Happy 94th Birthday to Sir David Attenborough, CCI’s Patron

8th May 2020

Today, we wish a very happy 94th birthday to Sir David Attenborough, CCI’s Patron. We take this opportunity to say an enormous thank you for his ongoing support and commitment to the work of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.

Photo: Phil Mynott @2015 CCI

The CCI Conservation Campus sits within the David Attenborough Building and was opened in 2015.

“Sir David Attenborough’s work, introducing and enthusing millions of people to the beauty, fragility and our scientific understanding of the natural world, made the naming of this building in his honour particularly significant,” said Dr Mike Rands, former Executive Director of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative

 Photo: Phil Mynott @2015 CCI

Sir David has many connections to Cambridge. He read Natural Sciences as an undergraduate student (Clare 1945), is a very good friend of the Museum and Department of Zoology and serves as a Vice-President or Patron for several CCI partners (including RSPB, Fauna & Flora International and BirdLife International). In April 2013 he launched the plans for the CCI Conservation Campus in the Senate House with the former Chancellor HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.