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.
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Internship with ICCS (June 2024-)
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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
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- 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.
- Creation of a nature-positive article.
- 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.
- Addition of "biodiversity offset" to Wiktionary
- 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.
- Expansion of nature positive article and introduction of links to other pages where relevant or already mentioned
- Planned introduction of a mitigation hierarchy article (in development)
- Improvement of the biodiversity banking article. See: User:Manxshearwater/biodiversitybanking
- Improvement of mitigation banking article. See: User:Manxshearwater/mitigationbanking
- Improvement of environmental mitigation article. See User:Manxshearwater/environmentalmitigation
- Working on an article for no net loss policies worldwide since the current article focuses solely on the United States. See User:Manxshearwater/nonetloss
- Improve the categorisation of biodiversity pages and ensure links between pages
- Collaborate with other Wikipedians to ensure that any articles created are translated into other languages, and expand the language provision of existing policy articles
- Analysis of page views and their changes over time
