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Category: DICE

Sophus zu Ermgassen: one of the most influential UK environmental Professionals

By gs510 | 23 May 2022

Sophus zu Ermgassen appears on the first ever environmental ‘Power List’ The ENDS Report has published their first ever Power List of the most influential … Read more

Pink pigeon population increases but extinction risk remains high

By gs510 | 13 May 2022

The authors of a major study, including Professor Jim Groombridge and Dr Hazel Jackson warn that boosting species numbers of the once critically endangered pink … Read more

DICE Lecture 2022: Finding optimism in a time of biodiversity crisis

By gs510 | 28 April 2022

Conservation Scientist Professor EJ Milner-Gulland will give this years lecture in person from the Keynes Lecture Theatre. The annual DICE Lecture will be held on … Read more

Bird Conservation Research in Guyana

By gs510 | 07 April 2022

PhD candidate Will Hayes is currently out on fieldwork in Guyana; ‘Human settlements might have a role to play in biodiversity conservation going forward’. From … Read more

From Publications to Public Actions for Scientists

By gs510 | 30 March 2022

What is the role of scientists in the planetary emergency? We welcomed Dr Charlie Gardner back to talk to us about activism and academia. On … Read more

One billion dollars insufficient to halt orangutan decline

By gs510 | 24 March 2022

A new study shows that orangutans, are still rapidly declining despite more than one billion US dollars invested in their conservation between 2000 and 2020 … Read more

Listening out for bats, using machine learning in Southeast Asia

By gs510 | 25 February 2022

PhD student Natalie Yoh’s research focuses on how bats in Malaysian Borneo are impacted by land use change particularly by the use of bioacoustics. He … Read more

Worrying signs of a resurgence in South Africa rhino poaching

By gs510 | 11 February 2022

Professor Keith Somerville gives his expert comment on the announcement of the most recent rhino poaching figures. On 8 February, South Africa’s Minister of Forestry, … Read more

On the Trail of the Midwife Toad in Great Britain

By gs510 | 01 February 2022

PhD candidate Steve Allain gives a talk on his sideshow interest, Alytes Obstetricians for the Herpetofauna Worker’s Meetingm non-native species symposium. PhD candidate and Herptologist … Read more

Breakthrough study of Conservation Leadership Produces a Competence Framework for Professionals in Biodiversity Conservation.

By gs510 | 31 January 2022

Dr Simon Black has produced the first competence framework for Leaders in conservation, following a study drawing upon the experience of hundreds of conservation professionals … Read more

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