User:Manxshearwater

Hi, I am user Manxshearwater (she/her) ! Welcome to my page. I am a biology student and currently an intern at the University of Oxford's Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science.

Internship with ICCS (June 2024-)
Since June 2024, I have been on 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 project is set to end in August 2024. Please reach out (via my talk page or email) with questions or suggestions.

So that I may afford to participate in this project, I am 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.

Project achievements

 * 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.
 * Creation of a nature-positive article.
 * Further expansion and development continues in my sandbox.
 * Improvement of the Wiktionary entry for nature-positive.

Ongoing work

 * Expansion of nature-positive article and introduction of links to other pages where relevant or already mentioned
 * Expansion of biodiversity offsetting (see sandbox: User:Manxshearwater/biodiversityoffsetting, N.B. this does not reflect the full extent of my ongoing research into this topic)
 * Introduction of a mitigation hierarchy article (in development)
 * Improvement of the biodiversity banking article
 * See: User:Manxshearwater/biodiversitybanking
 * Improvement of articles that focus on mitigation banking and no net loss wetlands policy in the United States

Future aims

 * Introduction of emerging biodiversity policy terms to Wiktionary
 * Addition of an overall no net loss policy page to reflect its global extent beyond the United States
 * See sandbox: User:Manxshearwater/nonetloss
 * Collaborate with other Wikipedians to ensure that any articles created are translated into other languages, and expand the language provision of existing policy articles
 * Improve the categorisation of biodiversity pages and ensure links between pages