Members of the public are invited to explore the case for the conservation of biodiversity with a panel of leading speakers from natural science, social science and business today, Wednesday 10 March.
Members of the public are invited to explore the case for the conservation of biodiversity with a panel of leading speakers from natural science, social science and business today, Wednesday 10 March.
The event entitled ‘The price of extinction: what losing biodiversity costs’ is part of the annual Cambridge Science Festival and also marks the International Year of Biodiversity.
An expert panel at the event will suggest that one of the biggest challenges facing us in the twenty first century is understanding and managing the human impacts on biodiversity.
Cambridge Conservation Initiative have put together the panel of speakers, who will outline and discuss the social, economic and natural costs associated with the loss of biodiversity.
The event is sponsored by Science AAAS and will be chaired by Tim Radford, former Science Editor, The Guardian.
The panellists include William Kendall, environmentalist, Suffolk organic farmer and CEO of Green and Blacks Chocolate; Bill Adams, Moran Professor of Conservation and Development in the Department of Geography, Dr Pamela Abbott, Chair of Cambridge Conservation Forum, Dr Hazell Thompson, a leading African conservationists from BirdLife International and Dr Ruth Swetnam, a post doctoral scientist in the Conservation Science Group in the Department of Zoology.
Audience members will have the opportunity to ask questions of the panel, and join conservationists from across Cambridge Conservation Initiative for a drink and informal discussion afterwards.
The event will begin at 7.15pm at the Judge Business School and is free and open to all. To reserve your place, please email csf@admin.cam.ac.uk
The Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) is a pioneering collaboration between six Departments of the University of Cambridge and nine leading conservation organisations and networks based in the Cambridge area. It represents a critical mass of expertise at the interface of research and education, policy and action for the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems.
The Cambridge Science Festival is the UK’s largest free science festival offering adults and children alike the chance to get involved in some of the University’s cutting edge research between 8 and 21 March.
For more information and the full programme for the Cambridge Science Festival please follow the links top right of the page.
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