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4 Oct 2021: Recycle, Reuse and Relax! We wish you a good fresh start of the term and hope to see many of you coming back to the DAB. We are organizing a tidy up session this Friday the 8th of October at 4:45 pm, followed by a Happy Hour in the common room.

22 Nov 2021: Coffee Break Seminars is a relaxed online learning and discussion platform for our food security community. This seminar was held on 26 November at 3pm, GMT.

8 Mar 2021: CCI Collaborative Fund 2021 – call for applications We are delighted to announce that this year’s call for applications to the CCI Collaborative Fund is now open. CCI Partners are invited to submit applications for the CCI Collaborative Fund for

2 Nov 2021: British Antarctic Survey This workshop will talk about what the BAS polar data centre dataset does, the data that is available and go into detail about some of the biodiversity and biological long term monitoring data that are held.

6 Sep 2021: Despite our best efforts, most of us are likely to experience failure at some point. While nobody likes to fail, how we deal with failure can make an enormous difference to our eventual results.

7 Jun 2021: Ocean+ Habitats 2021 Launch at 1300 BST on World Ocean’s Day (Tuesday 8th June 2021) streamed live via YouTube and Facebook.

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).

22 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 members of the CRI network sat within the shared space. We look forward to seeing you there!

26 Jul 2021: EIT Food is a lead sponsor for the New Scientist Live ‘Creating a Sustainable Future’ event taking place on 25 September 2021.

5 May 2021: Catalonia and Scotland are two cases that perfectly illustrate this: two European stateless nations where recent political turmoil is still altering what it is to be Catalan or Scottish.

26 Mar 2021: Welcome to Making space for nature where speakers will discuss the ambitious new initiatives aiming to restore natural habitats across the country: Lessons from transforming UK landscapes for wildlife and people, Recovering India's megafauna,

4 May 2021: “The Green Transition in Natural Resources” When: 17th May 2021, 3-4 pm UK time (via Zoom) Where: https://zoom.us/j/99383670292?pwd=WHZlaktrRHVpSTd0a3lKTFlhRm9zdz09 Panel Members: Pippa Howard (Flora and Fauna International) and Andy Whitmore

15 Mar 2021: Join the Curator of the University Herbarium, Dr Lauren Gardiner, on a virtual behind-the-scenes tour of one of Cambridge’s least-known collections, a treasure trove of over a million preserved plant specimens collected from all over the world

19 Mar 2021: How to Use iRecord Right now there are thousands of dedicated volunteers around the world collecting data that is contributing to scientific research. They are called citizen scientists and in the world of wildlife conservation, they are true heroes.

26 Mar 2021: Welcome to Choosing sustainability and join speakers as they share their views on why we should all choose sustainability: Reducing an organisation’s footprint, Bringing peatlands back to life in Belarus, Ocean optimism in a sea of plastic,

26 Mar 2021: Welcome to Innovating for conservation where speakers share inspiring stories that show how conservation can succeed through creativity and innovation: Activating new wildlife enthusiasts via games, Forest to furniture: a sustainable journey in home

18 Feb 2021: Karla Zambrano PhD Researcher, University of Valencia | C-EENRG Visiting Researcher Climate refugees: The big challenge of Public International Law and the European Union Register Here

1 Jun 2021: Join us for this Thursday's networking morning at 11am where we will be joined by PhD Student, Fleur Nash, who is currently in Kenya doing fieldwork.

8 Feb 2021: “Leadership is arguably the most important attribute in the tool kit of a conservation biologist”. Dietz et al, 2004 Successful and high-achieving conservation biologists often find themselves in leadership roles within projects and organisations

13 Jan 2021: Search site. Conservation Research Institute. CCI Seminar Series 2020 - 2021. Submitted by Carmyn de Jonge on Wed, 13/01/2021 - 15:21. The David Attenborough Building. Pembroke Street. Cambridge. CB2 3QZ. 2024 University of Cambridge.

22 Nov 2021: We are delighted to welcome Tom who will be talking about ‘Situating mental health within the nature-climate-wellbeing triple challenge: Evidence from rural Uganda’. Ecological change poses new and significant threats to human health, such as

12 Apr 2021: Cambridge Public Health Conference – 18 May 2021 This event is aimed at introducing new research and innovations focusing on supporting young people’s mental health, with an impressive programme of speakers and contributors who seek to influence

19 Apr 2021: On the eve of Earth Day, the latest in Synchronicity Earth’s Deeper Thinking Series, chaired by Synchronicity Earth founders Jessica and Adam Sweidan, explores how our understanding of flourishing diversity, informed by indigenous knowledge,

3 Feb 2021: His most recent book is Monopsony Capitalism Power and Production in the Twilight of the Sweatshop Age (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

1 Nov 2021: Join us to hear Warren Evans of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Carlos Manuel Rodriguez (GEF) in discussion about Birdlife International's East Asian Australasian Flyway Initiative. You can also join online here:

15 Mar 2021: Join the Curator of the University Herbarium, Dr Lauren Gardiner, to learn how you can contribute to this exciting and new-for-Cambridge citizen science project.

20 Sep 2021: The University of Cambridge’s Indigenous Studies Discussion Group (CRASSH Network 2021–22) and Heritage and Colonialism Discussion Group are seeking a speaker to participate in an in-person panel on Decolonizing Rights to Natural Heritage and

24 May 2021: Kate Howlett, a PhD student at the Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, will talk about her research into the importance of green space in UK primary schools.

14 Jun 2021: We typically assume that recent times have seen biodiversity loss everywhere.

22 Mar 2021: Welcome to our exciting morning of Citizen Science on Saturday 27th March from 10am - 12pm. This is an exciting way for you to contribute to conservation in the UK from the comfort of your home.

30 Sep 2021: Thursday 9th December, 4:00-5:00pm Please note the change of day Dr Eyal Frank - University of Chicago The social costs of keystone species collapse: Evidence from the decline of vultures in India When the patent for a painkiller expired in 1993,

15 Mar 2021: This talk and behind-the-scenes view will discuss and cast light on botanical practices in 18th century Cambridge, with a focus on Professor of Botany Thomas Martyn (1735–1825), whose surviving books and plant specimens are being rediscovered at

7 Sep 2021: Applications are now open for the Masters in Conservation Leadership 2022-23! Please find a flyer attached with all the key information. The deadline for applications is the 2nd December 2021.

26 Apr 2021: Developing and applying quantitative, interdisciplinary science to understand the human dimensions of conservation We are joined for this week's seminar by Dr Robin Naidoo from WWF.

14 Jun 2021: When: 1 – 2pm, Wednesday 16 June Meeting ID: 115 814 437 Password: 022424 Speaker: Thalassa McMurdo Hamilton, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London & Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, UCL.

27 Jan 2021: Biodiversity is declining faster than at any time in human history. Since 1970, there has been on average almost a 70% decline in the populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians.

30 Sep 2021: Professor Naomi Oreskes - Harvard University Why trust science? Livestream: David Attenborough Building - Main Seminar Room

25 Jan 2021: The Sussex Energy Group Keynote Lecture is an annual event hosted by one of the largest independent social science energy policy research groups in the world.

24 May 2021: recent paper on natural climate solutions’ contributions to negative emissions in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment.

25 Jan 2021: When Symptoms Don't Stop Treating those most severely affected by COVID-19 has necessarily taken priority during the pandemic. But could long COVID be the next wave of the crisis? In late April 2020 Dr Freya Jephcott developed a persistently high

13 Jan 2021: This week's seminar will be presented by Dr Michelle Jackson from the University of Oxford. Dr Jackson's research interest lies in understanding individual-to-ecosystem level responses to environmental change, including warming, invasion, pollution

19 Apr 2021: Bioabundance’ is in rapid decline, with recent studies showing that insects in particular seem to be disappearing fast. ... For example, recent evidence from Germany found that the biomass of flying insects fell by 76 per cent in the last 26 years.

1 Feb 2021: Her most recent focus has been staff working on the Covid front line.

1 Jun 2021: This week, Prof Milind Tambe from Harvard University presents the conservation seminar.

30 Apr 2021: This week we will be joined by Professor Anne Saab, Graduate from the Institute of International and Development Studies Global WarNing where she will discuss: Discourses of Fear in International Climate Change Law. Register here...

8 Mar 2021: We are delighted to announce that this year’s call for applications to the CCI Collaborative Fund is now open. CCI Partners are invited to submit applications for the CCI Collaborative Fund for Conservation, for collaborative projects.

18 Oct 2021: The Dingy Skipper (Erynnis tages) is a specialist butterfly species with a large distribution range across Britain and Ireland. However, population numbers have dropped by over 60% since the 1970s, making the Dingy Skipper a priority species in the

4 Mar 2021: This week, CEENRG will be joined by Dr Sabrina Eisenbarth from the University of Exeter Business School. Register Here

21 Apr 2021: This is of significant concern as recent developments suggest parasites and diseases are highly prevalent and have contributed to several mass population‐level die‐offs.

26 Jul 2021: In our upcoming Tuesday group meeting we will be discussing two Global Change Biology papers on soil carbon dynamics that came out earlier this week, Mitchell et al. (2021) and O'Bryan et al. (2021), linked below.