Protecting Biodiversity Requires More Than Environmental Policy: Five Directions for Systemic Change
What makes biodiversity policy genuinely transformative?
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From an App to Action: How Citizen Science Can Change Our Relationship with Nature
Can a biodiversity app change how communities relate to nature? Through the Coventry-Warwickshire-Solihull City Nature Challenge, DAISY explores how digital citizen science, education and community engagement could contribute to wider transformation for biodiversity.
Mapping a Living Landscape: How Citizen Science Can Become Biodiversity Infrastructure
In Utrecht, around 65 volunteers are mapping an entire agricultural landscape. DAISY explores how citizen science, digital technology and governance can work together to turn landscape monitoring into infrastructure for biodiversity action.
SPARK4B+ Project Kicks Off to Advance Biodiversity-Positive and Just Futures
Coventry, UK — A new Horizon Europe research project, SPARK4B+, officially launched on 1 September 2026 to turn credible alternatives to growth-oriented socio-economic models into practical pathways for policymakers, businesses and communities. Backed by nearly €7 million over four years, the project brings together 18 partner organisations from nine countries across Europe and Latin America. The consortium will meet in Coventry, UK, on 8 September for its kick-off meeting.
Why Fixing One Thing Rarely Fixes the System: Inside DAISY’s Transformative Intervention Mixes
Biodiversity loss is not caused by a single failure, so it is unlikely to be solved by a single fix.
Collecting the Seeds of Transformative Change: What’s Inside DAISY’s Seeds Database
Somewhere out there, a community energy cooperative, a participatory land-use scheme or a small agroecology initiative is already proving that biodiversity and social equity can move forward together.
Leading a Transformative Change Project? Don’t Start From Scratch, and Help the Next Person Skip a Step Too
If you’re managing or leading a project that aims to shift a system, whether for biodiversity, equity, or both, you already know that the hardest part isn’t finding one good intervention. It’s knowing which combination of interventions will actually hold together in your context, rather than working against each other or stalling once the funding highlight reel ends.
Explore DAISY’s transformative change project database
What if you didn’t have to build transformative change from scratch? Learn from 50+ real-world intervention mixes and explore, compare, learn. Build your own intervention mix for biodiversity & equity.
