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NR3 go to the Lake District
Samuel Joyce, 5th January 2026 I’m in the first cohort of students studying MSc. Nature Restoration, Recovery and Rewilding at the University of Manchester. Last month we went on a residential field trip, visiting nature positive projects in the Lake District National Park. We went to see and learn from organisations delivering nature recovery at a landscape scale, and to put the first semester’s learning into a place-based context. It rained almost non-stop, but we weren’t p
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Jan 54 min read


Towards a Wilder Anthropocene: co-existence and the emotional politics of rewilding
The cultural memory of co-existence has not endured in South Tyrol's land management, as a long gap followed the extirpation of top predators like the wolf, which largely disappeared from the region during the 1920s and shaped the culture of land management.
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Aug 20, 20255 min read


Guest Blog: An Ecological Citizenry
Matt Buckler, 9th January 2025 Picture this, it’s June 1992 and a 10 year old girl, let’s call her Sarah, hears a high pitched sound when...
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Jan 9, 20255 min read


The recipe for NR3
You may well be interested to know more about what our degree contains and why. This blog is intended specifically for that purpose, but...
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Nov 29, 202410 min read


Our new degree upskilling graduates in transformative change for nature
A Q&A with the MSc NR3 Co-Directors - Dr. Anna Gilchrist and Dr. Ian Thornhill Why is now the right time to introduce this MSc? Humanity...
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Mar 19, 20245 min read
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