DICE Talk – ‘Wildlife Trade on the New Silk Roads’

Jars of Chinese medicine

‘Wildlife Trade on the New Silk Roads’ is the theme of the December DICE talk.

The talk will be given by Dr Amy Hinsley, Postdoctorate Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Amy will talk about her work looking at threats and opportunities from the global expansion of traditional Chinese medicine.

Dr Amy Hinsley is an alumna of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), completing her PhD on wildlife trade in 2016. Dr Hinsley took as her case study the trade in orchids, using interdisciplinary methods to understand the behaviour of orchid consumers and traders from all over the world. With almost 30,000 species, orchids represent more than 70% of all taxa listed by the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the main international legislation regulating wildlife trade. In 2018, she won the RSPB Centre for Conservation Science Award for an outstanding PhD,

The event will take place on Thursday 12th December 2019 from 18.00 to 19.00 in Grimond Lecture Theatre 3 and is open to all.

For more details please visit the Event’s Facebook page.

The DICE talks are a monthly set of free and public events that showcase the work of DICE members, students and alumni. They take place between 18:00 and 19:00 on a Thursday each month and everyone is welcome to attend.

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