News from the Department of Zoology.
The Student Conference in Conservation Science has connected thousands of young conservationists determined to tackle the biodiversity crisis - and this year celebrates its 25th anniversary.
Professor Mark Brown has devoted decades to defending pollinators from disease, pesticides and parasites.
Research led by the University of Cambridge and the RSPB shows that farming wetland-adapted crops on wetter peat - known as paludiculture - can support richer and more diverse bird communities than drained grassland.
Funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme will support promising mid-career scientists to pursue creative research ideas across a broad range of scientific fields.
Scientists have reconstructed ancient anacondas from 12.4-million-year-old fossils discovered in Venezuela to find these tropical snakes were a whopping 5.2 metres long.
Cambridge researchers have developed a new way to measure the impact of food production on the long-term survival of other species around the world.
A team at Cambridge is helping to drive biological discovery through innovation in microscope technologies
Dr Tom Worthington works on the restoration and conservation of coastal ecosystems. The data he provides sits at the heart of billion-pound initiatives to save our natural world.
Before the ‘Out of Africa’ migration that led our ancestors into Eurasia and beyond, human populations learned to adapt to new and challenging habitats including African forests and deserts, which was key to the long-term success of our species’ dispersal.
Eleven senior researchers at the University of Cambridge have been awarded Advanced Grants from the European Research Council – the highest number of grants awarded to any institution in this latest funding round.
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