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Forest canopy

Cambridge on World Environment Day 2024

05 Jun 2024

This year's World Environment Day focus is on land restoration. So we spoke with three Cambridge researchers working on reviving landscapes, boosting...

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Peters' wrinkle-lipped bat. Courtesy of Adrià López-Baucells

Bats to the rescue

13 Dec 2018

A new study shows that bats are giving Madagascar’s rice farmers a vital pest control service by feasting on plagues of insects. And this, a...

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In Peruvian Amazon Rainforest

‘Keep it local’ approach to protecting the rainforest can be more effective than government schemes

12 Sep 2017

Conservation initiatives led by local and indigenous groups can be just as effective as schemes led by government, according to new research. In some...

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Forest region of South West Cameroon

Was the dawn of man among trees in the cradle of disease?

04 Jul 2013

A student-led conference to be webcast live will ask, in light of recent research, whether the story of human origin is radically different from...

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Mexican Howler Monkey

High stress levels found in monkeys forced to spend more time foraging

24 Jan 2013

New research shows that disturbed habitats are resulting in increasingly poor diets for monkeys, and that the additional time and energy required to...

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Amazon rainforest

Leading the battle to protect the Amazon

09 Jan 2013

A graduate of Cambridge’s fledgling MPhil in Conservation Leadership returned last month to speak to current students about his vital work to protect...

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Oil palm plantation

Climate chemistry and the tropics

05 Oct 2012

New models are being developed to predict how changing land use in the tropics could affect future climate, air quality and crop production.

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The Mount Mabu Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus mabuensis) as discovered by Dr Julian Bayliss, one of the four new species of African Horseshoe bat.

Multidisciplinary approach unlocks ‘cryptic’ African bat revealing four new species

13 Sep 2012

Latest research has discovered four new species of Horseshoe bat in Africa by piecing together clues such as DNA data and sonar frequency. This...

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The plant used in the rainforest remedy

Rainforest remedy could spell end of dental pain

14 Mar 2012

An ancient Incan toothache remedy – for centuries handed down among an indigenous people in the rainforests of Peru – could be on the cusp of...

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