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SUMMARY:Conservation in a post truth world?  - Professor Bill Sutherland\,
  Department of Zoology\, University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Julia Napier
DESCRIPTION:This talk will follow on from the Seventeenth AGM of the Frien
 ds of the Roman Road and Fleam Dyke\n\nThe meeting will start with an illu
 strated report on the year’s work\, followed by a brief interval after w
 hich our guest speaker will be Bill Sutherland\, Miriam Rothschild Profess
 or of Conservation Biology at the University of Cambridge\, Fellow of St C
 atharine’s College and President of the British Ecological Society. \n\n
 Prof Sutherland's research is directed at predicting the consequences of e
 nvironmental change. He is known for his research on integrating science a
 nd policy\, particularly in the field of evidence-based conservation. Over
  the last three decades\, his research has spanned several disciplines. Tw
 o of his key contributions have been the horizon scanning exercises to ide
 ntify future priority issues and the 100 important questions in various di
 sciplines: ecology\, poverty prevention\, global agriculture and food amon
 gst others. He has also worked extensively on bird population ecology and 
 the biodiversity impacts of agriculture. \n\nIn his talk Conservation in a
  post truth world? Bill Sutherland will discuss how we can use evidence in
 cluding the website www.conservationevidence.com to underpin conservation 
 practice.\n
LOCATION:Meeting Room of the Fulbourn Centre\, 31 Home End\, CB21 5BS.
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