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16 Dec 2022: Brett Wilson's love of wild tulips has taken him to some of the most spectacular places in Central Asia, where he discovered a new species in Toktogul, Kyrgyzstan. His work has helped to uncover the plight of 53 tulips which have been added to the

7 Jul 2022: Search site. Conservation Research Institute. Diane L. Lister. You can see the full profile for Dr Diane Lister here.. Name:. Diane L. Lister. Member for. 1 year 11 months. The David Attenborough Building. Pembroke Street. Cambridge. CB2 3QZ. 2024

18 Aug 2022: Conservation Communication: Engaging audiences through magazines Facilitated by Dr Caitlin Kight, science communicator and Associate Editor of Current Conservation.

20 Dec 2022: A new conservation guide launched to protect European seabirds at risk from climate change, by the CRI's Silviu Petrovan, Bill Sutherland and Nigel Taylor, in collaboration with the ZSL (The Zoological Society of London).

14 Sep 2022: The EngBio Postdocs group meets once per month to help support postdocs at the university interested in interdisciplinary working across the areas of biology, engineering, computer science, design and bioethics.

29 Nov 2022: CCI Conservation Seminar Series - check out our updated programme for Autumn 2022/Spring 2023.

30 Sep 2022: The CCI Conservation Seminars begin on 5th October 2022 and will happen every fortnight during term. Our first speaker, Dr Bernardo Strassburg, will talk about his venture re.green. Join us in the Main Seminar Room at 4 pm. Drinks will follow

30 Sep 2022: The CCI Conservation Seminars begin on 5th October 2022 and will happen every fortnight during term. Our first speaker, Dr Bernardo Strassburg, will talk about his venture re.green. Join us in the Main Seminar Room at 4 pm. Drinks will follow

12 Sep 2022: How to take the right approach to storytelling and documentary development in order to give your research-based documentary the best possible chances of reaching a wide audience.

29 Nov 2022: A new grant from the EU’s ‘Starting Grants’ scheme awarded to Adam Pelligrini, will fund studies to improve carbon credit schemes in dryland areas by boosting our grasp of the effects of periodic fire events on carbon capture and storage.

20 Sep 2022: Hosted in the Masters in Conservation Leadership Teaching Room on the Third Floor of the East Podium Join us to find out more about the first completed Sansom Conservation Leadership Alumni Fund project ‘Conservation ActionLAB’, an innovative

18 Nov 2022: Pathogen spillover: Lessons learned from bat viruses Prof. Raina Plowright, Cornell University Wed 30th November, 4 pm in the Main Seminar Room, DAB Bats are hosts of human pathogens that have pandemic potential, including coronaviruses,

15 Feb 2022: The Cambridge Conservation Research Institute, in collaboration with Cambridge Zero and Cambridge Conservation Initiative partners, has been awarded £10 million in funding by NERC to create a new Centre for Landscape Regeneration.

30 Sep 2022: Dr Bernardo Strassburg, International Institute for Sustainability, Brazil Re.green: from science to large-scale restoration implementation – and back again After a decade of research, including collaboration with multiple CCI partners, Dr.

17 Nov 2022: Plant hunters have discovered a new and unusual species of tulip during an expedition to Kyrgyzstan. DNA testing at a Cambridge University laboratory has established it was "something completely different".

27 Oct 2022: Wed 2nd Nov at 4 pm in the Main Seminar Room Dr Freya St John from Bangor University - 'Understanding compliance for fair conservation.': Urgency to save species from extinction has prompted increased focus on law enforcement in conservation,

17 Nov 2022: New evidence suggests that REDD+ projects in the tropics have helped reduce deforestation, particularly in regions of rapid land use change Tropical deforestation and degradation are significant contributors to global greenhouse gas emissions.

7 Sep 2022: We are delighted to offer our congratulations to Professor Bill Sutherland who has been awarded Honorary Membership of the British Ecological Society.

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

9 Dec 2022: The University of Cambridge has signed a nature positive pledge as a founding member of the global Nature Positive Universities network formed in conjunction with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The CRI's Prof.

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.

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.

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

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.

18 Aug 2022: PhD students and postdocs are invited to a briefing session for an Ideation Workshop for Healthy Eco-systems planned for 9 September 2022 from 11.00 to 12.00 online. The Ideation event is a creative, cross disciplinary, facilitated workshop to

20 Sep 2022: Masters in Conservation Leadership Applications for October 2023 entry and scholarships now open Masters in Conservation Leadership The Cambridge Masters in Conservation Leadership is a ground-breaking course that equips students with the applied

28 Oct 2022: More companies must make and implement zero-deforestation supply chain commitments in order to significantly reduce deforestation and protect diverse ecosystems, say researchers. Zero-deforestation pledges are a great first step, but they need to be

8 Dec 2022: Creating river stories together Dr Stephanie Januchowski-Hartley and Dr Daphne Giannoulatou, Swansea University What is or could be the language of rivers? In this talk we share examples from children, teachers, poets, scientists and others who