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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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New long-term collaboration with Suzano begins with a £10 million donation to support conservation and sustainability education and research

15 Nov 2024

Suzano, one the world’s largest producers of bio-based raw materials, based in São Paulo, Brazil, establishes a long-term initiative with Jesus...

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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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Cairngorms landscape.

Return to the wild

12 Oct 2024

Ambitious collaborations are bringing biodiversity back to the Scottish Highlands.

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Panel members from CCI and CISL discuss the upcoming COP16

Cambridge conservation and sustainable business leaders prepare for COP16

11 Oct 2024

The Cambridge Conservation Initiative and the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) co-hosted a panel discussion...

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Scottish highlands.

How to restore a landscape

09 Oct 2024

Inside the programme protecting Europe's land, sea and species.

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Photo of Sir David Attenborough on a visit to Cambridge Conservation Research Initiative

Sir David Attenborough's 'joy' on visit to Cambridge Conservation Initiative

27 Sep 2024

Sir David Attenborough spoke of how he feels during visits to the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) when he stopped by the CCI conservation...

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Partha Dasgupta wins BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award for Economics

04 Apr 2024

Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta (Economics, St. John's) wins the BBVA award for Economics, Finance and Management for his groundbreaking work in...

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Adult cicada on a leaf

Swarming cicadas, stock traders, and the wisdom of the crowd

01 Feb 2024

The springtime emergence of vast swarms of cicadas can be explained by a mathematical model of collective decision-making with similarities to models...

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Rabbit and birds painting.

The Lost Words: a ‘spell book’ that closes the gap between childhood and nature

01 Jan 2022

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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Transcribing together

23 Jul 2021

Volunteers join together to help the Cambridge Digital Library transcribe the notebooks of notable British ecologist, Oliver Rackham.

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