• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Jane Applegarth (University of Oxford, Oxford University Centre for the Environment) , Carlyn Samuel (University of Oxford)
• Timing: Fridays
• Web Address: https://bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiversitynetwork
• Organising department: Environmental Change Institute

Friday 14 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Nathalie Pettorelli: Conservation under rapid climatic changes: the case for rewilding
  Nathalie Pettorelli (ZSL)

Friday 4 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Results based finance and REDD+ safeguards: Challenges for demonstrating and verifying the social and environmental integrity of Verified Emission Reductions at jurisdictional scale
  Daniela Rey Christen (Climate Law and Policy)

Friday 11 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Nature recovery in England: why, what and how.
  Tony Juniper, (Natural England)

Friday 18 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Prescribing nature for human health.
  Prof Kathy Willis (University of Oxford)

Friday 25 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Changes in the Great Plains as indicated by insect ecological responses
  Ellen Welti (Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, Washington)

Friday 2 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - The lost rainforests of Britain
  Guy Shrubsole (Writer and campaigner)

Friday 9 December 2022 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Introduced megafauna and the biological reality of nativeness
  Erick Lundgren (Aarhus University)

Friday 20 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - The role of the carbon sink in recovering degraded and secondary forest across the tropics
  Viola Heinrich

Friday 27 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Nature Positive: fact or fiction?
  Dr Joseph Bull (University of Oxford)

Friday 3 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - The Wildlife Trusts’ action for nature and climate: priorities and challenges.
  Kathryn Brown (The Wildlife Trusts)
• 16:15 - The Wildlife Trusts’ action for nature and climate: priorities and challenges.
  Kathryn Brown, (The Wildlife Trusts)

Friday 10 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Belowground plant-fungal interactions in forests
  Sofia Gomes, Vincent Merckx

Friday 17 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Monetary valuation of nature: pragmatic conservation or unhelpful commodification?
  Various Speakers
• 16:30 - Overcoming our societal addiction to growth to build a sustainable wellbeing future.
  Robert Costanza (Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London)

Thursday 23 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Culture clashes in conservation
  Various Speakers

Friday 24 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Rewilding
  Charlie Burrell (Knepp)

Monday 6 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Phantom credits: why rainforests offsets are not working.
  Patrick Greenfield (Journalist with the Guardian)

Friday 10 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - The search for a healthy environment.
  Michael Depledge

Friday 17 March 2023 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - The new Global Biodiversity Framework: the good, the bad and the narratives
  Sandra Diaz (Professor of Ecology at Córdoba National University)

Friday 5 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - The Art of Plant Conservation
  Chris Thorogood (Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum)

Friday 12 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - What is good about "nature": locating value in the nonhuman world
  Emma Marris

Friday 19 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - The Jewel Box: How moths illuminate nature’s hidden rules.
  Tim Blackburn (University College London)

Friday 26 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Mike Morecroft - Climate change and nature recovery: from global thinking to local action
  Mike Morecroft (Natural England)

Friday 9 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Quantifying and predicting resilience from individuals, to populations, to whole communities
  Dr Rob Salguero-Gómez (University of Oxford)

Friday 16 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Connected Conservation: rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world
  Rachel Carmenta (University of East Anglia)

Friday 23 June 2023 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - A future for nature: quantitative perspectives on land and biodiversity under global change
  Tom Harwood (University of Oxford)

Friday 30 June 2023 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - 40 years of conservation in Sabah
  Glyn Davies (WWF Malaysia)

Tuesday 11 July 2023 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Is livestock grazing essential to mitigating climate change?
  George Monbiot, Allan Savory (The Savory Institute.)

Friday 8 September 2023 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Holistic Management: Claims are not supported but are there social lessons to be learnt?
  Heidi Hawkins

Friday 22 September 2023 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - The recovery of ecosystem complexity in a changing environment
  David Moreno Mateos (University of Oxford)

Friday 29 September 2023 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - In search of the holy grail – the one true biodiversity metric
  EJ Milner-Gulland (Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity)

Friday 6 October 2023 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Fixing our broken relationship with nature.
  Miles Richardson (University of Derby)

Friday 13 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Screening of the 'Good Natured' film festival
  TBA

Friday 20 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - A virtual rainforest
  Professor Robert Ewers (Imperial College)

Tuesday 24 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - The Yawanawá Amazonian Indigenous People: Socio-environmental experiences of ecology, climate, health and territory
  Various Speakers

Friday 27 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Nature is Culture: The Deep Global History and Transformative Future of Nature-Sustaining Landscapes
  Erle Ellis (University of Maryland)

Wednesday 1 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - We Are Guardians - Documentary screening and Q&A with the directors
  Various Speakers

Friday 3 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Can we have it all from the land?
  Dustin Benton (Green Alliance)

Friday 10 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Fishing for Nutrition: Healthy Oceans for People and Planet
  Professor Christina Hicks (Lancaster University)

Friday 17 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Rewilding European landscapes: lessons learned and future directions for science and practice
  Dr Sophie Monsarrat (Rewilding Europe)

Friday 24 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Rewilding, Restoration, and the Future of Nature Recovery.
  James Bullock (CEH)

Friday 1 December 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Mycorrhizas and ecosystem functioning.
  Dr Laura Martinez-Suz (Kew Gardens)

Friday 19 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Recovery of degraded coastal ecosystems requires so much more than protection – how restoration and conservation go hand-in-hand
  Dr Tundi Agardy (Sound Seas)

Friday 26 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Embracing complexity to understand and predict the consequences of environmental changes on biodiversity.
  Miguel Bastos Araújo (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales)

Friday 2 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Land tenure, deforestation, and monocultures: Menaces to food and territorial justice
  Professor Elena Lazos Chavero (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)

Friday 16 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Captured sunshine: what can an energetic view of life on Earth tell us about nature decline and recovery?
  Professor Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford)

Friday 23 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - The transformative art of kissing frogs
  Tim Smit (The Eden Project)

Friday 8 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Soil Ecology from the microbe’s eye view - Edith Hammer
  Edith Hammer (Lund University)

Tuesday 12 March 2024 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - AmazonFlux: disentangling biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship through an energy flux perspective
  Ana Carolina Antunes

Friday 15 March 2024 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Building collaborations with Indigenous and Local Communities using Extreme Citizen Science
  Jerome Lewis (University College London)

Friday 12 April 2024 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Bending the curves – balancing nature, economy and society, from the bottom up
  David Obura (IPBES)