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Conservation Research Institute

The University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute (CRI) is an inclusive interdisciplinary community of world-leading scholars with an interest in conservation.

Our goals include conducting research and activities that contribute to the protection and flourishing of global biodiversity, a stable and liveable climate, functioning and resilient ecosystems, and improved human well-being for all, as well as understanding the relationship between biodiversity conservation and society.

Latest News

The new Conservation Evidence Toolkit

16 January 2025

Back in July 2024, we hosted a workshop with some of our Evidence Champions . We were keen to learn how they are embedding evidence in their conservation projects and explore ways that we can improve what we do here at Conservation Evidence. From these discussions, it became clear that we could improve how we communicate...

New LIFE metric reveals striking variations in extinction risk for c. 30,000 species

16 January 2025

New LIFE metric reveals striking variations in extinction risk for c. 30,000 species A new a tool shows more clearly than ever before where people are changing extinction risks for nearly 30 000 species and where conservation actions might be most effective. The Land-cover change Impacts of Future Extinctions metric (LIFE...