The Lake District: In pursuit of purple
As we left the car park and headed towards the dark crags in the distance, I asked what we were looking for. “Purple saxifrage” Lee replied. “It’s a creeping plant …
Navigating Georgia’s complex political ecology in the Chachuna Managed Reserve
We’ve driven across rolling green hills for the past two hours and have yet to see a single person, a pattern that has continued for the last two days. I’m …
The Greater Côa Valley: how rural architecture can help build a future for nature
By David Thomas With griffon vultures soaring overhead, the warm air thick with the scent of rosemary, chamomile, lavender and wild thyme, and free-roaming horses drinking in the shade of …
Eight landscapes for life announced!
Eight projects will provide a powerful demonstration of nature’s powers of recovery, and of the benefits to be won from restoring biodiversity and natural ecosystem processes to Europe’s landscapes. The …
Restoring marine ecosystems in south western Turkey: an interview with Zafer Kizilkaya
Zafer Kizilkaya is the President and co-founder of Akdeniz Koruma Dernegi, an NGO which aims to conserve natural habitats and restore degraded coastal ecosystems in Turkey. Recipient of a Whitely …
Programme Assistant, Endangered Landscapes Programme
The Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) is a unique collaboration between the University of Cambridge and leading biodiversity conservation organisations in and around Cambridge. The CCI partners together combine and integrate …
Making Space for Nature – past, present and future. A talk by Professor Sir John Lawton
Professor Sir John Lawton is chair of the Endangered Landscapes Programme’s Oversight and Selection Panel. Sir John has played a major part in promoting UK-wide wildlife conservation, leading the ‘Lawton …
What do we need to know to achieve Europe’s restoration targets?
A paper published today in the journal Biological Conservation identifies 100 questions that, if answered, would make a significant difference to the restoration of Europe’s terrestrial and marine environments. The …
Evidence-based restoration – launching a new tool
Restoration is not easy to achieve. To put back habitats where they have been lost, recreate functioning ecosystems, and attract key species to return takes a lot of hard work, …
Six voices on landscape restoration in Europe
Overall, across the European Union, 37% of terrestrial and freshwater habitats have been assessed as Vulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered. Mires and bogs, grasslands, freshwaters and coastal habitats in particular …