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Nature-based Solutions

As the climate crisis deepens, we are becoming more aware of just how badly we have failed to respect our most precious asset: nature. We depend entirely on it for our food, our air, our water and our shelter, and yet, we have been neglecting and exploiting nature for decades, even centuries. Nature-based solutions (NbS) promise to redress the balance by restoring habitats and ecosystems.

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Alice Ritchie

Advantage champion

Alice Ritchie is the Climate Change and Water Lead at the leading membership organisation for farmers and landowners in the UK, representing 30,000 members who own or manage 10 million acres – over half the rural land in England and Wales. She advises members and the UK and Welsh governments on reaching net-zero, flood and drought resilience, nature-based solutions and water management and quality, influencing how these topics fit with post-Brexit agriculture policy. Alice previously worked for the Ministry for Primary Industries in New Zealand on climate change, agriculture and forestry and is in the final year of an M. Sc in Global Food Security from the University of Edinburgh.

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The world is facing two massive, interlinked crises – biodiversity loss and climate change and…

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The Conservation Estate

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Healing our Markets with Better Facts

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Conservation on Private Land is More Common than You Think

March 22, 2021
The QEII National Trust is a long-standing, well-respected contributor to habitat conservation in Aotearoa New…

Haere taka mua, taka muri. Kaua e whai

March 22, 2021
How will New Zealand look in 100 years, and what will its citizens value most?…

Big Read: Catalyzing Investment in Native Forests and World-Class Forestry in Aotearoa New Zealand

March 22, 2021
New Zealand’s native forests have the potential to be world-class, producing timber sustainably and conferring…

Is There Business Case for Native Forestry?

March 22, 2021
A conventional business case, as typically used to assist many investment or management decisions, is…

Quantifying Multi-purpose Indigenous Forest Management in NZ

March 19, 2021
Woodside Forest, North Canterbury, is one of the few commercial New Zealand forests with a…

Valuing Native Forest on Private Land

March 19, 2021
Our very survival is dependent on the natural world – we all need food, clean…

Te Uru Rākau Forest Industry Transformation Plan

March 19, 2021
The Government is planning for a low carbon future in which the forestry and wood…

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