Undertaking prescribed activities in nature for wellbeing is only half of the answer ~ the type of outdoor environment available is the other half.

Natural spaces allow us to escape; they afford novel opportunities to smell, hear and feel something different from the places where we live, work and play.

Nature provides a restorative environment that can help individuals recover from stress and mental fatigue and shift an individual’s experience to a more positive one. It is encouraging that concepts such as biophilic and biomimicry design are becoming common practice. 

Nature-positive is the term that is being increasingly used to describe a world where nature - its species and ecosystems - are being regenerated instead of being in perpetual decline. A nature-positive society is one in which a cycle of reciprocity exists between people and nature - that is, the actions of people regenerate nature, which in turn promotes the health of people. 

A nature-positive economy is one in which businesses, governments and others take action at scale to minimise and remove the drivers and pressures fuelling the degradation of nature, to actively improve the state of nature itself.