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 Geography plays a crucial role in conservation capacity building.
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.
Volunteers surveying dormice and bats in trees have made the unexpected discovery of over 50 common toads in nest boxes and tree cavities at least 1.5 metres high.
Professor Bill Sutherland is leading a conservation revolution to reverse the dramatic loss of global biodiversity
Scientists suggest that some staffing of protected areas should be considered “essential services” in future crises.
When Gates Cambridge Scholar Clara Ma participated in the Veganuary challenge she didn’t realise it would change the course of her PhD. Today she’s investigating how public policy can transform our food systems and mitigate climate change by accelerating the development of more sustainable alternatives to animal-based protein.
Comprehensive scientific report shows progress and effects on climate, nature and people.
New study uses data on lead levels in the livers of thousands of dead raptors to calculate the impact of lead poisoning on population size.
Cambridge researchers will tackle environmental threats that could affect a third of England’s home-grown vegetables and more than a quarter of the UK's rare and endangered wild animals. Eco-friendly farming in the Fens, pine martens in the Cairngorms, and disappearing woodlands in the Lake District will all benefit from a £10 million countryside regeneration programme to safeguard the country’s most important agricultural land and beloved rural idylls.
New findings on Nigerian-linked pangolin seizures suggest that current global estimates for trafficking of the animal are far too small, say researchers.
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