Summer 2025 Newsflash

It’s hard to believe that three weeks have already passed since the end of the Landscape Ecology UK 2025 conference in Edinburgh. Over 80 delegates joined for three days of talks, discussion, networking and field visits, focusing on monitoring and evidencing change at the landscape scale. We are particularly pleased that a high proportion of presenters were from outside of academia, with a broad range of disciplines and organisations from all corners of the UK and beyond represented. The images at the end of this newsflash give a small taste of the atmosphere in the conference room at Edinburgh Climate Change Institute (whose generous support helped make the conference possible) and field excursions to Carrifran Wildwood and Lauriston Farm. We’ll have more in-depth reflections on the conference in the next full edition of our newsletter, once everyone has had sufficient time to digest all that we heard and discussed and to follow up on new ideas and connections. Watch out for that after the summer – in the meantime we hope everyone is able to find time in the coming weeks to relax and recharge, perhaps in a favourite landscape somewhere.

Landscape Ecology UK is the UK chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, whose next European congress is coming up on September 2nd – 5th in Bratislava. There’s just about still time to register by the July 31st deadline: https://iale2025.sav.sk/. Read more about the conference and other activities in the recent IALE Europe summer newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/c750696d85f3/iale-europe-newsletter-summer-2025

We’d also like to flag up an initiative from Cristian Echeverria, Isabel Loupa Ramos, Marcin Spyra, and Werner Rolf which aims to improve the teaching of landscape ecology. They are conducting a short questionnaire to gather experiences and insights from educators around the world with the aim of improving how landscape: follow this link to participate. The survey is part of a broader study under the umbrella of the IALE and was initiated after a joint discussion at the previous IALE 2023 World Congress in Kenya. Outcomes will feed into discussions at the IALE 2025 European Landscape Ecology Congress, taking place in Bratislava, specifically in the session “Education and Teaching Perspectives in a Rapidly Changing World.”

On that note our ‘Landscape Learning’ pages are one of the key features of our new website launched earlier this year: https://www.landscape-ecology.uk/landscape-learning. We’d be delighted to receive feedback if you’ve used these pages in teaching or have any suggestions for additional content that would be useful.

Landscape Ecology UK Committee