The ReBLS survey: understanding how people’s attitudes to nature change over time

09 July 2025, 13:00-14:00

The Renewing Biodiversity Longitudinal Survey (ReBLS) is a joint project between the University of Exeter and Natural England undertaken as part of RENEW’s Individual Actors theme. The aim of ReBLS is to better understand how people’s awareness, attitudes, and behaviours concerning biodiversity change over time. The survey will help explain the factors, such as awareness of and exposure to efforts to renew biodiversity, which influence these changes.

This webinar will give an overview of the survey, detailing how we are collecting data from the same participants over, initially, three years. The research team will discuss the research questions, their plans for analysis, and explain how the work fits with ongoing plans by Natural England to strengthen work around the indicators of nature engagement through time. We will also present initial findings from our first cross-sectional cohort of 18,000 participants, representative of the adult population of England, including work looking at people’s support for various biodiversity renewal actions.

Speakers: Lewis Elliott, Jo Garrett, Fraenze Kibowski, Amy Greenwood

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