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Keep up to date with the latest CCI updates (CCI News) as well as blogs of lessons learned from the Collaborative Projects and CCI Community (CCI Views).

We know conservation is working, but do we really know what works?

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An opinion piece by Alec Christie, PhD student in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge working in the University…

21st September 2020

Extinction and optimism

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This piece has been written by Dr Stuart Butchart, Chief Scientist at BirdLife International The last few days have seen…

16th September 2020

A thin line between extinction and survival

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This reflective piece has been written by CCI Executive Director, Mike Maunder.  Conservationists carry a particular type of scar tissue, it…

14th September 2020

Who needs a green recovery?

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An opinion piece written by Jonny Hughes, WCMC Chief Executive Officer, UNEP-WCMC/CCI Council Member. A longer version was first published…

9th September 2020

Understanding the social landscape for restoration

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Dr David Thomas, Endangered Landscapes Programme Manager, writes about the importance of social and cultural issues to the success of…

21st August 2020

Birds, Bees and Butter

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Written by Juliet Vickery, Head of International Conservation Science, RSPB about her new paper published in the Journal of Applied…

9th August 2020

Plastic connectivity: disentangling the problem of plastic pollution for pelagic seabirds

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CCI’s Collaborative Fund supports projects on which CCI partners, the University of Cambridge and other conservation organisations collaborate to address…

31st July 2020

Magical moths!

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The David Attenborough Building was redeveloped with lots of features designed to encourage biodiversity, including a green roof planted with…

30th June 2020

World Oceans Day – focus on seabirds

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We’ve extended World Oceans Day celebrations throughout the week, to highlight the range of work done in this area by…

10th June 2020

Out of our depth? The dangers of deep-sea mining

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While biodiversity loss is recognised as a major global environmental problem, the importance of biodiversity in the deep ocean merits…

8th June 2020

World Oceans Day reflections

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Sue Wells introduces World Oceans Day. Since 2008, June 8th has been recognised by the UN as World Oceans Day,…

8th June 2020

Global Swimways

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‘Global Swimways – balancing conservation of migratory fishes and development’, a CCI Collaborative fund project, was launched to positive feedback…

20th May 2020