🔔Scholarships announced for the #NatureBasedSolutions to Global Challenges Foundation Course.

2 fully-funded & further partial scholarships are available for those working in the public sector in a DAC-listed country.

Learn more and apply⤵️
naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/news/nbs-to-gl…

In this new paper we make the case for a positive approach to communicating the biodiversity crisis.

There's a lot to unpack, but just a short 🧵 1/x

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19…

What commitments have the world’s largest companies made to tackling the decline of the living world? How have the changed over time? Are their actions consistent with the scale of transformation required for a ‘Nature-positive’ future?

Our new paper sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

While being honest about the scale of the challenge, we need to trigger positive emotions when communicating the #biodiversity crisis or we risk disempowering people and triggering #ecoanxiety . New paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19… #ConservationOptimism

INVESTMENT ZONES LATEST: 77 sites (& counting) have been proposed by 35 councils to become deregulated Investment Zones - including huge greenfield housing developments & several ports

NEW MAP: google.com/maps/d/edit?mi…
DATABASE: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… 🧵1/n

Environmental governance for the Anthropocene: promising new directions or dead end? Oxford Networks for the Environment's annual lecture is this afternoon - sign up here: bit.ly/3T0h0VQ SoGE, University of Oxford Oxford Biology University of Oxford

So sad to be wrapping up our field work this week for the AGILE initiative Oxford Martin School! 😢 We had a lovely summer of quadrats, pitfalls, transects, and suction sampling - now it is time for winter hibernation in the lab, with 100s of samples to sort! 🔬

'Biodiversity: Concepts, Patters, Trends & Perspectives': the DEFINITIVE version is now out. I very much enjoyed writing this biased synthesis with malhi
Find it here:
annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…

Just finished reading 'An Immense World' by Ed Yong is on sabbatical and loved it. It explores how other animals sense & perceive the world, showing our human sensing of the world gives a very limited picture of the 'immense world' that can be sensed by other species 1
penguin.co.uk/books/440513/a…

A wonderland of mushrooms in ⁦Wytham Woods⁩ today…

We’re excited to share our Wildlife Trusts’ Habitat Banking Investment Model work at #naturefinance22 ! This has been a great collab between 4 Trusts & @financeearth. Interested in finding out more? Register for our webinar on 1 Dec:
bbowt.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Peatland, a key ecosystem for wildlife habitat and carbon storage, is to be tripled in Wales as part of #NatureRecovery plans.

Read more on the recommendations from a 'Biodiversity Deep Dive' commissioned by the Welsh Government ⤵️
naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/news/wales-wel…

In today’s event, ‘Economic Prosperity: Is it Actually in our Nature?’ Tony Juniper outlined how investment in nature can drive significant returns for the economy.

Read his speech here 👉 gov.uk/government/spe…

How mass tree-planting initiatives in the wrong places or without a long-term follow-up plan often fail…

The UK has lost a staggering 7.5m acres of wildflower meadow & flower-rich grassland in living memory. But nearly 1,400 insect species rely on these habitats for survival. Let's protect our last 3% of meadows, plant wildflowers, and stop spraying and over-mowing green spaces 🐝