Cambridge Conservation Seminars 


2011-10-12 17:00: Trade-offs, team work and the challenge of translating conservation science into policy: some lessons and thoughts from the Amazon. (Dr Toby Gardner ( Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology))

2011-10-19 17:00: The Ecosystem Service Paradigm: progress towards a more sustainable future. (Steve Albon, Valuing Nature Network,The James Hutton Institute)

2011-10-26 17:00: Conserving India's Forests: participation, forest rights and ecosystem services. (Bhaskar Vira, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2011-11-02 17:00: Counting and Conserving the World's 'Missing' Species (Lucas Joppa, CEES Microsoft Research)

2011-11-09 17:00: The Natural Way to Care: how exposure to natural environments shapes human relationships. (Netta Weinstein, Department of Psychology, University of Essex)

2011-11-16 17:00: Mapping Africa's natural capital: progress, problems, potential (Ruth Swetnam, Conservation Science Group, University of Cambridge)

2011-11-23 17:00: Getting real about Marine Protected Areas: pragmatism in design and implementation. (Amanda Vincent, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia.)

2011-11-30 17:00: Biodiversity offsets and the journey to No Net Loss. (Kerry ten Kate, BBOP Forest Trends)

2012-01-25 17:00: iTrade Wildlife: detecting rare online behaviour (David Roberts, DICE, University of Kent)

2012-02-01 17:00: Linking science, policy & practice for wildlife conservation on farmland. (Lynn Dicks, Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology)

2012-02-08 17:00: How high should Climate Change taxes be? (Chris Hope, Cambridge Judge Business School)

2012-02-15 17:00: Wombats, Weapons & Water:  the making of international conservation treaties. (Catherine MacKenzie, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge)

2012-02-22 17:00: Getting the measure of biodiversity: birds as indicators of environmental change. (Richard Gregory, RSPB)

2012-02-29 17:00: Why Monitoring Matters when designing payment for ecosystem services schemes. (Julia Jones, University of Bangor)

2012-03-07 17:00: Geodiversity, geoconservation & geomorphological services:  Challenges beyond 2012. (Tom Spencer, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2012-03-14 17:00: REDD: a good idea, impossible to implement? (Arild Angelsen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB))

2012-10-10 17:00: How might we make space for nature in landscapes of the future? (Dr Ben Phalan, Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology)

2012-10-17 17:00: Tropical forests in the Anthropocene: what does this mean for conservation? (Dr Simon Lewis, Royal Society Research Fellow, School of Geography, University of Leeds)

2012-10-24 17:00: Saving the Tasmanian devil from a transmissible cancer (Dr Elizabeth Murchison, Junior Research Fellow, King's College, Cambridge & Research Fellow in Cancer Genetics & Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.)

2012-10-31 17:00: How useful is local ecological knowledge for conservation management? Case studies from the EDGE (Dr Samuel Turvey, Research Fellow, Institute of Zoology, ZSL.)

2012-11-07 17:00: Smarter ways to monitor wildlife (Prof Kate Jones, Joint UCL and ZSL Chair, Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of Zoology, ZSL)

2012-11-14 17:00: Shifting baselines and habitat restoration: Setting appropriate goals (Dr Line zu Ermgassen, visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2012-11-21 17:00: The state of the world's birds: how science underpins conservation and advocacy. (Dr Stuart Butchart, Global Research and Indicators Co-ordinator, BirdLife International)

2012-11-28 17:00: 'Prosuming' Conservation: interrogating the value of conservation in the web 2.0 age (Prof. Bram Buscher, Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainable Development at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague)

2012-12-12 17:00: Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas (Prof. Bill Laurance, Distinguished Research Professor & Australian Laureate, JCU, Australia)

2013-01-23 17:00: Molecular biology and sustainable agriculture (Professor Sir David Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences)

2013-01-30 17:00: Conservation and climate change: how radical do we need to be? (Professor Chris Thomas, University of York)

2013-02-06 17:00: Conservation of migratory species: the importance of seasonal interactions (Dr Jenny Gill, University of East Anglia (UEA))

2013-02-13 17:00: Rethinking the scope of REDD+ : Carbon stocks or triple wins? (Dr Heike Schroeder, University of East Anglia (UEA))

2013-02-20 17:00: Expert judgements, Delphi groups, prediction markets: forecasting the future for conservation and national security (Professor Mark Burgman, ACERA, University of Melbourn, Australia)

2013-02-27 17:00: Making Poverty History – what role for biodiversity conservation? (Dr Dilys Roe, International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED))

2013-03-06 17:00: From invasion to restoration: how enlightened are New Zealand's conservation policies? (Dr David Coomes, Department of Plant Sciences)

2013-03-13 17:00: Re-wilding: putting natural processes back on track (Frans Vera, Director, The Foundation of Natural Processes, The Netherlands)

2013-10-16 17:00: Lessons from the Dodo: restoring species and ecosystems on Mauritius (Prof. Carl Jones, Scientific Director of the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, and International Conservation Fellow at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust)

2013-10-23 17:00: Predicting wildlife dynamics in a changing environment (Dr Ben Collen, Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research, UCL)

2013-10-31 17:00: Mainstreaming Natural Capital into Decision-Making:  Frontiers in Research and Policy (Prof. Gretchen Daily, Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment)

2013-11-06 17:00: Predicting Amazonian deforestation and its biodiversity impacts (Dr Rob Ewers, Reader in Ecology, Imperial College London)

2013-11-13 17:00: Valuing nature for better environmental decision-making: A collaborative toolkit for real-world conservation (Jenny Birch, Ecosystem Services Officer, BirdLife International)

2013-11-20 17:00: Conservation of UK seabirds: a big issue or a done deal? (Prof. Sarah Wanless, Seabird Ecologist, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, NERC)

2013-11-27 17:00: Commercial Whaling:  Science, Society and International Relations (Dr Simon Brockington, International Whaling Commission)

2013-12-04 17:00: The (moral) dilemmas of (conservation) research(ers?) (Dr Bhaskar Vira; Director, Cambridge Conservation Research Institute (UCCRI) and Department of Geography)

2014-01-22 17:00: Resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem services to environmental change (Professor Adrian Newton; University of Bournemouth)

2014-01-29 17:00: Friend or foe? Making sense of social research and biodiversity conservation (Dr Chris Sandbrook; UNEP-WCMC & Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2014-02-05 17:00: Lessons from the conservation of Europe's Large Blue butterflies (Professor Jeremy Thomas OBE; University of Oxford)

2014-02-12 17:00: Producing Eden: Can wildlife thrive beyond national parks in India? (Dr Paul Robbins; Department of Geography International Fellow & University of Wisconsin-Madison)

2014-02-19 17:00: The Politics of Thinking Big in Conservation (Professor Bill Adams; Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2014-02-26 17:00: Hybrid corn and endangered maize: historical perspectives on the conservation of plant genetic resources (Dr Helen Curry; Department of History & Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)

2014-03-12 17:00: Planetary Boundaries and Action2020: Innovations in corporate Sustainability (Professor Gail Whiteman; Erasmus University)

2014-05-14 17:00: RESCHEDULED - The Devil's in the Detail: Designing Instruments, Incentives and Institutions for Stewardship Initiatives on Private Land (Dr Andrew Knight; Imperial College London)

2014-10-13 17:00: 'From individuals to populations to communities: Climate change impacts on birds' (Dr James Pearce-Higgins, Director of Science, British Trust for Ornithology)

2014-10-22 17:00: How do we know if we're making a difference? Finding solid ground in the shifting sands of conservation evaluation (Professor E J Milner-Gulland, Imperial College Conservation Science)

2014-10-29 17:00: Planetary Boundaries 2.0: the latest advancements on defining a safe operating space for humanity on Earth (Johan Rockström  Professor in Environmental Sciences  Executive Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University)

2014-11-05 17:00: MPAs, mangroves and carpets: cause for #OceanOptimism? (Dr Nick Hill, Zoological Society of London)

2014-11-12 17:00: Environmental and Science Learning through Participation in Scientific Research: From Learning to Conservation Action (Professor Heidi Ballard, UC Davis)

2014-11-19 17:00: Landscape scale conservation - a bird's eye view (Dr Juliet Vickery, RSPB Centre for Conservation Science)

2014-11-26 17:00: Tracking marine turtles for conservation (Professor Brendan Godley, University of Exeter)

2014-12-03 17:00: Extending freshwater conservation beyond shorelines by linking aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems (Dr Andrew Tanentzap, Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2015-01-21 17:00: Is Evolution (Not) Working for Infected Amphibians? (Dr Trent Garner, Zoological Society of London)

2015-01-28 17:00: Where did plant diversity and sustainability begIn?  Arboriculture in the ancient Roman world (Dr Robyn Veal, Dept of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge)

2015-02-04 17:00: Biodiversity and the feel good factor (Dr Zoe Davies, University of Kent)

2015-02-11 17:00: Evaluating the social and ecological outcomes of conservation interventions: Tanzania's Wildlife Management Areas (Professor Katherine Homewood, UCL)

2015-02-18 17:00: REDD+ and Biodiversity Conservation: Are The Challenges What We Thought They Were? (Dr Valerie Kapos, UNEP-WCMC)

2015-02-25 17:00: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Science in a human-dominated world (Professor Georgina Mace, UCL)

2015-03-04 17:00: Trees, ‘tribes' and taboos: The political ecology of conservation and culture in Madagascar (Dr Ivan Scales, Dept of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2015-03-11 17:00: Biodiversity in a World of Human Dominance and Rapid Change – Anthropocene Challenges and Opportunities (Professor Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus University)

2015-10-14 17:00: Conflicts in conservation: hunting for solutions (Steve Redpath, Institute of Biological & Environmental Sciences, Aberdeen University)

2015-10-21 17:00: Invasive alien species on islands: problems and solutions (Anthony Martin, South Georgia Habitat Restoration Project, South Georgia Heritage Trust and  University of Dundee)

2015-10-28 17:00: The challenge of feeding 9-10 billion people without losing most biodiversity (Charles Godfray, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford)

2015-11-04 17:00: Known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns: disease threats to Tasmanian Devils, frogs, koalas and woylies (Hamish McCallum, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London )

2015-11-11 17:00: Commonness and conservation: should we bother about the rare stuff? (Sandy Knapp, Life Science Plants Division, Natural History Museum)

2015-11-18 17:00: Mendicant baobabs and acrobat acacias:  lessons from plants that don’t stay put (Christian Kull, Institut de géographie et durabilité, Université de Lausanne)

2015-11-25 17:00: Wildlife in the Anthropocene: conservation after nature (Jamie Lorimer, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)

2015-12-02 17:00: Conservation impacts of a warming climate: changes in Massachusetts since the time of Thoreau (1817-1862) (Richard Primack, Biology Department, Boston University)

2016-01-20 17:00: Biodiversity conservation and the Green Economy: complementary or competing objectives? Can we have both, and what do we need to know? (Kathy Willis Department of Zoology, Oxford University & Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)

2016-01-27 17:00: Science Policy and Expertise (Rob Doubleday, Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP), University of Cambridge)

2016-02-03 17:00: Managing tropical agriculture to minimise biodiversity loss (David Edwards, Dept. of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield)

2016-02-10 17:00: Bats and Emerging Infectious Diseases: conflicting priorities between conservation and public health? (James Wood, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge )

2016-02-17 17:00: Hot dogs: understanding climate change impacts in a tropical mammal (Rosie Woodroffe, Institute of Zoology, London)

2016-02-24 17:00: Why are slow lorises venomous and will this help or hinder their conservation? (Anna Nekaris, Primate Conservation, Oxford Brookes University)

2016-03-02 17:00: Hook, line and extinction: can science save albatrosses from fisheries? (Richard Philips, British Antarctic Survey)

2016-03-09 17:00: Impact Evaluation of Protected Areas: what do we know about impacts, moderators and mechanisms? (Humanitas Visiting Professor in Sustainability Studies, John Hopkins University)

2016-10-12 17:00: Estimating conservation status of Grauer’s gorillas (Andrew Plumptre, Albertine Rift Program, Wildlife Conservation Society)

2016-10-19 17:00: Developing more systematic approaches for measuring, connecting and expanding the global conservation area network (Bob Smith, Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent)

2016-10-26 17:00: Surviving the 21st Century (Martin Rees,  Partha Dasgupta,  Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh and Bonnie Wintle, The Centre for Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge)

2016-11-02 17:00: Causes and mechanisms underlying changes in the migratory behaviour of birds (Aldina Franco, School of Environmental Sciences, University East Anglia)

2016-11-09 17:00: Information gaps in conservation science: from data collection to analysis and practices (Tatsuya Amano, The Centre for Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge)

2016-11-16 17:00: Cuckoos, swifts and nightingales: Tracking Afro-Palaearctic migrants to understand population declines (Chris Hewson, British Trust for Ornithology (BTO))

2016-11-16 17:00: Cuckoos, swifts and nightingales: Tracking Afro-Palaearctic migrants to understand population declines (Chris Hewson, British Trust for Ornithology (BTO))

2016-11-23 17:00: Unravelling the ecology of insect invasions : from individuals to communities in Britain and beyond (Helen Roy, NERC, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology )

2016-11-30 17:00: European large carnivores are coming back, but can we keep them? (Guillaume Chapron, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)

2016-11-30 17:00: European large carnivores are coming back, but can we keep them? (Guillaume Chapron, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)

2017-01-25 17:00: UNESCO biosphere reserves: concept, challenges and opportunities (Professor Martin Price, Perth College Chair of the UK MAB Committee  Chairholder, UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Mountain Development Director, Centre for Mountain Studies)

2017-02-01 17:00: When does environmental science get used in policy and practice?  (David Rose, Department of Geography University of Cambridge)

2017-02-08 17:00: Lessons from plants that don’t stay put:  Mendicant baobabs and acrobat acacias (Christian Kull, Institut de géographie et durabilité Université de Lausanne)

2017-02-15 17:00: Sex, eggs and videotape: techniques in threatened bird conservation (Debbie Pain Director of Conservation, The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT))

2017-02-22 17:00: Conservation and invasive species in freshwater ecosystems  (David Aldridge, Department of Zoology University of Cambridge)

2017-03-01 17:00: Understanding consumer demand in the wildlife trade (Amy Hinsley, Oxford Martin School University of Oxford)

2017-03-08 17:00: Change and necessity: forest resilience and conservation for the 21st century (Jonathan Spencer, Head of Planning & Environment Forest Enterprise Forestry Commission)

2017-03-15 17:00: Ecological and evolutionary responses of species to climate change (Jane Hill, Department of Biology University of York)