This 5 minute montage will give you a flavour of the CCI Conservation Campus launch event which took place at the University of Cambridge Senate House on April 02, 2013 and attended by over 400 guests.
An inspiring and insightful lecture by Sir David Attenborough marked the official launch of the Cambridge Conservation Campus. Dr Mike Rands, Executive Director of CCI also gave an overview of CCI and outlined the plans for the future Campus. They were also joined by the V-C of the University of Cambridge and four students currently taking the MPhil in Conservation Leadership. A special guest of honour who graced the event was the former Chancellor of the University, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, a renowned naturalist and the International President of WWF until 1996.
The Campus, due to be complete towards the end of 2015, will become the hub for the world’s largest conservation cluster, the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI). It will be an international centre of interdisciplinary collaboration and outreach that will transform conservation research, policy and practice for the benefit of biodiversity and humanity.
Sir David Attenborough’s entire speech during the CCI Conservation Campus launch can be viewed here http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1457624
The CCI Brochure produced for the event gives an overview of the collaborative initiative. It gives a snapshot of some of the current programmes and projects of CCI and also highlights the plans for the new Conservation Campus.
