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Dr Jane Goodall DBE

Dr Jane Goodall on the environment: "My greatest hope is our young people"

14 Jan 2020

In a new film, Dr Jane Goodall DBE talks about the environmental crisis and her reasons for hope.

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Women in STEM: Flora Donald

19 Dec 2019

Flora Donald is a PhD candidate who splits her time between the Department of Plant Sciences and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Here, she...

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Women in STEM: Sophia Cooke

12 Dec 2019

Sophia Cooke is a PhD candidate in the Department of Zoology, and a member of King's College. Here, she tells us about splitting her time between...

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Ecosystems Overload

10 Dec 2019

We are laying waste to the biosphere. If we're serious about saving millions of species, then it's our own that must change how it thinks about...

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Women in STEM: Fiona Llewellyn-Beard

28 Nov 2019

Fiona Llewellyn-Beard is a PhD candidate in the Department of Earth Sciences, where she studies salt marshes and how they store huge amounts of...

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Saving ‘Half-Earth’ for nature would affect over a billion people

18 Nov 2019

Plans to save biodiversity must take into account the social impacts of conservation if they are to succeed, say University of Cambridge researchers.

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Sir David Attenborough

Sir David Attenborough: "Our planet hangs in the balance"

18 Nov 2019

Forests burn, glaciers melt and one million species face extinction. Can we humans save the planet from ourselves? Here, Sir David Attenborough...

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A farmer with a conservationist in Montana, USA

Conservationists share ‘core aims’ but clash over ways forward, study finds

09 Apr 2019

Research reveals rifts within global movement – from economic approaches to protected areas – while confirming support for aims underpinning it.

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Future-proofing a forest

27 Mar 2019

Faced with shifting demands on landscapes and a changing climate, how do you plan for a forest’s future?

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Kingfisher

Cambridge hosts World Economic Forum meeting looking at role of nature in delivering development goals

22 Jan 2019

Sir David Attenborough will join the Cambridge Conservation Initiative as it hosts an event at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos...

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Peters' wrinkle-lipped bat. Courtesy of Adrià López-Baucells

Bats to the rescue

13 Dec 2018

A new study shows that bats are giving Madagascar’s rice farmers a vital pest control service by feasting on plagues of insects. And this, a...

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The Lost Words: inspiring children to love and protect nature

30 Nov 2018

The Lost Words is a book by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris that summons the magic of nature to help children find, love and protect the natural...

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