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Conservation is a crisis discipline, and one that is arguably failing. As we face an unprecedented rate of extinction, how do we mainstream biodiversity conservation into global decision-making and sustainable development? In this ...

Professor Charles Foster. University of Oxford Abstract Swifts inhabit the air as few other organisms do. This talk is an account of an attempt by an earthbound man to follow them there: on their ...

Dr. Joe Roman, University of Vermont. If forests are the lungs of the planet, then animals are its arteries, transporting nutrients across vast distances and from the deep sea to the ocean surface. ...

After almost fifty years as a nature conservation practitioner in Malaysia, I see little need for further studies or technical data. Other than the baleful influence of governmental bureaucracy, “The problem is ...

Achieving pressing climate and biodiversity goals demands more than just technological and scientific innovation – it requires deep social, cultural, and political change. However, environmental challenges are often framed as technological and ...

The headlines and statements that come out of COP16 rarely provide the full picture of what has occurred. We are lucky enough to have our Oxford Delegation deeply involved in participation and ...

Dr. Nicola Ranger, University of Oxford Abstract: Eighty years ago in 1944, on the eve of the end of World War II, world leaders came together in Bretton Woods USA with the shared ambition ...

There is general scientific agreement on the need for transformative change in order to address the systemic poly-crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and growing inequalities globally. However, what this transformative change ...

There is a global biodiversity funding gap, and rapid efforts to mobilise private funding to fill this gap. Attempts to commodify biodiversity to create markets and harness return-seeking investment into conservation have ...

Join us for the Good Natured Conservation Optimism Short Film Festival, an evening of inspiring and empowering stories from across the natural world. Conservation Optimism presents an evening of inspiring and empowering stories ...