New Paper Published! 📚 We’ve developed a novel approach for estimating exposure to land cover at the LSOA level, designed to reduce exposure misclassification. Read more here: www.ecehh.org/news/mapping... @ecehh.org @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social

A soft, snowy coat and the sweetest little face... Let's SEA who's behind door 9... 🌊 ❄️ #RSPBAdvent25

A unique partnership between the University of Exeter and the National Trust received a prestigious award. The ‘Shaping Landscapes for People and Nature to Thrive’ partnership was a winner at the Knowledge Exchange UK Awards in the Strategic Partnerships category. @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social

#biodiversity #storytelling @booktrust.org.uk @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social ❤️

It’s arrived! The new ExCASES biodiversity mission: Cultivating communities who care for urban #trees. Access resources designed to offer insights, audience-specific guidance, inspiring stories & replicable models for practitioners & community members alike. renewbiodiversity.org.uk/urban-trees/

Bogs. Quagmires. Peatlands. Squidgy worlds full of beginnings and endings. Inspired by bogs, we hope our poetry & creative approaches will help you get stuck into understanding & caring for #peatlands. Discover the squelchy world of 'BogTalk' below. renewbiodiversity.org.uk/bog-talk-poe...

'Boglieder' by Richard Scott was commissioned for 'Bog Talk', a partnership between @exeter.ac.uk @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social South West Peatland Partnership & The Poetry Society. Listen to a podcast featuring more of the commissioned poems at bit.ly/BogTalkPodcast

New report from @charlesmasquelier.bsky.social & RENEW Theme 3: Land Managers. BogTalk: Insights from engagement with land managers in the High Peak. #renewbiodiversity doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Issue 84 of The Interpreter's House features the brilliant Poet, DJ, writer & RENEW Early Career Researcher @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social which: 'looks broadly at human-nonhuman communication & 'critterly voices' in contemporary #ecopoetry.' 👇 theinterpretershouse.org/parkin-84 #renewbiodiversity

'Sundew' by Fiona Benson was commissioned for 'Bog Talk', a partnership between @exeter.ac.uk @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social South West Peatland Partnership & The Poetry Society. Listen to a podcast featuring more of the commissioned poems at bit.ly/BogTalkPodcast

The RENEW project is grounded in #partnerships across the #environment sector & beyond...

Welcome to day two of the 'RENEW Biodiversity Parliament 2025. Is Nature for all? Exploring Environmental Justice.' Today we begin by exploring the impact of #activism & #changemaking for #biodiversity renewal...

This morning at the 'RENEW Biodiversity Parliament 2025 – Is nature for all?' has been incredible, with powerful speakers and careful future thinking about environmental justice & nature connectivity...

Good morning from the 'RENEW Biodiversity Parliament 2025 - Is nature for all?’ Today we explore some fundamentals of #environmental #justice, decision making, #land management for #biodiversity renewal...

We've signed the Declaration on UK Insect Declines – but now it’s time for action. The UK needs to create a Big Insect Rescue Plan – but we need your help to shape it! 🦋 Have your say here👇 butterfly-conservation.org/big-insect-r...

Content Alert: The @nationaltrust.org.uk's nature pages are absolutely brimming with incredible #biodiversity content from Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles to Naturehood: Urban nature walks & challenges via the free app: @gojauntly.bsky.social #renewbiodiversity www.nationaltrust.org.uk/discover/nat...

Our October Issue is out today: www.nature.com/nrbd/volumes... Content in this issue looks to the past (historical ecology and herbaria) and to related social science disciplines (anthropology and political ecology) to gain insights about biodiversity science and conservation. 🧪🌎

#Oaktober | @arcticbasecamp.org | @itslouisvi.bsky.social #SaveTheOaks #ClimateBasecamp news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

Have you come across @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social's Paws for Thought project? The second report ("Adopting a standardised, holistic approach towards managing the impacts of dog walking on the environment in the UK") has some recommendations for signage renewbiodiversity.org.uk/paws-for-tho...

We’re celebrating #NationalPoetryDay by exploring the rhythmic world beneath & above the water. ‘Pond Beats’ worked with school children to create #biodiverse soundscapes intertwined with the potent imagination of this new generation of #eco-poetry makers... …What happened next... 👇👇👇

Colleagues from our @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social will be speaking at this event. @cornwall.exeter.ac.uk @uniexecec.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @researchnt.bsky.social

#NBNconf25 - programme announced! 📅20 November, Bristol. Celebrating 25 years of making data work for nature with wonderful speakers and inspiring presentations. Join us if you're passionate about nature, data and the critical role NBN plays in protecting and restoring biodiversity bit.ly/NBNconf25

Our Co-CEO @anniecrombie.bsky.social was delighted to write this piece for the Department for Education about the power of reading to support children in kinship care, foster care & adoption. Discover the benefits of sharing stories & how we harness these in our programmes: https://bit.ly/4nomTvb

We're hiring!🧪🪶 Join our Conservation Science Technical team and help design and develop field equipment for research activities such as tracking and monitoring Full details here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

The Ebrel model is part of the 'Enablr' system for nature recovery being developed by the RENEW project. Check out the Enablr explainer and how these tools were used to shape Cornwall's Local Nature Recovery Strategy: renewbiodiversity.org.uk/decision-sup... #Conservation #Ecosystems #LandManagement

🌍🧪Ecology needs inclusive systems and equitable opportunities. Our new BES report shares evidence, lived experience, and practical steps to dismantle barriers in science.  Written by BES Network members, part-funded by Pride in STEM. Read the full report here:

🌿 Become a Nature Positive Student Ambassador! 🌍 Join a global movement of students taking action for nature on campus 🌱 🔗 www.naturepositiveuniversities.net/become-an-am... 📅 Deadline: Sunday 2nd November 2025 (1/2)

RENEW Research paper provides a flexible approach for nature recovery in landscapes with multiple choices for habitat creation. Read more about the Ebrel model: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #naturerecovery #biodiversityrenewal @exeter.ac.uk @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social

An exciting new ExCASES report presents findings from their ‘Future of #Biodiversity Renewal’ mission; exploring the #diversity of #values, #worldviews & understandings that shape aspirations towards biodiversity renewal amongst the RENEW #community. More: renewbiodiversity.org.uk/excases-miss...

Wiltshire's landscape and ancient history has inspired a new exhibition, 'Downland: Art and the Archaeological Imagination in Wiltshire' curated by archaeologist Dr. Rose Ferraby ...read more on thedirt.news #archaeology #DrRoseFerraby #exhibition #Landscape #Wiltshire thedirt.news/echoes-in-th...

Peatlands – among the planet’s most important carbon sinks – are increasingly under threat from climate change. But a study co-authored by Prof Angela Gallego-Sala @exeter.ac.uk finds the combined forces of plant changes and microbes may provide a natural defence. news.exeter.ac.uk/research/new...

Owl enthusiasts, unite. It's #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay 🦉

The pupils did some pond dipping, learned about bronze-age archaeology, got up close to sphagnum moss and, of course, wrote poems! It's all part of Bog Talk, a project in the @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social research programme led by @exeter.ac.uk & @nationaltrust.org.uk

Happy #BogDay! Discover how the UK’s leading #poetry organisation - @poetrysociety.bsky.social has been working with young people to raise awareness about climate change & to encourage young people to use their creativity to advocate for the natural world. renewbiodiversity.org.uk/exploring-bi...

Listen to Northern Ireland Farmer, John Rankin as he reminds us to listen to earlier generations as we experiment with farming systems fit for the future. This & more from the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Oral History team from this year’s #Groundswell Festival blog. blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vi...

"From miniscule #bacteria to colossal blue #whales or from tiny #flowers to giant #redwoods…" #Biodiversity books for children selected by the brilliant @booktrust.org.uk 🦠🐋🪻🌳 www.booktrust.org.uk/book-recomme...

"Whatever lies on the horizon, these reserves might just offer a simple vision of how good things could be." - Prof. John Wedgwood Clarke, Wild Westcountry Odyssey 2025 @naturalengland.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social #biodiversity youtu.be/tMQY-u2wtEI

Are you a nature inspired poet aged 25 or under? Compose a piece of #poetry on the wonderful world of #bogs & #peatlands & you could get published on the @youngpoetsnet.bsky.social. Enter The Bog Challenge competition below. Deadline 10th Aug 2025. ✍️ ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/workshop/bog...

We had a great time at #Groundswell25 last week. Huge thanks to all who participated in our sessions, chatted with us and gave lovely feedback. Particular thanks to @britishlibrary.bsky.social, Rothamsted Research, Pasture for Life and of course the GS organising team for making us so welcome!

Discover Natural England’s new series of six films showcasing the South West's stunning landscapes. Through poetry & film, see how Natural England’s Protected Site Strategies & RENEW are working to help #biodiversity flourish. Film 1. Kynance Cove, #Cornwall. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Lp...

Our @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social Collaborations team are packing bags today for #Groundswell25. Come join us (Wshop Tent, Weds, 5.30) to hear our participants' stories of how #agriculture & #conservation were separated, how we can bring them back together! #envhums

With a beak so bold and feathers neat, I nest where cliffs and oceans meet. I carry fish in silver rows - A cheerful sight we love & know. Who am I? #RSPBRiddles

DYK the UK has 24,000+ insect species? They really matter! 📲 Spot an insect? Record it! 🦋 Help track changes ⚠️ Warn of threats like the Yellow-legged hornet 🐞 It’s fun too! This #InsectWeek: Stand Tall for the Small 🐝 @royentsoc.bsky.social @ukladybirds.bsky.social 🧪

📢We're recruiting for four new roles to support the @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social project! Are you a PhD graduate hoping to solve the real-world challenges of biodiversity renewal? ➡️3 Postdoctoral Research Fellow posts now open careers.nationaltrust.org.uk/OA_HTML/a/#/... and...

Calling all young writers: new Young Poets Network challenge alert! Foyle Young Poets Freya and Jennie invite you to explore the wonderful world of bogs and to get inspired to write your own poems. Enter by 10 August: bit.ly/YPNBogs

Over 1,000 people have backed our project to develop the ultimate walking, running, wheeling, cycling and horse riding network for Britain and Ireland! But we're missing you! Take a look and help make it happen www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways We'd love for you to join in 🐌⭐️

The first film in the six-part series visits Kynance Cove in #Cornwall where Natural England works with @nationaltrust.org.uk to manage this wonderful nature reserve. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Lp...

My adventures on #Dartmoor 🦋 Grateful for time in such a stunning place — not just for the views, but to reflect on the meaningful work we’re doing at RENEW. Proud to be part of a team that blends passion with purpose. #nature #biodiversity @ecehh.org

Our proposed system of coloured pawprints would provide consistent countryside guidelines for dog walkers.