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23 Nov 2022: Best Before: balancing food safety and food waste How much food is wasted because of the way it is labelled? Global Food Security IRC (Cambridge University) According to the UN, if food waste were a country, it would be the third-largest contributor

4 Nov 2022: Jair Bolsonaro has been toppled from government in Brazil, which has led to the rejoicing of environmentalists and scientists in South America and beyond. In the Conversation, the UCCRI's Prof. Rachael Garrett explores what Lula's election means for

17 Oct 2022: Previously, he was a broadcaster for 20 years, mostly as a BBC Television, Radio and Online News Correspondent.

6 Dec 2022: Ecologists at the Conservation Research Institute have developed a new method of mapping early successional species in tropical forests using Unoccupied Ariel Vehicles (UAVs) to generate reference crown images with attached GPS, a system that will

16 Dec 2022: CCI Conservation Seminar, WEDNESDAY 1st February 2023, 4 - 5 pm COP15 - What next? Four eight minute talks, then an audience discussion followed by a one sentence conclusion from panel member.

16 Dec 2022: CCI Conservation Seminar, Monday 20th February 2023, 4 to 5 pm Ashish Kothari, Kalpavriksh Environmental Action Group, Puna, India.

20 Sep 2022: Conservation on a wing and a prayer, or following the evidence? Andrew Bladon is the lead author of the Butterfly and Moth synopsis.

10 Oct 2022: In this talk, I will describe recent advances in protein design using both approaches.

5 Sep 2022: Lynn Dicks has been awarded The British Ecological Society’s Ecological Engagement Award. This award recognises Lynn’s outstanding work bridging the gap between ecologists and other groups, particularly her work with the farming community.

10 Oct 2022: On Wed 12 October, from 12:00 to 13:00, the China Forum at Jesus College is hosting a virtual seminar entitled 'China biodiversity and conservation: status, challenges and opportunities' that will no doubt be of interest to a number of UCCRI members.

21 Oct 2022: A Cambridge team frustrated by the apathetic response to biodiversity loss has developed a dramatic new way to highlight the demise of nature – and people are listening.

5 Sep 2022: The DAAD-University of Cambridge Research Hub for German Studies is proud to present the third in an annual series of lectures in conjunction with the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) presenting the work of their

14 Dec 2022: We are delighted to share our newly released open access book: Transforming Conservation: A practical Guide to Evidence and Decision Making, Edited by William Sutherland Download for free: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0321

23 Nov 2022: CCI Seminar and book launch: 'Transforming Conservation' Main Seminar Room, David Attenborough Building, Pembroke St Cambridge Six ten minute talks.

1 Nov 2022: By scrutinising over a century’s worth of photos, University of Cambridge researchers have made the first ever measurements that show rhinoceros horns have gradually decreased in size over time.

14 Sep 2022: When Charles Darwin encountered live platypuses and other Australian mammals, he claimed that – compared to the rest of the world’s animals – they were so strange that one might think “two distinct Creators must have been at work”.

9 Dec 2022: The UN Convention on Biological Diversity secretariat and the University of Cambridge signed a Memorandum of Understanding on day two of COP15, which recognises that the CCI Masters in Conservation Leadership course hosted by the Department of

6 Dec 2022: CCI Conservation Seminar, MONDAY 16th January 2023 Prof Stuart Pimm, Duke University 16 January, 4 to 5 pm, DAB Main Seminar Room Title - The 30% solution is neither necessary nor sufficient At COP 15, nations considered the aspirations for the next

6 Dec 2022: CCI Conservation Seminar, WEDNESDAY 18th January 2023 Prof David Ackerly, University of California, Berkeley Title: Plant diversity, climate change, and conservation: The view from California California hosts a diverse flora, with approximately 50%

20 Dec 2022: Study of farmer preferences shows that turning whole areas of farmland into habitats comes with half the price tag of integrating nature into productive farmland, if biodiversity and carbon targets are to be met.