Exeter launches new partnership with National Trust

Manon Martini Online Arts & Lit Editor

THE University of Exeter is currently working alongside the National Trust to manage national landscapes and their declining biodiversity. In the face of climate change and environmental anxiety, the collaboration will allow for university experts to have their environmental research put to practice beyond the confines of the academic sphere. Current projects include the five-year RENEW program which adopts a ‘people-in-nature’ approach towards major environmental challenges.

Exploring the interconnected dynamic between people and nature, the program will support biodiversity renewal through a reshaping of individual environmental understanding with the hopes that an intimate commitment to education will positively impact wider communities and national institutions. Another project currently taking place under the collaborative program is the ‘Landscape Histories for Landscape Futures’ project.

This historical and archeological exhortation will pioneer humanitarian approaches towards nature recovery and restoration. Ultimately, the program’s achievements will reflect the heart of the collaboration between the University and the National Trust — a public and personal engagement with people concerning issues of biodiversity towards an improved notion of land management and conservation.