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29 Jan 2021: Last year, we announced a brand new, exciting festival for Cambridge, which will replace the hugely popular Cambridge Science Festival and the Cambridge Festival of Ideas. The Cambridge Festival will host an extensive series of free, online events

4 Jun 2021: Cambridge World Ocean Day Event – Tues 8th June, 1 – 2.30 pm London (BST). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

2 Nov 2021: Grant Writing Workshop - Professor Bhaskar Vira Professor Vira will provide an overview for those of you thinking about writing grant applications or wanting to prepare yourself for when the time comes.

7 Jan 2021: Last month the Endangered Landscapes Artist Residencies and Arts Prize was launched. The prize will be administered by the Endangered Landscapes Programme (ELP) and CCI’s Arts, Science and Conservation Programme (ASCP).

15 Nov 2021: Join us at 11am in the Common Room, David Attenborough Building for cake, coffee and conversation. Catch up with colleagues and meet members of the CRI network sat within the shared space. We look forward to seeing you there!

14 Jun 2021: the predictability of changes in microbial community composition due to evolution, based on his recent paper on Nature Communications.

25 Oct 2021: Join us at 11am in the Common Room, David Attenborough Building for cake, coffee and conversation. Catch up with old colleagues and meet the members of the CRI network set to sit within the shared space. We look forward to seeing you there!

15 Mar 2021: Title: Demographic trade-offs predict tropical forest dynamics Link: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaz4797 The paper is centred around a specific forest model built on forests in Panama, but more general discussions on tropical tree functional

22 Feb 2021: In the UK, the signs of spring are beginning to show, offering new hope for the year ahead. The days are getting longer, the snowdrops are out and buds are showing on the trees. So, we’ve chosen ‘signs of spring’ as the theme for our next CCI

21 Jan 2021: For our next journal club meet the CSG will be discussing whether eating invasive species might be a good or bad idea for conservation.

1 Jun 2021: Join Professor Seeley, emeritus professor of biology from Cornell University who is a ‘god’ amongst beekeepers all over the world! He wrote the book ‘Honeybee Democracy’.

11 Mar 2021: We are delighted to share your CCI Strategy 2021–2030 with you. As part of the CCI community you have been part of the process of internal and external consultation to guide this document and to identify the steps that are needed to deliver our

26 Feb 2021: The Call for Submissions for Climate Exp0 has been extended to 10 March 2021.

2 Nov 2021: Writing for the Guardian - Phoebe Weston This workshop will focus on how researchers can communicate with the media, what stories we're interested in, how to communicate them and how not to communicate them.

28 Jun 2021: CCI Priority Area Project CCI have identified four priority areas which will form the focus of their efforts over the next ten years. They are consulting the whole CCI community to gather ideas for projects which can address these areas. As such we

2 Nov 2021: Career Pathways This workshop will discuss how skills learned during your PhD can help plan your next career step. Get advice on seeking funding & applying for jobs. Discuss if you unsure whether to pursue an academic career or enter a different

1 Nov 2021: Join us at 11am in the Common Room, David Attenborough Building for cake, coffee and conversation. Catch up with old colleagues and meet the new members of the CRI network set to sit within the shared space. We look forward to seeing you there!

1 Feb 2021: This series of four workshops is designed to help participants learn about stress and anxiety and begin to think about their own experiences.

11 Oct 2021: Join us at 11am in the Common Room, David Attenborough Building for cake, coffee and conversation. Catch up with old colleagues and meet the new members of the CRI network set to sit within the shared space. We look forward to seeing you there!

15 Jan 2021: Please refer to recent messages from the Vice-Chancellor, the Pro-Vice-Chancellors, and your Heads of Department for the latest rules and guidance of working during the current lockdown.

20 Sep 2021: Thursday Networking Morning's are back! Join us at 11am in the Common Room, David Attenborough Building for cake, coffee and conversation. Catch up with old colleagues and meet the new members of the CRI network set to sit within the shared space.

1 Feb 2021: The Disability Resource Centre at the University of Cambridge is now recruiting mentors to work with disabled students. The closing date is Monday 15 February, 3pm. To find out more, including details of how to apply and the role description, please

18 Mar 2021: Bees on the Verge: are roadsides a pollinator paradise or a potential problem? PhD student Claire Wallace investigates the benefits and drawbacks of making our roadsides more pollinator-friendly.

22 Feb 2021: His current and recent projects explore the impact of digital on-demand mobile work on cities; how automation is changing workplaces; and how households respond to mobile work practices.

3 Mar 2021: A challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we're all responsible for our own thoughts and actions - all day, every day. We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality. We can all choose to seek out and celebrate women

29 Jan 2021: Making the People’s Landscape: Landscape Ideals, Collective Labour and the People’s Parks (Folkets Parker) Movement in Sweden, 1890-Present Don Mitchell, Uppsala University Zoom Link:

10 Feb 2021: Professor David Coomes - Nature Based Solutions This week, David will discuss Nature Based Solutions. David leads a research group that is actively engaged in addressing these issues, as well as tackling more fundamental ecological questions.

22 Nov 2021: The Endangered Landscapes Programme is delighted to announce the artists selected for the Endangered Landscapes Artist Residencies.

3 Feb 2021: How to Fight Inequality Ben Phillips, NYU Ben Phillips is the author of How to Fight Inequality. He has combined the roles of NGO director, political advisor, civil society activist, and writer. He has lived and worked in four continents and

5 Jul 2021: You may remember that Zoë Svendsen of Metis Arts enjoyed a residency with Cambridge Conservation Initiative in 2018-2019, where work was developed for the projects We know not what we may be (Barbican 2018) and Factory of the Future (Oslo 2019).

26 Feb 2021: Planning for residential ‘value’? Urban densification policies and real estate impacts in London About the Speakers Dr Nicola Livingstone is Associate Professor in Real Estate at the Bartlett School of Planning (UCL).

21 Jun 2021: Conservation Seminar: Natural regeneration of tropical forests: a cost-effective nature-based solution for conservation and restoration This week's conservation seminar is presented by Prof Robin Chazdon from the University of the Sunshine Coast.

26 Mar 2021: Welcome to Saving species and celebrate how people around the world are bringing species back from the brink: Lessons from the dodo: saving species and rebuilding ecosystems, Reversing the Red, Making waves for ocean conservation, Butterflies as

19 Jul 2021: Bronwyn Claire (Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership) discusses the climate change risk and resilience measures the UK should be considering on BBC Radio 4 (starts 33m 55s)

5 Jul 2021: The first talk in a series of three on 'Refreezing the Arctic'.

22 Nov 2021: Dr Tedd Moya Mose Oxford Martin Fellow, Oxford Martin School Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy, University of Oxford Globalising Energy Law Aims and Principles; Localising Action The Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy, and Natural

29 Jan 2021: Senior Conservation Director, Joanna Elliott from Fauna & Flora International will be joining us this Thursday from 11 – 11.45 am. Background Jo has been Senior Director of FFI’s Conservation Partnerships Department since 2013.

2 Nov 2021: Capacity Building in Conservation - Freedom Kai Philips This workshop will review projects covered within climate and biodiversity legal assessment and capacity building to identify pathways to put your research into action.

16 Apr 2021: During this zoom webinar, African Managers of citizen science projects will talk about the importance of citizen science in Africa and discuss how their projects can help conservation.

18 Oct 2021: The third online talk in the Cambridge Natural History Society autumn programme for 2021 is "Restoring habitat for the Iberian Lynx" Harriet Allen, from the Department of Geography, will talk about a project to restore habitat for the Iberian ly

1 Nov 2021: Join us to hear Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, CEO of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to present the progress of the GEF8 replenishment, his view of the COPs (Biodiversity and Climate), and his advice to the CCI Partnership.

15 Nov 2021: Professor Karoline Rogge Professor of Sustainability Innovation and Policy, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex | Deputy Head CC Policy and Society, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI Policy mixes promoting

15 Mar 2021: Amelia Hood "Indonesian Oil Palm plantations: management of biodiversity and eco-systems" Zoom Details: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85859730240 Meeting ID: 858 5973 0240 Passcode: 564953

3 Feb 2021: Search site. Conservation Research Institute. Thursday Networking Morning. This Thursday, Dr Nancy Ockendon will discuss The Endangered Landscapes Programme and the recent call for applications for its Advancing and Applying Knowledge

26 Mar 2021: Welcome to Hope for our planet where TV and radio presenter, Liz Bonnin will discuss environmental issues and how to solve the planetary crisis before In conversation with Sir David Attenborough. After their discussion, Sir David will be answering

10 May 2021: As part of their Building a better chemistry culture series, the Royal Society of Chemistry are hosting a webinar focusing on this year's #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek (10-16 May) theme: access to nature and the impact it can have on our mental

25 Oct 2021: Please join us this Wednesday 27 October at 3pm on Zoom (note the change of day this week, i.e.

5 Oct 2021: The Future of Nature Conservation and the Wildlife Trusts' 30:30:30 Vision Brian Eversham, Chief Executive of The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire, will outline new approaches to conservation and the aim of

3 Mar 2021: ‘What can academic geography learn from Black geographies and Black organising? And how can we avoid co-optation?’ With Dr. Pat Noxolo (University of Birmingham) Pat will discuss this question alongside a panel of students from the Geography

2 Nov 2021: Introduction to Public Engagement - Dr Lucinda Spokes Participants of this course will gain an overview of public engagement and techniques to plan engagement.