Embracing the power of wild places to improve wellbeing
Wildlife and Countryside Link: People and the Natural Environment
Published: 9 Jul 2021
Dom Higgins, Head of Health and Education at The Wildlife Trusts and co-chair of Link's Nature and Wellbeing Strategy Group, explains the critical partnership between nature and people.
Wild and Well: Nature for Health - the best medicine
Published: 8 Jul 2021
Stephen Wiseman from Nature 4 Health explains how Nature Walks for Wellbeing help people to define what staying well or being happy means for them.
Blue Health: sea-kayaking the Outer Hebrides
Published: 8 Jul 2021
This research explores how experiencing the wild seascapes of the Outer Hebrides by sea-kayak provides and engages different forms of vitality and wellbeing than non-wild places.
The impact of nature on children’s wellbeing
Published: 30 Jun 2021
This research investigates how children felt they benefited from participating in outdoor activities, such as identifying plants and trees and considering the needs of different wildlife habitats.
The relationship between biodiversity and human health
Published: 30 Jun 2021
This RSPB research investigates whether more biodiversity gives us a greater wellbeing benefit; and which components of biodiversity have the greatest wellbeing benefit.
Green Exercise Research
Published: 30 Jun 2021
The Green Exercise Research Team at the University of Essex has been researching the concept of Green Exercise for 17 years, including exercise physiology, health and wellbeing, environmental sustainability, community engagement, and behaviour change.
Nature's role in supporting health during the pandemic
Published: 30 Jun 2021
This study explores nature's role in supporting health during the pandemic and found that respondents spent more time in nature and visited nature more often.
Exercise in nature
Published: 30 Jun 2021
Spending at least 120 minutes a week in nature is associated with good health and wellbeing
Participating in nature conservation
Published: 30 Jun 2021
This document is a summary of research, drawn together on behalf of the Wildlife Trusts, which show that participating in nature conservation had a positive impact on participants with low levels of mental wellbeing.
Green prescribing
Published: 30 Jun 2021
A Dose of Nature: Addressing chronic health conditions by using the environment
Urban green spaces and health
Published: 30 Jun 2021
This report (by the World Health Organisation in 2016) includes a summary of evidence of the beneficial effects of urban green spaces
Wild and Well: Evidence and emotion
Published: 30 Jun 2021
Kevin Lelland, the Trust’s Head of Development and Communications, shares why the Trust is calling for help to create a hub of detailed knowledge and information on why wild places matter for the health of individuals, communities and society.