Hi, I am user Manxshearwater (she/her) ! Welcome to my page. I am a biology student at the University of Oxford and previously an intern at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science between June and August of 2024.
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This user attends University of Oxford (, Biology faculty)
I completed an internship programme with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science at the University of Oxford to examine and improve articles on Wikipedia that focus on biodiversity policy, such as biodiversity offsetting policies and no net loss policies. The covered two months between June and August 2024. Please reach out (via my talk page or email) with any questions on the project.
So that I could afford to participate in the project, I was provided with a Crankstart bursary to cover my living expenses. This is provided by the University's Crankstart Internship Programme because I am a Crankstart Scholar at the University. I do not receive payment from the ICCS.
Expansion of glossary of environmental science to include the terms biodiversity banking, biodiversity credit, biodiversity offset, no net loss, nature positive, mitigation hierarchy, and environmental impact assessment.
Updated sections on 'Requirement to offset biodiversity' and 'Offsetting in the UK' within the biodiversity offsetting article to reflect the global extent of policy requirements and terms used. Addition of sections on terminology and critique.
Improvement of the Economics of biodiversity article to fix issue of lack of references and expansion to describe the economic importance of biodiversity in greater depth.
Expansion of the biodiversity banking article to include a section that discusses terminology and addition of a section on Colombia's habitat banks as another example of a country where this system has been implemented.
Submitted a draft for a worldwide "no net loss" policy article.
Improvement of the mitigation banking article to clarify the relationship of the concept with related ideas, including biodiversity offsetting and broader forms of biodiversity banking.
Updated the environmental mitigation article to reflect a more international view of environmental mitigation measures, beyond just the United States and covered important related topics like the mitigation hierarchy.
