The University of Lincoln has a commitment to manage and protect the biodiversity assets on our estate which encompasses three campus locations within Lincolnshire. Brayford, which is the city centre host for the conference as well as Riseholme Park just a few miles north of the city and Holbeach in south Lincolnshire. Our Riseholme Park Campus is set in the countryside with grounds that have established woodland and wildlife.

With multiple campus-wide projects, an app for biodiversity alongside strategies and policies to support the University community and wider to positively impact the environment; sustainability is a core part of our business at the University.

We are also proud to be one of the founding universities of the Nature Positive Alliance and are committed to the maintenance and development of its natural spaces, including looking after biodiversity. The Nature Positive Universities Alliance, led by Oxford University and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is a global network of universities that have made the pledge to work towards a nature-positive goal to halt, prevent and reverse nature loss by addressing their own impacts and restoring ecosystems harmed by their activities.