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Securing action for biodiversity at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity – COP15

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14 December 20222 February 2023

Philippa Oppenheimer is a first year PhD student on the Scenario NERC Doctoral Training Partnership based at the Institute of Zoology, ZSL, partnered with the University of Reading. Her research…Read More >

Securing action for biodiversity at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity – COP15

Getting to net zero will require inclusive landscape decisions

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1 April 202223 February 2023

We are all aware of the pressing need to slow climate change and the contribution that ‘net zero’ policies have to make. Here landscape geographer Eirini Saratsi argues that getting…Read More >

Getting to net zero will require inclusive landscape decisions

Hydroelectric dams take toll on endangered big cats, study shows

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27 December 202120 December 2021

Big cats are among the most widespread top predators on Earth. Lions stalk zebra in the African savanna, tigers ambush antelope in the forests of Asia and jaguars hunt deer…Read More >

Making informed decisions in the midst of the climate crisis

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16 November 2021

As the second of four all-staff talks we held in the run-up to the COP26 Summit in November 2021, this blog includes a presentation by Professor Amanda Callaghan (Evolutionary Biology…Read More >

Biodiversity: world leaders are negotiating new targets to protect nature by 2030 – the story so far

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20 October 2021

“Putting biodiversity on a path to recovery is a defining challenge of this decade.” So begins the Kunming Declaration on biodiversity, adopted at the 15th UN biodiversity conference on October…Read More >

Brazil’s Atlantic Forest will change more in the next 50 years than at any time since the last ice age

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4 August 202127 June 2022

Brazil’s Atlantic Forest is one of the most biologically diverse places on Earth. Roughly one in every 50 species of plant and vertebrate land animal lives there and nowhere else….Read More >

Nature: how do you put a price on something that has infinite worth?

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10 February 202112 February 2021

There’s a new nature conservation strategy in town – and it means business. During the 1970s, 80s and 90s the main tactic to protect wildlife was to highlight the plight…Read More >

Biodiversity: where the world is making progress – and where it’s not

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1 October 20208 October 2020

The future of biodiversity hangs in the balance. World leaders are gathering to review international targets and make new pledges for action to stem wildlife declines. Depending on whether you are a glass half-full…Read More >

Rewilding: lessons from the medieval Baltic crusades

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14 May 202022 May 2020

The Forest of Białowieża, which straddles the border of Poland and Belarus, is unique in Europe: it is incredibly ancient. Woodland has been continuously present there for some 12,000 years….Read More >

Tiger King: why can’t we just release America’s captive tigers into the wild?

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5 May 2020

The recent Netflix series Tiger King begins with a shocking statistic: the captive tiger population in the US of 7,000 or so is almost double the total wild population of around…Read More >

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