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New model increases vegetation prediction accuracy in Himalayan glacier melt zones

19 January 2023

Climate warming has long been known to cause glaciers to melt and ‘retreat’ up the mountain to higher altitudes, leaving land that had been under ice for many millenia suddenly exposed to the air. The fate of this land varies – in many cases natural vegetation moves in, but in others local people cultivate the exposed land...

CCI Conservation Seminars Lent term program begins TODAY Mon 16th Jan

16 January 2023

An excellent series of talks and a post-COP15 panel discussion is lined up for this term. See the poster for details. All talks are in the DAB Main Seminar Room at 4 pm on Wednesdays, followed by drinks in the Common Room. NOTE that TODAY'S SEMINAR is on a MONDAY. The poster gives you the details so far. Save the dates...

How much agri-environment provision is required to reverse farmland bird declines?

5 January 2023

Zoology's Dr Andrew Bladon has worked with RSPB conservation scientists to explore how much bird-friendly agri-environment management is needed to stabilise or reverse farmland bird declines. Agricultural intensification is a major driver of global biodiversity decline. In Europe, farmers are financially incentivised to...

Protecting Europe’s seabirds

20 December 2022

A new conservation guide launched to protect European seabirds at risk from climate change, by the CRI's Silviu Petrovan, Bill Sutherland and Nigel Taylor, in collaboration with the ZSL (The Zoological Society of London). This is a first-of-its-kind conservation guide to protecting the 47 species that breed along the...

Paying farmers to create woodland and wetland is the most cost-effective way to hit UK environment targets

20 December 2022

Study of farmer preferences shows that turning whole areas of farmland into habitats comes with half the price tag of integrating nature into productive farmland, if biodiversity and carbon targets are to be met. Incentivising farmers to restore some land as habitats for nature could deliver UK climate and biodiversity...

The tulip hunter of Toktogul

16 December 2022

Brett Wilson's love of wild tulips has taken him to some of the most spectacular places in Central Asia, where he discovered a new species in Toktogul, Kyrgyzstan. His work has helped to uncover the plight of 53 tulips which have been added to the 'Red List' of threatened species. The tulip hunter of Toktogul (cam.ac.uk)

New book - Transforming Conservation: A practical Guide to Evidence and Decision Making

14 December 2022

We are delighted to share our newly released open access book: Transforming Conservation: A practical Guide to Evidence and Decision Making, Edited by William Sutherland Download for free: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0321 Find out more here: Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js9liVXdh20 Blog...

COP15: UN and Cambridge sign agreement which recognises the CCI Masters in Conservation Leadership

9 December 2022

The UN Convention on Biological Diversity secretariat and the University of Cambridge signed a Memorandum of Understanding on day two of COP15, which recognises that the CCI Masters in Conservation Leadership course hosted by the Department of Geography plays a crucial role in conservation capacity building. COP15: UN and...

Cambridge signs UN pledge on reversing biodiversity decline at COP15

9 December 2022

The University of Cambridge has signed a nature positive pledge as a founding member of the global Nature Positive Universities network formed in conjunction with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The CRI's Prof. Chris Sandbrook, Director of the Masters in Conservation Leadership, has played a key role in...

New UAV-based system enables efficient forest restoration monitoring

6 December 2022

Ecologists at the Conservation Research Institute have developed a new method of mapping early successional species in tropical forests using Unoccupied Ariel Vehicles (UAVs) to generate reference crown images with attached GPS, a system that will enable practitioners to construct reference data sets for forest restoration...

New model increases vegetation prediction accuracy in Himalayan glacier melt zones

CCI Conservation Seminars Lent term program begins TODAY Mon 16th Jan

How much agri-environment provision is required to reverse farmland bird declines?

Protecting Europe’s seabirds

Paying farmers to create woodland and wetland is the most cost-effective way to hit UK environment targets

The tulip hunter of Toktogul

New book - Transforming Conservation: A practical Guide to Evidence and Decision Making

COP15: UN and Cambridge sign agreement which recognises the CCI Masters in Conservation Leadership

Cambridge signs UN pledge on reversing biodiversity decline at COP15

New UAV-based system enables efficient forest restoration monitoring

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