Webinar: studying biodiversity gains across the education estate
The National Education Nature Park programme is supporting global biodiversity research. Watch back our webinar to find out how!
Aimed at organisations in science research, biodiversity, natural environment, conservation or policy sectors, in this webinar the science lead and Postdoctoral Researchers from the Natural History Museum working on the National Education Nature Park spoke about how the programme is gathering habitat and biodiversity data from school, college and nursery sites across England to measure and evidence biodiversity gains as young people implement habitat enhancements on their learning sites.
We introduce the community science research methods and how Nature Park data align with wider UK schemes. We also introduce our meta-analysis of published literature on nature recovery impacts and how these data are informing predictions of likely biodiversity gains to complement the community science research.
This webinar took place on Wednesday 23 July, 15.30-16.00.
Check out the published protocol which outlines the steps we're taking in Nature Park research to ensure transparent, objective and repeatable scientific methods. It covers how we'll do the literature searches for studies on nature interventions, and how we'll do the statistical analyses. By publishing it like this, we help mitigate against researcher bias and ensure we create the most robust, accurate estimates of the impact that nature interventions have on biodiversity.