Research stories

Nature-friendly farming budget swells in UK – but cuts elsewhere make recovery fraught

Nature-friendly farming budget swells in UK – but cuts elsewhere make recovery fraught Nathalie Seddon, University of Oxford Nature in the UK appeared to receive a rare funding boost ...

Acoustic monitoring fieldwork in the Scottish Highlands

We have just completed two weeks of successful data collection in Caledonian pinewood in the Scottish Highlands. Using passive acoustic monitoring to survey bats and birds, and trialling ...

Bridging Worlds: Reflections on the role of academia in addressing the biodiversity crisis

In a world facing accelerating biodiversity loss, Oxford Martin Visiting Fellow Leah Gerber hosted a panel conversation that brought together different voices focused on the role of academia ...

How hedgehog droppings can be used to study biodiversity at a local scale

By Dr Sophie Lund Rasmussen (Dr Hedgehog), WildCRU, Department of Biology Biodiversity is vanishing before our eyes. It is important to monitor biodiversity loss to optimise and target the ...

Professor Yadvinder Malhi named on ENDS Report Power List 2025

Congratulations to our colleague Yadvinder Malhi, Centre Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery, Professor of Ecosystem Science at the Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and ...

Natalie Duffus recognised on the ENDS POWER LIST 2025

Congratulations to Natalie Duffus for being recognised on the 2024 the Ends Power List as an unsung hero! Asked to qualify Natalie Duffus’s contribution to the UK environmental sector, ...