🧵2/2 Through 4 principles — pluralising, empowering, politicising & embedding — the film brings together lessons from herders, forest owners, regenerative farming, schoolyards, rivers and nature-inclusive building.
What does transformative change look like in practice? 🌱
#BIOTraCes #Biodiversity
What does transformative change look like in practice? 🌱
#BIOTraCes #Biodiversity
November 5, 2026 at 8:03 AM
🧵2/2 Through 4 principles — pluralising, empowering, politicising & embedding — the film brings together lessons from herders, forest owners, regenerative farming, schoolyards, rivers and nature-inclusive building.
What does transformative change look like in practice? 🌱
#BIOTraCes #Biodiversity
What does transformative change look like in practice? 🌱
#BIOTraCes #Biodiversity
🌿 What if some of the change we need is already happening?
Our final BIOTraCes film explores how communities across Europe are already experimenting with new ways to protect biodiversity and rethink how people live with nature.
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Our final BIOTraCes film explores how communities across Europe are already experimenting with new ways to protect biodiversity and rethink how people live with nature.
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November 5, 2026 at 8:03 AM
🌿 What if some of the change we need is already happening?
Our final BIOTraCes film explores how communities across Europe are already experimenting with new ways to protect biodiversity and rethink how people live with nature.
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Our final BIOTraCes film explores how communities across Europe are already experimenting with new ways to protect biodiversity and rethink how people live with nature.
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📖 Can stories help create transformative change?
Across BIOTraCes, we found that facts alone are not always enough.
Stories can make complex issues tangible, connect people to places and struggles, and help us imagine that things could be different. 🌿🧵1/3
Across BIOTraCes, we found that facts alone are not always enough.
Stories can make complex issues tangible, connect people to places and struggles, and help us imagine that things could be different. 🌿🧵1/3
November 3, 2026 at 9:02 AM
📖 Can stories help create transformative change?
Across BIOTraCes, we found that facts alone are not always enough.
Stories can make complex issues tangible, connect people to places and struggles, and help us imagine that things could be different. 🌿🧵1/3
Across BIOTraCes, we found that facts alone are not always enough.
Stories can make complex issues tangible, connect people to places and struggles, and help us imagine that things could be different. 🌿🧵1/3
🎤 Speaker spotlight: Katarina Haugen
What do local biodiversity initiatives need from policy?
Katarina will present the 7 BIOTraCes policy recommendations for enabling transformative change.
📅 3 Nov | 14:00 CET | Online
👉 https://f.mtr.cool/hmesggh7ae
#BIOTraCes #Biodiversity
What do local biodiversity initiatives need from policy?
Katarina will present the 7 BIOTraCes policy recommendations for enabling transformative change.
📅 3 Nov | 14:00 CET | Online
👉 https://f.mtr.cool/hmesggh7ae
#BIOTraCes #Biodiversity
October 30, 2026 at 8:02 AM
🎤 Speaker spotlight: Katarina Haugen
What do local biodiversity initiatives need from policy?
Katarina will present the 7 BIOTraCes policy recommendations for enabling transformative change.
📅 3 Nov | 14:00 CET | Online
👉 https://f.mtr.cool/hmesggh7ae
#BIOTraCes #Biodiversity
What do local biodiversity initiatives need from policy?
Katarina will present the 7 BIOTraCes policy recommendations for enabling transformative change.
📅 3 Nov | 14:00 CET | Online
👉 https://f.mtr.cool/hmesggh7ae
#BIOTraCes #Biodiversity
🎤 Speaker spotlight: Marie Stenseke
How can local biodiversity experiences inform European policy?
Marie will bring lessons from BIOTraCes’ 9 case studies across Europe into the discussion.
📅 3 Nov | 14:00 CET | Online
👉 https://f.mtr.cool/g3q27sw4io
#BIOTraCes #TransformativeChange
How can local biodiversity experiences inform European policy?
Marie will bring lessons from BIOTraCes’ 9 case studies across Europe into the discussion.
📅 3 Nov | 14:00 CET | Online
👉 https://f.mtr.cool/g3q27sw4io
#BIOTraCes #TransformativeChange
October 29, 2026 at 8:02 AM
🎤 Speaker spotlight: Marie Stenseke
How can local biodiversity experiences inform European policy?
Marie will bring lessons from BIOTraCes’ 9 case studies across Europe into the discussion.
📅 3 Nov | 14:00 CET | Online
👉 https://f.mtr.cool/g3q27sw4io
#BIOTraCes #TransformativeChange
How can local biodiversity experiences inform European policy?
Marie will bring lessons from BIOTraCes’ 9 case studies across Europe into the discussion.
📅 3 Nov | 14:00 CET | Online
👉 https://f.mtr.cool/g3q27sw4io
#BIOTraCes #TransformativeChange
🌿 What can you expect from our BIOTraCes policy webinar on 3 Nov?
✅ 7 recommendations for transformative change
🌍 Lessons from 9 case studies across Europe
💬 Q&A with BIOTraCes researchers & stakeholders
🕑 14:00 CET | Online
👉 Register: https://f.mtr.cool/tze61jhzzu
✅ 7 recommendations for transformative change
🌍 Lessons from 9 case studies across Europe
💬 Q&A with BIOTraCes researchers & stakeholders
🕑 14:00 CET | Online
👉 Register: https://f.mtr.cool/tze61jhzzu
October 22, 2026 at 7:30 AM
🌿 What can you expect from our BIOTraCes policy webinar on 3 Nov?
✅ 7 recommendations for transformative change
🌍 Lessons from 9 case studies across Europe
💬 Q&A with BIOTraCes researchers & stakeholders
🕑 14:00 CET | Online
👉 Register: https://f.mtr.cool/tze61jhzzu
✅ 7 recommendations for transformative change
🌍 Lessons from 9 case studies across Europe
💬 Q&A with BIOTraCes researchers & stakeholders
🕑 14:00 CET | Online
👉 Register: https://f.mtr.cool/tze61jhzzu
🥣 What is the recipe for transformative change?
The short answer: there isn’t just one.
Across 9 BIOTraCes cases, we found common ingredients — but how they come together depends on the people, place, history & challenges involved. 🌿🧵1/3
The short answer: there isn’t just one.
Across 9 BIOTraCes cases, we found common ingredients — but how they come together depends on the people, place, history & challenges involved. 🌿🧵1/3
October 20, 2026 at 7:01 AM
🥣 What is the recipe for transformative change?
The short answer: there isn’t just one.
Across 9 BIOTraCes cases, we found common ingredients — but how they come together depends on the people, place, history & challenges involved. 🌿🧵1/3
The short answer: there isn’t just one.
Across 9 BIOTraCes cases, we found common ingredients — but how they come together depends on the people, place, history & challenges involved. 🌿🧵1/3
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Across BIOTraCes, this process starts from real places, struggles and people already working towards biodiversity and justice.
📘 Explore the handbook:
https://f.mtr.cool/ffqgxa2gw1
#BIOTraCes #TransformativeChange
Across BIOTraCes, this process starts from real places, struggles and people already working towards biodiversity and justice.
📘 Explore the handbook:
https://f.mtr.cool/ffqgxa2gw1
#BIOTraCes #TransformativeChange
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October 6, 2026 at 8:02 AM
🧵3/3
Across BIOTraCes, this process starts from real places, struggles and people already working towards biodiversity and justice.
📘 Explore the handbook:
https://f.mtr.cool/ffqgxa2gw1
#BIOTraCes #TransformativeChange
Across BIOTraCes, this process starts from real places, struggles and people already working towards biodiversity and justice.
📘 Explore the handbook:
https://f.mtr.cool/ffqgxa2gw1
#BIOTraCes #TransformativeChange
🔄 Analyse. Imagine. Act.
Our BIOTraCes handbook shows transformative change not as a fixed blueprint, but as an ongoing movement between understanding problems, imagining alternatives and putting them into practice. 🌿🧵1/3
Our BIOTraCes handbook shows transformative change not as a fixed blueprint, but as an ongoing movement between understanding problems, imagining alternatives and putting them into practice. 🌿🧵1/3
October 6, 2026 at 8:02 AM
🔄 Analyse. Imagine. Act.
Our BIOTraCes handbook shows transformative change not as a fixed blueprint, but as an ongoing movement between understanding problems, imagining alternatives and putting them into practice. 🌿🧵1/3
Our BIOTraCes handbook shows transformative change not as a fixed blueprint, but as an ongoing movement between understanding problems, imagining alternatives and putting them into practice. 🌿🧵1/3
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And running through all four strategies? Storytelling — helping people connect, imagine alternatives and build momentum for change.
📘 Read Storying Transformative Change:
https://f.mtr.cool/ybeimekd4z
#BIOTraCes #Biodiversity
And running through all four strategies? Storytelling — helping people connect, imagine alternatives and build momentum for change.
📘 Read Storying Transformative Change:
https://f.mtr.cool/ybeimekd4z
#BIOTraCes #Biodiversity
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September 22, 2026 at 8:03 AM
🧵3/3
And running through all four strategies? Storytelling — helping people connect, imagine alternatives and build momentum for change.
📘 Read Storying Transformative Change:
https://f.mtr.cool/ybeimekd4z
#BIOTraCes #Biodiversity
And running through all four strategies? Storytelling — helping people connect, imagine alternatives and build momentum for change.
📘 Read Storying Transformative Change:
https://f.mtr.cool/ybeimekd4z
#BIOTraCes #Biodiversity
🌿 How can bottom-up initiatives drive transformative change for biodiversity? 🧵1/3
Our BIOTraCes handbook identifies 4 strategies that appeared across very different local contexts:
🌱 Pluralising
💪 Empowering
📣 Politicising
🔗 Embedding
Our BIOTraCes handbook identifies 4 strategies that appeared across very different local contexts:
🌱 Pluralising
💪 Empowering
📣 Politicising
🔗 Embedding
September 22, 2026 at 8:03 AM
🌿 How can bottom-up initiatives drive transformative change for biodiversity? 🧵1/3
Our BIOTraCes handbook identifies 4 strategies that appeared across very different local contexts:
🌱 Pluralising
💪 Empowering
📣 Politicising
🔗 Embedding
Our BIOTraCes handbook identifies 4 strategies that appeared across very different local contexts:
🌱 Pluralising
💪 Empowering
📣 Politicising
🔗 Embedding
🌿 Why does biodiversity matter for businesses?
Our final BIOTraCes factsheet draws on 9 cases across 8 European countries to show how healthy ecosystems support sustainable farming, tourism, local food economies and new business models. 🧵1/2
#BIOTraCes #Biodiversity
Our final BIOTraCes factsheet draws on 9 cases across 8 European countries to show how healthy ecosystems support sustainable farming, tourism, local food economies and new business models. 🧵1/2
#BIOTraCes #Biodiversity
September 16, 2026 at 8:03 AM
🌿 Why does biodiversity matter for businesses?
Our final BIOTraCes factsheet draws on 9 cases across 8 European countries to show how healthy ecosystems support sustainable farming, tourism, local food economies and new business models. 🧵1/2
#BIOTraCes #Biodiversity
Our final BIOTraCes factsheet draws on 9 cases across 8 European countries to show how healthy ecosystems support sustainable farming, tourism, local food economies and new business models. 🧵1/2
#BIOTraCes #Biodiversity
Biodiversity loss is about more than species, it’s about power, decisions and how we live. 🌍
The BIOTraCes Handbook highlights four strategies for transformative change 🧵1/2
🌱 Pluralising
🤝 Empowering
⚖️ Politicising
🔗 Embedding
📖 Read: https://f.mtr.cool/13eiudjujn
The BIOTraCes Handbook highlights four strategies for transformative change 🧵1/2
🌱 Pluralising
🤝 Empowering
⚖️ Politicising
🔗 Embedding
📖 Read: https://f.mtr.cool/13eiudjujn
August 27, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Biodiversity loss is about more than species, it’s about power, decisions and how we live. 🌍
The BIOTraCes Handbook highlights four strategies for transformative change 🧵1/2
🌱 Pluralising
🤝 Empowering
⚖️ Politicising
🔗 Embedding
📖 Read: https://f.mtr.cool/13eiudjujn
The BIOTraCes Handbook highlights four strategies for transformative change 🧵1/2
🌱 Pluralising
🤝 Empowering
⚖️ Politicising
🔗 Embedding
📖 Read: https://f.mtr.cool/13eiudjujn
🌾 Traditional herders are more than livestock farmers.
In our new BIOTraCes video from Hungary, we meet herders, ecologists & nature protection experts working to keep pastoralism alive and protect biodiversity-rich grasslands.
In our new BIOTraCes video from Hungary, we meet herders, ecologists & nature protection experts working to keep pastoralism alive and protect biodiversity-rich grasslands.
August 19, 2026 at 7:02 AM
🌾 Traditional herders are more than livestock farmers.
In our new BIOTraCes video from Hungary, we meet herders, ecologists & nature protection experts working to keep pastoralism alive and protect biodiversity-rich grasslands.
In our new BIOTraCes video from Hungary, we meet herders, ecologists & nature protection experts working to keep pastoralism alive and protect biodiversity-rich grasslands.
🍃Transformative Change projects convene! 🌍
9 projects (BAMBOO, #Bionext, #BioTraCes, #CircHive, #BioAgora, #DAISY, #PLANET4B, #TransPath, #TC4BE) funded under the @horizoneu.bsky.social programme Transformative Change Cluster met in Brussels, on 4–5 June 2026.
tinyurl.com/mpcshr64
9 projects (BAMBOO, #Bionext, #BioTraCes, #CircHive, #BioAgora, #DAISY, #PLANET4B, #TransPath, #TC4BE) funded under the @horizoneu.bsky.social programme Transformative Change Cluster met in Brussels, on 4–5 June 2026.
tinyurl.com/mpcshr64
Transformative Change projects convene in Brussels - My Daisy
Nine transformative change projects funded under the Horizon Europe programme Transformative Change Cluster met in Brussels, Belgium, on 4–5 June 2026 to discuss their tools, results and recommendatio...
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June 15, 2026 at 10:11 AM
🍃Transformative Change projects convene! 🌍
9 projects (BAMBOO, #Bionext, #BioTraCes, #CircHive, #BioAgora, #DAISY, #PLANET4B, #TransPath, #TC4BE) funded under the @horizoneu.bsky.social programme Transformative Change Cluster met in Brussels, on 4–5 June 2026.
tinyurl.com/mpcshr64
9 projects (BAMBOO, #Bionext, #BioTraCes, #CircHive, #BioAgora, #DAISY, #PLANET4B, #TransPath, #TC4BE) funded under the @horizoneu.bsky.social programme Transformative Change Cluster met in Brussels, on 4–5 June 2026.
tinyurl.com/mpcshr64
On #WomenInSTEMDay, we celebrate women herders 🌿
Their ecological knowledge sustains species-rich grasslands and biodiversity, even if it’s rarely recognised as STEM.
At BIOTraCes, we work with women herders as equal knowledge holders.
#WomenInScience #Biodiversity #IDWGS2026
Their ecological knowledge sustains species-rich grasslands and biodiversity, even if it’s rarely recognised as STEM.
At BIOTraCes, we work with women herders as equal knowledge holders.
#WomenInScience #Biodiversity #IDWGS2026
February 11, 2026 at 8:02 AM
On #WomenInSTEMDay, we celebrate women herders 🌿
Their ecological knowledge sustains species-rich grasslands and biodiversity, even if it’s rarely recognised as STEM.
At BIOTraCes, we work with women herders as equal knowledge holders.
#WomenInScience #Biodiversity #IDWGS2026
Their ecological knowledge sustains species-rich grasslands and biodiversity, even if it’s rarely recognised as STEM.
At BIOTraCes, we work with women herders as equal knowledge holders.
#WomenInScience #Biodiversity #IDWGS2026
Wonderful time today with the UT BioTraCes and RURBAN team visiting CascoLand at the Fruittuin van Moerkerken, Amsterdam. Really good to see what a difference informal community engagement and food sharing practices can make.
www.biotraces.eu
www.biotraces.eu
October 13, 2023 at 3:02 PM
Wonderful time today with the UT BioTraCes and RURBAN team visiting CascoLand at the Fruittuin van Moerkerken, Amsterdam. Really good to see what a difference informal community engagement and food sharing practices can make.
www.biotraces.eu
www.biotraces.eu
"We must delve deeper to address not just the symptoms of these problems but also their underlying causes, (...)” --Esther Turnhout, Univ Twente
#NaturePositive
#BeyondGrowth
#JusticeForNature
#PowerToCommunities
#BiodiversityCounts
#FutureProofEurope
#NaturePositive
#BeyondGrowth
#JusticeForNature
#PowerToCommunities
#BiodiversityCounts
#FutureProofEurope
A Local Approach to Reversing Biodiversity Loss in Europe
The EU-funded project BIOTraCes tackles the root causes of biodiversity loss, emphasizing equity and justice for both people and the planet.
earth.org
May 31, 2025 at 6:29 AM
"We must delve deeper to address not just the symptoms of these problems but also their underlying causes, (...)” --Esther Turnhout, Univ Twente
#NaturePositive
#BeyondGrowth
#JusticeForNature
#PowerToCommunities
#BiodiversityCounts
#FutureProofEurope
#NaturePositive
#BeyondGrowth
#JusticeForNature
#PowerToCommunities
#BiodiversityCounts
#FutureProofEurope
🌍 How do the #SDGs unfold in real biodiversity contexts?
Across BIOTraCes’ 9 case studies, the goals take on different meanings depending on local realities — from rivers and grasslands to cities and food systems.
Global goals need local grounding. 🌿
📄 More: https://f.mtr.cool/ycxrutairp
Across BIOTraCes’ 9 case studies, the goals take on different meanings depending on local realities — from rivers and grasslands to cities and food systems.
Global goals need local grounding. 🌿
📄 More: https://f.mtr.cool/ycxrutairp
August 4, 2026 at 7:05 AM
🌍 How do the #SDGs unfold in real biodiversity contexts?
Across BIOTraCes’ 9 case studies, the goals take on different meanings depending on local realities — from rivers and grasslands to cities and food systems.
Global goals need local grounding. 🌿
📄 More: https://f.mtr.cool/ycxrutairp
Across BIOTraCes’ 9 case studies, the goals take on different meanings depending on local realities — from rivers and grasslands to cities and food systems.
Global goals need local grounding. 🌿
📄 More: https://f.mtr.cool/ycxrutairp
🌱 Can empathy help restore degraded landscapes?
A new study from the BIOTraCes community explores how empathy, collective care, and participatory planning can support more sustainable futures.
📖 https://f.mtr.cool/tfasenkbot
A new study from the BIOTraCes community explores how empathy, collective care, and participatory planning can support more sustainable futures.
📖 https://f.mtr.cool/tfasenkbot
July 28, 2026 at 7:19 AM
🌱 Can empathy help restore degraded landscapes?
A new study from the BIOTraCes community explores how empathy, collective care, and participatory planning can support more sustainable futures.
📖 https://f.mtr.cool/tfasenkbot
A new study from the BIOTraCes community explores how empathy, collective care, and participatory planning can support more sustainable futures.
📖 https://f.mtr.cool/tfasenkbot
How does BIOTraCes bring transformative change towards a just and nature positive society to life?
The factsheet below represents two important layers of transformativeness at BIOTraCes
1) its contribution to transformative change
2) its practice of working in transformative ways
The factsheet below represents two important layers of transformativeness at BIOTraCes
1) its contribution to transformative change
2) its practice of working in transformative ways
July 23, 2026 at 7:17 AM
How does BIOTraCes bring transformative change towards a just and nature positive society to life?
The factsheet below represents two important layers of transformativeness at BIOTraCes
1) its contribution to transformative change
2) its practice of working in transformative ways
The factsheet below represents two important layers of transformativeness at BIOTraCes
1) its contribution to transformative change
2) its practice of working in transformative ways
BIOTraCes believes in the concept of Transformative Change; and it also believes in its four core principles, the PEPE:
- Politicising
- Empowering
- Pluralising
- Embedding
Want to learn how this works in practice? Check out our factsheet or learn more on our website!
- Politicising
- Empowering
- Pluralising
- Embedding
Want to learn how this works in practice? Check out our factsheet or learn more on our website!
July 16, 2026 at 7:10 AM
BIOTraCes believes in the concept of Transformative Change; and it also believes in its four core principles, the PEPE:
- Politicising
- Empowering
- Pluralising
- Embedding
Want to learn how this works in practice? Check out our factsheet or learn more on our website!
- Politicising
- Empowering
- Pluralising
- Embedding
Want to learn how this works in practice? Check out our factsheet or learn more on our website!
Many voices are being overheard in biodiversity research.
BIOTraCes researchers aim for a more inclusive and just way of knowledge gathering; providing more space for valuable knowledge sources that are being ignored too often.
Check out our factsheet to learn more!
BIOTraCes researchers aim for a more inclusive and just way of knowledge gathering; providing more space for valuable knowledge sources that are being ignored too often.
Check out our factsheet to learn more!
July 2, 2026 at 7:06 AM
Many voices are being overheard in biodiversity research.
BIOTraCes researchers aim for a more inclusive and just way of knowledge gathering; providing more space for valuable knowledge sources that are being ignored too often.
Check out our factsheet to learn more!
BIOTraCes researchers aim for a more inclusive and just way of knowledge gathering; providing more space for valuable knowledge sources that are being ignored too often.
Check out our factsheet to learn more!
Day 2 of #TransformativeChange4Biodiversity: from exploring pathways to turning knowledge into action. BIOTraCes contributed to synthesis & policy dialogue on building governance that truly supports local biodiversity innovation. 🌿
June 25, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Day 2 of #TransformativeChange4Biodiversity: from exploring pathways to turning knowledge into action. BIOTraCes contributed to synthesis & policy dialogue on building governance that truly supports local biodiversity innovation. 🌿