Articles about 'Cambridge Conservation Initiative'

Conservation scientists working in partnership with practitioners and policy makers are building practical tools for real-world conservation.

Innovative approaches for protecting the future of Sierra Leone’s Gola Forest – globally important for its biodiversity and its carbon reserves – are being developed by a collaboration of conservation agencies and University of Cambridge researchers.

This month, the University of Cambridge will be profiling research that addresses biodiversity conservation. To begin, Dr Mike Rands, Executive Director of Cambridge Conservation Initiative, explains how a partnership of researchers, world-leading conservation practitioners and policy experts has a crucial role to play in this 21st-century challenge.

Far from being merely ‘dirt’, soil plays a fundamental role in food production, water availability and biodiversity. A new research programme aims to safeguard its future sustainable management.

The future of forests in a changing world will be debated at an international conference in Cambridge this week.

Finding the right balance between global and local demands on the natural world could help reduce poverty.

Cambridge Conservation Initiative’s (CCI), inaugural symposium, held on Wednesday, focused on how to conserve natural capital and the future of biodiversity.

Leading conservationists warn that in order to save biodiversity, society's behaviour must change.