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Case Studies

Access our latest case studies detailing ongoing biodiversity renewal research and collaborative partnerships.

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Four people from the waist downwards walking on a forest path

12 August 2026

Recreation and Engagement Activity Monitoring (REAM): Using digital data to predict visitor patterns in green and blue spaces in the UK

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A sign saying Community Garden amongst green foliage

4 August 2026

ExCASES mission: Exploring collaborative governance to support community land stewardship for biodiversity and social benefit

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A fishing trawler entering a harbour, with lighthouse in the background

4 August 2026

ExCASES mission: What’s the Catch: Investigating the challenges and opportunities for increasing domestic consumption of UK-caught seafood

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A whale tail fin poking out from the sea, with a human photographer looking on

4 August 2026

ExCASES mission: Navigating choppy waters: how understanding and managing human wildlife conflict differs for marine environments

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Sun rise over the sea, with cliffs and bay in the foreground

4 August 2026

ExCASES mission: UK marine and coastal horizon scan

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A woman pushing a man in a wheelchair through a countryside landscape

3 August 2026

ExCASES mission: Beyond Ableism: Inclusive Nature Access and Biodiversity Renewal

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A tree sapling growing out of the forest floor

22 July 2026

ExCASES mission: Emerging Ecologies: A Guide for the Perplexed

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A mountain vista with lakes and rugged mountains jutting out of the landscape

1 July 2026

ExCASES mission: Rights of Nature and Biodiversity Renewal in the UK

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An illustration of participants at the event enjoying working together sharing ideas towards new biodiversity storytelling.

11 November 2025

BookTrust: Getting children reading about biodiversity

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A photograph of a Slow-Ways map that was used as part of Collaboration in Practice workshops. There are annotations to the map such as where a researcher found a fossil or where RENEW's collaborative research began.

10 November 2025

RENEW as a ‘living laboratory’: researching collaboration in practice

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A banner illustration by Jackie Wong with an open children's book displaying the words Biodiversity Storytelling Summit.

21 October 2025

RENEW and BookTrust: New Nature Stories

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An AI generated image of a series of agricultural fields intersected by hedgerow and tree planting.

6 October 2025

Smart Interfaces for biodiversity models

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A photograph of peatland on Dartmoor with children in the background conducting a bioblitz

8 September 2025

BogTalk: Poetry and public engagement with peatlands

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An image of a group of people working to restore nature.

9 June 2025

Exploring variations in nature related attitudes and behaviours

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An image of an environmental dispute by Markus Spiske

12 May 2025

How can we make environmental justice a reality?

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7 April 2025

Oral histories of the environmental sector

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A forestry worker, assessing a woodland

24 March 2025

Towards Nature-Positive Business

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A photograph of trees lining a city street by Vitalijs-Barilo

12 November 2024

ExCASES Mission: Cultivating communities who care for urban trees

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A photograph of an autumnal woodland by Veliko Karachiviev

23 October 2024

ExCASES Mission: Who decides for Nature? Embedding deliberative democracy in biodiversity renewal.

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A photograph of a person sitting with a dog looking overlooking a bay.

21 October 2024

ExCASES Mission: Paws for Thought: Towards environmentally friendly dog walking in the UK

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An image of three deer standing in a pink field of heather.

21 August 2024

ExCASES Mission: Seeing the forest for the deer

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A landscape image with heather growing across a valley.

20 August 2024

ExCASES Mission: The Future of Biodiversity Renewal

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A photograp of a cornfield with wind turbines

23 July 2024

Biodiversity impacts of different net zero carbon pathways for UK’s power system

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A photograph of a man sitting looking over a lake whilst working on his laptop.

23 July 2024

Integrating Social Data into Systematic Conservation Planning (SCP)

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An image of a willow tit, a black white and beige bird, sitting on a branch.

23 July 2024

Landscape-scale action for Willow Tit recovery

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A photograph of people walking in nature by Sebastian Pichler on Unsplash

10 July 2024

Perceptions of green and natural spaces

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A picture of a person looking across moorland in Edinburgh, UK

25 June 2024

Personalised Ecologies Index pilot study – Quantifying people’s interactions with nature

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A photograph of a farmer and son ploughing a field in the UK.

17 June 2024

Understanding how farmers engage with nature recovery schemes

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An image of binoculars resting on an identification book on birds,

10 June 2024

Improving citizen science biodiversity recording through tailored communication approaches

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An image of stone pebbles balanced on top of each other.

21 May 2024

Learning from best practice in sustainable governance performance

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An image of a person sitting on a rock overlooking a valley below at sunrise.

7 May 2024

The Explore framework: Integrating health, wellbeing, nature and sustainability outcomes into strategic place-making

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An image of heathland with clouds rolling across the landscape.

7 May 2024

Co-design to improve biodiversity outcomes on common land

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An image of a field with a child walking in the background. In the foreground is a sign with the words no dog fouling on it.

23 April 2024

Reviewing the evidence to protect natural sites

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An image of a Eurasian Jay

16 April 2024

Biodiversity’s Ghosts: Ecopoetry in a Time of Hyperobjects

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An image of a footprint surrounded by objects from nature

11 April 2024

Helping businesses understand their biodiversity footprint – Using a Life Cycle Assessment approach to quantify biodiversity impacts for large organisations

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A photograph of an apiarist managing his hives.

10 April 2024

Ecological Sensemaking in Organisations: Understanding Biodiversity, Nature Loss and Organisational Responsibility

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A picture of a pipet sitting on a hedgerow

25 March 2024

Mapping farmer-led opportunities for nature recovery

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A black and white image of a flower abstracted into an inkblot.

19 March 2024

Using creative methods to explore interdisciplinarity

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A close up picture of a farmer holding top soil.

19 March 2024

Integrating resilience into corporate nature agendas to enhance business and investor action

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A profile image by Becca Lovell with a person standing on a bridge looking into the water

22 January 2024

The Renewing Biodiversity Longitudinal Survey (ReBLS) | Exploring how individual attitudes to nature change over time

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An image of Durdle Door Arch in Dorset.

20 November 2023

Evaluating access interventions at the coastline

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