Biodiversity & Nature

Wildlife corridors, green/brown roofs and walls, urban landscaping, urban tree planting, water stewardship, grey water systems, species and habitat conservation, sustainable drainage systems, restored and reimagined ecosystems and more…

Your latest biodiversity and nature stories

Fat Fox Mushrooms

Sharing our love for the fungi kingdom and educating people on fungi’s sustainable uses.

Haringey
  • Biodiversity loss
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Biodiversity & Nature
  • Land Use, Food & Agriculture

High Hirst Woodmeadow Project

Boosting biodiversity, reducing flood risks and capturing carbon with the creation of a woodmeadow.

Calderdale
  • Biodiversity loss
  • Carbon emissions
  • Flooding & drought
  • Biodiversity & Nature
  • Land Use, Food & Agriculture

Eden Project

Inspiring citizenship over consumption through education, in order to care for this planet.

Cornwall
  • Biodiversity loss
  • Carbon emissions
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Biodiversity & Nature
  • Land Use, Food & Agriculture

GoodGym

Combining doing good in the community with staying healthy.

Windsor and Maidenhead
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Biodiversity & Nature
  • Circular Economy
  • Land Use, Food & Agriculture

Greening Communities

Transforming wastelands on social housing estates into new community gardens.

Tower Hamlets
  • Food security & supply
  • Greater fairness
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Biodiversity & Nature
  • Built Environment
  • Land Use, Food & Agriculture

UrbanScape

Building a community garden to reduce fly tipping.

Liverpool
  • Biodiversity loss
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Waste
  • Biodiversity & Nature
  • Built Environment
  • Land Use, Food & Agriculture

Think big locally

Why Biodiversity & Nature?

Healthy ecosystems underlie all aspects of our wellbeing, either directly or indirectly. We cannot live in towns and cities independently of nature: our dependency on nature enables us to live in towns and cities. We need to think differently about the role of biodiversity within our lives, and go beyond traditional ideas of conserving nature in remote locations. Ingenious new approaches are required locally to alleviate the pressures of urban living by integrating nature into the heart of our built environment. The benefits to our personal health and local communities are too big to ignore.

From Seed To Solar

Find out how Energy Garden has grown community energy and pride by mixing biodiversity, train stations, volunteers’ imagination and solar power.

All biodiversity and nature initiatives

Naturehood

Reversing wildlife decline by empowering communities to take positive action.

Oxford
  • Biodiversity loss
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Biodiversity & Nature

Greenisland Allotment Gardens

Promoting wellbeing and food security through more sustainable, local cultivation.

Mid and East Antrim
  • Biodiversity loss
  • Food security & supply
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Biodiversity & Nature
  • Land Use, Food & Agriculture

Greening Stevenson Square

Planting trees and making green roofs to revive, cool and protect urban areas.

Manchester
  • Biodiversity loss
  • Carbon emissions
  • Flooding & drought
  • Biodiversity & Nature
  • Built Environment

The Living Coast Rain Gardens

Greening urban infrastructure to adapt better to flood risks and improve water quality.

Brighton and Hove
  • Biodiversity loss
  • Flooding & drought
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Biodiversity & Nature
  • Land Use, Food & Agriculture

Seagrass Ocean Rescue

Restoring seagrass meadows off the Welsh coast to combat climate change and biodiversity loss.

Pembrokeshire
  • Biodiversity loss
  • Carbon emissions
  • Biodiversity & Nature

Energy Garden

Equipping local people to build greener spaces around public transport.

Lambeth
  • Air pollution
  • Carbon emissions
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Biodiversity & Nature
  • Energy
  • Land Use, Food & Agriculture

Pollinator Parks

Rewilding business and retail parks throughout the North of England.

Sunderland
  • Biodiversity loss
  • Biodiversity & Nature
  • Land Use, Food & Agriculture

Bathscape Landscape Partnership

Revitalising Bath's landscape for people, communities and heritage

Bath and North East Somerset
  • Biodiversity loss
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Biodiversity & Nature
  • Land Use, Food & Agriculture

The Natural Curriculum Hub, Liverpool John Moores University

Promoting the use of Forest School and outdoor learning approaches.

Liverpool
  • Biodiversity loss
  • Excessive consumption
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Biodiversity & Nature

Planting Healthy Air In Schools

Redesigning playground areas using green infrastructure to improve air quality.

Tower Hamlets
  • Air pollution
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Biodiversity & Nature
  • Built Environment

Edible Playgrounds

Offering an engaging, multi-sensory way to teach children about growing and eating healthy food.

Lambeth
  • Food security & supply
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Biodiversity & Nature

New Beckton Park community orchard

Providing a local resource for wildlife, education and an annual harvest of fruits and nuts!

Newham
  • Biodiversity loss
  • Food security & supply
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Biodiversity & Nature
  • Land Use, Food & Agriculture
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