Biodiversity conservation

Innovative approaches for protecting the future of Sierra Leone’s Gola Forest – globally important for its biodiversity and its carbon reserves – are...

Some plants go to extraordinary lengths to attract pollinators. A unique collaboration between plant scientists and physicists is revealing the full...

In the second of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, zoologist Dr Ben Phalan ventures into a tropical forest to understand the...

The traditional belief that fish have short memory spans may not be as true as we thought. Gates scholar Alex Vail is carrying out research that...

Over the past month, the University of Cambridge has been profiling research that addresses one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century – how...

As the drive to increase food production gathers pace, conservation scientists suggest that reconciling food security with protecting biodiversity...

Research reveals plumages exhibit less than a third of possible colours birds can see.

Current plans to mitigate deforestation could adversely affect rural poor.