DICE PhD candidate Steven Allain has been featured in BBC Wildlife magazine after being interviewed by Jo Price. Steven’s feature was mainly based on the … Read more
Category: Conservation Biology
DICE co-hosting symposium on using research to address illegal wildlife trade
Illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is a leading threat to biodiversity globally. Experts from across the globe will convene in London to explore strategies to tackle … Read more
DICE research shows that relocating snakes is not as helpful to their conservation as previously thought
A pioneering study conducted at DICE on the effects of relocating adders due to development has found that males will disperse from their release site … Read more
DICE lecture series
The Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology and the School of Anthropology and Conservation were delighted to present Dame Jane Goodall DBE as the special … Read more
Enhancing environmental resilience in oil palm landscapes via improved design and monitoring of riparian reserves
Principal Investigators: Dr Matthew Struebig Project dates: 2016 – 2018 Funding: The Newton-Ungku-Omar Fund (British Council, and Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT)) UK … Read more
Marrying community land rights with stakeholder aspirations in Indonesian Borneo
Principal Investigator: Dr Matthew Struebig and Dr Freya St. John Project dates: 2016 – 2019 Funding: The Darwin Initiative (DFID) Collaborators: Fauna and Flora International Indonesia programme, … Read more
Translocating conservation success and skills-exchange across four Indian Ocean countries
Many global conservation success-stories originate from Seychelles and Mauritius. Remarkably, however, propagating these much-needed skill-sets elsewhere doesn’t happen naturally, particularly across low-income and island nations. … Read more
Developing a sampled global protected area coverage metric
Principal Investigator: Dr Bob Smith Project dates: 2015 – Funding: University of Kent Faculty of Social Sciences Collaborators: UNEP-WCMC Protected areas (PAs) are a … Read more
A Needs Assessment of Green Space Provision across Kent: How does this correlate with low levels of physical activity?
Principal Investigator: Dr Zoe Davies Co-investigator: Tristan Pett Project dates: 2015-16 Funding: Kent Nature Partnership Collaborators: Teresa Bennett (Natural Values), Dr Susan Hidgson (Imperial College, … Read more
Who’s a pretty parrot then? Public preferences for native and non-native species across Western Europe
Principal Investigator: Dr Zoe Davies Project dates: 2015-2016 Funding: University of Kent Faculty of Social Sciences Collaborators: Dr Thomas Lundhede (University of Copenhagen), Dr Martin … Read more