful conversation about ownership, inequality, & what real nature recovery might look like in Britain. www.buzzsprout.com/2135393/epis... #Nature #Biodiversity #Rewilding #UKNature @ecioxford.bsky.social

Very excited to see the online natural resonance festival starting next week using the arts to explore connection with nature (and to play a small part with a few readings…). Sign up on the link below www.naturalresonance.world/2026-nrf-eve...

2026 NRF Events — Natural Resonance

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Ivy isn't a 'parasite', and it doesn't 'strangle' trees. Instead, it's a massively important natural part of forest ecosystems, providing food and shelter to a great range of animal inhabitants. But also, it's *beautiful*.

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

Yesterday, we held our Tree Conference. The whole of Year Twelve spent the day filled with walking in woodland, a keynote lecture from Professor Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi.bsky.social, and taking part in 12 different workshops! Find out more here: tinyurl.com/3n6rb8zp

It was an honour to give a talk at Oxford University’s Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery last night, with the title ‘Ill Fares the Land? Holding large landowners to account for nature destruction & restoration’ Huge thanks to @ymalhi.bsky.social for inviting me! bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiv...

This was such a great talk. Well deserving of a re-watch.

It was wonderful to host you @guys hrubsole.bsky.social , and such a terrific talk and provocative discussion on a topic not talked about enough (until you began writing about it) The talk will be listed on our YouTube, alongside our amazing library of previous talks youtube.com/@oxfordnatur...

Guy Shrubsole@guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It was an honour to give a talk at Oxford University’s Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery last night, with the title ‘Ill Fares the Land? Holding large landowners to account for nature destruction & restoration’ Huge thanks to @ymalhi.bsky.social for inviting me! bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiv...

“Winston Churchill did intervene in Iran and we are living with the consequences of that today” @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Come for the dinosaurs, stay for the architecture! 🤩 We couldn’t resist sharing some more photos taken on a recent stroll around the Museum! Have you ever noticed these details? ✨