New Nature Connected Organisations Handbook launched
The Nature Connectedness Research Group have announced the release of a new resource for businesses and other organisations: The Nature Connected Organisations Handbook: A guide for connecting organisations with nature for sustainable futures and workplace wellbeing. The background context for this handbook, is shared in this Finding Nature guest blog (2 [...]
Beyond Access: Uniting Human and Nature’s Wellbeing
This blog post (12 September 2023) by Prof. Miles Richardson in Finding Nature, explores the links between nature visits, connection, local access and pro-environmental behaviours. Findings suggest that noticing and a close connection with nature are more strongly associated with different aspects of wellbeing, but also pro-nature and environmental behaviours.
Measuring nature connection in nature-based programmes
A number of outdoor programmes try and discover out if this has positively influenced participants' connection to nature. Alexia Barrable has been involved in the following: This review aims to offer an overview of the interventions identified, provide a snapshot of the current state of the literature, briefly present themes [...]
Trust supports new nature connectedness research methods
The John Muir Trust report on workshop held in November 2022, to explore how Scotland’s outdoor learning practitioners understand the formation of nature connectedness in children and young people.
Are we closer to trees than our neighbours?
This Finding Nature post (24 July 2023) reports early findings from the Connected Treescapes‘ project: Trees are our closest neighbours This is fascinating, although the author points out that the results perhaps reflect a ‘shifting baseline’ in our perception of nature.
Would you like to become a Green Earth School in academic year 23/24?
In this Green Earth Schools programme, Earthwatch offer to collaborate with schools to create the optimal nature features for their grounds to support outdoor learning. Earthwatch aim to help students build a strong connection to nature and use their voices to drive solutions-based approaches to environmental challenges. These skills and experiences are essential in [...]
Children have a skewed view of the natural world – but it doesn’t have to be that way
This article in the Conversation (13 July 2023) reports the survey results of a large group of children. They were asked to draw a picture of their local park or garden, and to label all the animals they thought lived there. Their drawings reflected a bias towards larger more charismatic [...]
Nature Connectedness: what it is, why it matters & how to improve it – IUCN ECWG webinar
Is humanity losing its connection with nature? Watch and listen to this webinar delivered by Professor Miles Richardson. “Nature connectedness captures that relationship between people and the rest of nature. Nature connectedness is a measurable psychological construct that moves beyond contact with nature to an individual’s sense of their relationship with [...]
