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Ghana forest

Sparing or sharing? Protecting wild species may require growing more food on less land

02 Sep 2011

Separating land for nature and land for crops may be the best way to meet increased food demand with the least impact on wild species.

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Chocolate-backed Kingfisher

Farming and the fate of wild nature

19 Jul 2011

As the drive to increase food production gathers pace, conservation scientists suggest that reconciling food security with protecting biodiversity...

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Commonplace books from the collection of Professor William St Clair

Facebook's precursor

14 Jul 2011

'Commonplace books' were scrapbooks into which people copied their favourite poems and collected together other items – and were used as the basis...

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Pearl oyster with pearl

Mussel your way into new exhibition

13 Apr 2011

Some of planet Earth’s longest living inhabitants are the focus of a major new exhibition and website brought to life by Cambridge University’s...

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icy world

Cambridge Ideas: This Icy World

30 Mar 2011

Cambridge University glaciologist Professor Julian Dowdeswell has spent three years of his life in the polar regions. //-->

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Amazon leaf canopy

Forests and global change

28 Mar 2011

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

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Tigers

Tiger saved by Cambridge Vet School

04 Nov 2010

A tiger at Shepreth Wildlife Park recently underwent surgery at the Queen's Veterinary Hospital, Department of Veterinary Medicine in a bid to save...

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Forest

First biodiversity symposium looks to future

16 Sep 2010

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

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Tigers

Scientists plot key sites for tiger’s last stand

14 Sep 2010

Efforts to protect the wild tiger should be intensively focused on a few key sites if conservationists are to have any chance of saving it from...

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Biodiversity

To save biodiversity, society’s behaviour must change

09 Sep 2010

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

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Bee in flight

Translating science for conservation: bees benefit first

08 Sep 2010

A project to make conservation science accessible and relevant to conservationists and policymakers launches its first major synopsis of evidence, on...

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trawl

Trawling survives selling previously discarded fish

03 Aug 2010

Fishermen barely eking out a profit because of overfishing of their target stock, shrimp, are now surviving by selling their bycatch (the low-value...

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