• Using moths and birds to investigate the impacts of forest restoration on biodiversity
    The Cairngorms Connect partnership is a bold and ambitious 200-year vision to enhance habitats, species and ecological processes across a vast area within the Cairngorms National Park. Christina Hunt...
  • The latest UK and England biodiversity indicators
    The annual update of the UK’s Biodiversity Indicators was published today by Defra. These are important metrics, reporting on the state of the UK’s biodiversity, the pressures it faces and the conservation...
  • Using high-resolution snow models to investigate climate change impacts on montane biodiversity
    Guest blog by Alex Priestley, PhD student in snow science at the University of Edinburgh School of Geosciences as part of the NERC-funded E3 Doctoral Training Partnership . Our uplands are home to species...
  • How is environmental DNA helping monitor biodiversity in Gola?
    Nearly 5,000m away, the Gola Rainforest National Park in Sierra Leone is one of the largest remaining blocks of Upper Guinea Forest. With such a large area, biodiversity surveying can often be tricky...
  • A biodiversity target based on species extinctions
    In this blog, Professor Richard Gregory (Head of Monitoring, Conservation Science) describes a new paper , on which he is a co-author, that proposes a single target for the recovery of nature to inform...