{"id":4118,"date":"2019-10-31T11:36:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T11:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=4118"},"modified":"2019-10-31T11:37:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T11:37:13","slug":"dice-talk-progress-with-global-tree-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2019\/10\/31\/dice-talk-progress-with-global-tree-conservation\/","title":{"rendered":"DICE Talk &#8211; &#8216;Progress with global tree conservation&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month\u2019s talk by <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/dice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DICE (Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology)<\/a> will be given by Dr <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/dice\/person\/dr-sara-oldfield\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sara Oldfield<\/a> OBE, a member of the DICE Advisory Board. As a botanist and plant conservation expert, she will be giving an update on global tree conservation.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sara Oldfield is a botanist and plant conservation expert. She is Co-Chair of the <a href=\"https:\/\/globaltrees.org\/iucn-ssc-global-tree-specialist-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IUCN\/SSC Global Tree Specialist Group<\/a>, responsible for promoting and implementing projects to identify and conserve globally Red Listed tree species. Until February 2015, Sara was Secretary General of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgci.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI)<\/a>, leading this organisation for ten years. Prior to joining BGCI, Sara worked for a range of other conservation organisations including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fauna-flora.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fauna &amp; Flora International<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unep-wcmc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UNEP-WCMC<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kew.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Royal Botanic Gardens Kew<\/a>. In 2016, Sara was awarded an OBE for the conservation of tree species worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The event will take place on Thursday 31st October 2019 from 18.00 to 19.00 in Grimond Lecture Theatre 2 and is open to all.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more details please visit the Event\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/921290718230011\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>To find out about future DICE talks then please <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/dGsf75\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sign up to the mailing list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To watch previous DICE talks then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCOU2IxlXT82k_Dcp_04NGoA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subscribe to the YouTube channe<\/a>l.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month\u2019s talk by DICE (Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology) will be given by Dr Sara Oldfield OBE, a member of the DICE Advisory &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2019\/10\/31\/dice-talk-progress-with-global-tree-conservation\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40284,"featured_media":4119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[159353,6599,6598,124,6600],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4121,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118\/revisions\/4121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}