Events
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December 2021
CCI Conservation seminar: Ending bottom trawling, for seahorses and the seas – Prof Amanda Vincent
Prof Vincent from the University of British Columbia will explain why we need to end bottom trawl fishing in the ocean, using a lens of research, management and policy. Our voyage begins with seahorse conservation and ends with a determination to stop this most destructive of fishing practices globally. We have conducted innovative research on…
A free city-wide celebration of creativity, community and the natural world Saturday 27th November at Wandlebury Country Park, 10am – 3pm Sunday 5th December on Christ’s Pieces (Cambridge), 10am – 3pm Forest of Imagination is a celebration of creativity and the environment, brought to you at a time when there is mounting evidence that being creative and spending…
CCI Conservation seminar: The social costs of keystone species collapse: Evidence from the decline of vultures in India – Dr Eyal Frank
When the patent for a painkiller expired in 1993, cheap generic versions were introduced to the market across the Indian subcontinent and were quickly adopted by livestock farmers. While this benefited livestock agriculture, it unintentionally led to a massive decline in vulture populations that fed on cattle carrion that contained residue of the painkiller. Because vultures…
25+ years of amazing wildlife in and around Cambridge (without really trying…)
Iain Webb has been very lucky to have volunteered, and subsequently worked, for the Trust since graduating and returning to Cambridge in 1995. In that time he has seen/discovered many amazing wildlife spectacles, all within Cambridgeshire. During his talk he will share some of these amazing spectacles (with pictures!) but will also give his secret…
Natural Cambridgeshire Partnership forum meeting & AGM
The quarterly forum, with AGM. Register via Eventbrite- see link below – and joining details will be sent before meeting. Agenda: COP26 and the path to net zero, Sion McGeever (DEFRA) Report of the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Climate Commission, John Shropshire (Commissioner) Land use in Cambridgeshire, Dame Fiona Reynolds and Alice Midmer (Food, Farming &…
January 2022
Amphibian Identification and Ecology Talk
Join Froglife and host ‘London T.O.A.D’ Project manager Emily Millhouse for this exciting talk. Please visit here to buy tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/amphibian-identification-and-ecology-tickets-163508776151.