MSc Nature Recovery, Restoration and Rewilding

This MSc equips you with the expertise to tackle the biodiversity crisis and its wider challenges, from climate change to human health and wellbeing. You’ll gain the skills, knowledge and global best practice needed to design and deliver solutions that restore ecosystems and transform humanity’s relationship with nature. Through small-group learning and hands-on fieldwork in uplands, wetlands and forests, you’ll explore practical restoration techniques that repair natural processes and help ecosystems recover from human impact. You’ll develop a ‘toolbox’ of methods to support nature recovery; not just to limit harm, but to actively benefit biodiversity with applications across sectors such as agriculture and urban development. You’ll also delve into the theory and practice of rewilding, an ambitious approach that gives nature more independence by reintroducing key species and restoring large areas. Drawing on case studies from around the world, you’ll critically assess the advantages and challenges of different restoration approaches, building the practical and analytical skills to shape more resilient and sustainable environments.