What do you get when a stowaway toad enters the country from Mauritius and ends up in the care of a keen herpetologist? In this … Read more
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Conservationist Dr Jane Goodall to deliver this year’s DICE Lecture
World-renowned conservationist and ethologist Dr Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace, will deliver this year’s Durrell Institute … Read more
Call for Papers – Cities and Nationalism Symposium 2.0: Comparing Conflict Across Geopolitical Faultlines
The Cities & Nationalism Symposium 2.0 – Comparing Conflicts Across Geopolitical Faultlines provides a platform to bring together researchers working at the forefront of urban … Read more
DICE research shows potential for zero-deforestation pledges to protect wildlife in oil palm
New research from the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) has found that environmental efforts aimed at eliminating deforestation from oil palm production have … Read more
Governments must put biodiversity at the heart of climate policy
Protecting biodiversity needs to be addressed as critically and rapidly as the climate, argue conservationists from the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE). In … Read more
Dr Rajindra Puri edits special issue on Human Adaptation to Biodiversity Change
Dr Rajindra Puri, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Anthropology, has overseen the publication of a special issue of the journal AMBIO, dedicated to the emerging field … Read more
Dr Alastair Key leads study revealing early humans engineered optimised stone tools
Early Stone Age populations living between 1.8 – 1.2 million years ago engineered their stone tools in complex ways to make optimised cutting tools, according … Read more
DICE TALK – ‘Curtains for endangered species?’
‘Curtains for Endangered Species?’ is the theme of the first DICE talk of 2020. The talk will be given by Dr Susy Paisley, a conservation … Read more
Dr David Roberts’ research on the extinction of the Chinese paddlefish covered by National Geographic, CNN and The Times
So named for its distinctive shape, the Chinese paddlefish, or Chinese swordfish, had a lineage dating back at least 34 million years, scientists believe. It … Read more
Student-led video released of the School’s declaration of a Climate and Environmental Emergency
In September 2019, the School of Anthropology and Conservation (SAC) declared a Climate and Environmental Emergency, the first academic School at the University of Kent … Read more