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Welcome to the RENEW news pages. Catch up with articles from RENEW’s interdisciplinary research detailing our work towards biodiversity renewal across the UK.

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A photograph of two people walking in a wildflower bed, taken by Rebecca Lovell.

11 March 2025

The Renewing Biodiversity Longitudinal Survey (ReBLS): our approach for a new longitudinal survey

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An image of Will Bugg talking at a conference with other delegates.

20 February 2025

An international perspective about corporate impacts on nature and the PhD journey

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

6 February 2025

Confirmed Decline of Willow Tits in Cornwall: Evidence & Action to Prevent Extinction

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A photograph of rolling hills in the UK, divided by agricultural land, taken by Veronica White on Unsplash.

3 February 2025

Aligning strategic & participatory approaches to agri-environment scheme design & implementation to enhance nature recovery

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An image of a speaker beginning a presentation with a screen that reads RENEW.

2 December 2024

Finding My Place at the RENEW Biodiversity Parliament

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A banner image with two researchers working in a field with the CIEEM logo and the words: Championing a sustainable and natural environment.

24 November 2024

RENEW PhD Student Sophie Stenson presents at the Chartered Institute of Ecology & Environmental Management (CIEEM)

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A photograph of a carnivorous bog plant with long sticky tendrils

22 October 2024

Bog Talk with Rose Ferraby & John Wedgwood Clarke

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A storyboard illustration by illustrator in residence Georgia Harmey, detailing events throughoiut the day.

14 October 2024

RENEW x BookTrust Biodiversity Storytelling Summit 2024

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

21 August 2024

Seeing the Forest for the Deer. ExCASES first mission is published.

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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 picture of Ruth Gripper standing on the shoreline in Cornwall

6 August 2024

Tales from a recovering Parliamentary candidate

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A photgraphy of a brightly coloured wildflower field

5 August 2024

NCUB: Nature’s Nexus – Showcasing environmental collaboration

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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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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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An image of a tree standing in an urban setting.

24 June 2024

Mapping human inequalities and biodiversity in the UK

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

17 June 2024

Understanding ‘quality of engagement,’ in nature renewal among farmers.

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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 a highland cow tucking into fresh hay.

5 June 2024

Embracing Springtime with the National Trust: A Journey Beyond Country Houses

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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

Integrating health, wellbeing, nature and sustainability (HWNS) outcomes into strategic place-making

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A group of people sat round and point at a big map laid out on a a table

10 April 2024

Partner Forum: Introducing ExCASES

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A photograph of the National Trust Heelis, event venue.

11 March 2024

Rapid ExCASES mission ideation: from the Biodiversity Parliament to Padlet

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A visual illustration by Jackie Wong.

11 October 2023

The first Biodiversity Storytelling Summit at Kew Gardens, London

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The National Poetry Day banner image of a tortoise and the word refuge.

4 October 2023

Celebrating National Poetry Day 2023 – Refuge with The Poetry Society

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An image of a family walking in nature

3 October 2023

People of colour in ‘green spaces’: key barriers and the role of academia

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A photograph of people in nature

27 September 2023

The Conservation Careers Podcast with RENEW Co-Director Professor Kevin Gaston

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An image of a deer in a UK park by Nicolas Lyandrou

15 August 2023

Updates from the field with David Bavin and the RENEW ExCASES team

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Keble College Oxford, Courtesy of the Agile Initiative

24 July 2023

Reflections from the Agile Summer School

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An image of a child and parent feeding ducks on a pond

28 June 2023

The importance of Personalised Ecologies

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A person sitting in a window ledge looking below.

5 June 2023

Scientists want your view on watching nature through the window

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A picture of a pine cone on a section of a map

24 May 2023

Partner Forum event: What works for inter – and transdisciplinary collaboration?

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A photo of a small lego boat with 'Good ship ExCASES' written on a paper sail

6 March 2023

Launching ExCASES: a rapid solutions generator for biodiversity renewal challenges

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A picture of a person sitting in a woodland

22 February 2023

RENEW Event – Perspectives on personalised ecology *Event Now Closed*

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A landscape photograph of scottish highlands

20 February 2023

Partnership’s research will boost UK biodiversity and protect landscapes in critical decade

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An academic office with a tree canopy displayed on the PC monitors

23 January 2023

NERC RENEW PhD Studentship 2022/23. *Applications closed*

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Trees breaking through sunlight in a wooded area

1 December 2022

The Nature of Business – Report Download

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A microphone in a live enviornment

16 November 2022

Poems inspire at the Biodiversity Parliament

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A man holding up a glass sphere to the canopy of the trees in a wooded area

16 November 2022

RENEW Biodiversity Parliament 2022

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A kitchen fully stocked with sauces and pots

16 November 2022

Renewing our relationship to food

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