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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

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

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.

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,

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.