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Herd of European bison in the snow

Conservation efforts are bringing species back from the brink

18 Mar 2025

A major review of over 67,000 animal species has found that while the natural world continues to face a biodiversity crisis, targeted conservation...

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The Gola Rainforest Project in Sierra Leone. This conservation project has limited leakage while slowing deforestation by supporting nearby farmers such as Mallo Samah to increase their yields and get higher prices for their cocoa.

Rewilding in wealthy nations could drive extinctions in species-rich regions, experts warn

13 Feb 2025

Researchers call on the international community to recognise and start tackling the ‘biodiversity leak’.

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Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Botanic Gardens must team up to save wild plants from extinction

27 Jan 2025

The world’s botanic gardens must pull together to protect global plant biodiversity in the face of the extinction crisis, amid restrictions on wild-...

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Photograph of sunlight poking through clouds onto mountains

A radical economic transformation is the only way to save nature and ourselves

04 Nov 2024

After two weeks of negotiations last week in Cali, Colombia, the COP16 biodiversity summit was suspended with no overall agreement on a path forward...

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Melissa Leach stands in front of COP16 banner

Hope and determination for nature

31 Oct 2024

Cambridge Conservation Initiative Executive Director Melissa Leach offers insights on the COP16 Global Biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia as...

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The price of ecological breakdown

08 Oct 2024

Cambridge researchers are investigating the economic consequences of climate change and biodiversity loss, and identifying ways to drive a more...

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Highly-sensitive beaks could help albatrosses and penguins find their food

18 Sep 2024

Researchers have discovered that seabirds, including penguins and albatrosses, have highly-sensitive regions in their beaks that could be used to...

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Timber/farming contrast in the USA

Global timber supply threatened as climate change pushes cropland northwards

29 Aug 2024

Climate change will move and reduce the land suitable for growing food and timber, putting the production of these 2 vital resources into direct...

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Man (seringueiro) extracts latex from a tree in the middle of the Amazon.

A new way of thinking about the economy could help protect the Amazon, and help its people thrive

06 Aug 2024

To protect the Amazon and support the wellbeing of its people, its economy needs to shift from environmentally harmful production to a model built...

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Gold mine in Rondonia, Amazonian Brazil

Thousands of birds and fish threatened by mining for clean energy transition

26 Jul 2024

Our increasing demand for metals and minerals is putting over four thousand vertebrate species at risk, with the raw materials needed for clean...

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Male wren with bright blue plumage brings food to a cuckoo fledgling .

Cuckoos evolve to look like their hosts - and form new species in the process

30 May 2024

Two decades of cuckoo research have helped scientists to explain how battles between species can cause new species to arise

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Fish bellies, fava beans and food security

05 Apr 2024

Cambridge Zero and Cambridge Global Food Security gather academics and experts to share solutions for the planet’s looming food production problem.

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