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World Cities Day 2024: Embracing Biodiversity and Youth-Led Action for a Greener Future

As we celebrate World Cities Day on October 31, 2024, we at Biodiverse Cities are proud to join the global conversation on sustainable urbanisation.  By: Sol Gustafsson & Caitlin Ball - Bax...

Biodiversity in the Green City: Exploring Växjö's Initiatives

The Biodiverse Cities project landed in Växjö for the fifth partner meeting, following Carl Linnaeus’s footsteps through the Småland landscape. During the meeting, we took a closer look at Växjö’s pilots and learned about the cities’ work with greening urban planning processes....

Becoming a Biodiverse Lille: insights from local initiatives

The city of Lille hosted the 4th Partner meeting of the Biodiverse Cities project. This was a great opportunity for the international group to learn and get inspired by the biodiversity-ambitious French city!...

Snoring Bees and Other Hidden Wonders: Mapping 10,000 Species in Dordrecht

Dordrecht, a Dutch city with a rich historical background and vibrant natural spaces, is on an ambitious mission to document 10,000 species within its boundaries. This initiative, driven by a recognition of biodiversity’s importance and the urgent need to understand it better, aims to shine a light...

Co-Creation & Citizen Science with School Kids in Bremen-Gröpelingen

Biodiverse Cities connects people to nature and nature to people. Employing co-creation approaches such as participatory methods of urban development can effectively incorporate public desires and needs for recreation, nature and leisure into urban planning. Similarly, citizen science initiatives ca...

Växjö's Telestadshöjden Wetland Restoration

Växjö Municipality's work to restore the Telestadshöjden Wetland has been featured in the special water edition of the CitiesWithNature BUZZ newsletter....

Fostering Biodiversity and Nature-Inclusive Communities in Bremen

From November 7th to November 9th, Bremen’s Senatorin für Umwelt, Klima und Wissenschaft (SUKW) and Bremer Umwelt-Beratung (BUB) hosted our Biodiverse Cities team for the third partner meeting. ...

Growing Green Communities: How Citizen Engagement is Shaping Biodiverse Cities

Diana Gerritsma leads marketing and communications at Het Vogelnest, a community centre based in the Vogelbuurt neighbourhood of Dordrecht. In this interview, she dives into the value of citizen engagement and offers guidance on working with communities for greening and biodiversity initiatives.&nbs...

Co-creating natural spaces in Aarhus with Biodiverse Cities

How will Aarhus’s Vilhelmsborg look in three years? Will there be trees, a stream, a bird-watching tower and some frogs leaping around?...