charlie_ellington_and_r_e_d_holder.jpg Members of the Department were saddened to hear of the death of Professor Charles Ellington, FRS, on Tuesday 30th July 2019. Charlie first joined the Zoology Department as a PhD student in 1973. He subsequently became a lecturer and went on to become Professor. He was elected as a...

The Environmental Audit Committee met in St Catharine’s College Cambridge yesterday (11th June 2019) to take evidence on the threat to the UK and UK Overseas Territories from invasive species. The committee, chaired by Mary Creagh, MP for Wakefield, questioned leading experts in this field on the best ways to manage or...

An exhibition of artworks by one of the world’s leading naturalists – Jonathan Kingdon – is set to open at the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, on 17th May, and will run until 15th September. Kingdon was born in Tanzania in 1935 and lived and worked in East Africa for many years. As well as being one of the world’s...