This week we celebrated Professor Mark Brown’s appointment as Director of the University Museum of Zoology and Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology. His inaugural lecture, ‘Through the lens of a bee: from the past to the future’, surveyed his ground-breaking research on bees, in the context of past, present and...

The 25th Student Conference on Conservation Science takes place here in Zoology next week. Conservationists and students from across the globe will travel to Cambridge to take part. Four delegates told us about the importance of the event to them, and to their research. Fetratiana Rakotomanga University of Antananarivo...

Research groups in this Department are playing an important part in Europe’s response to pollinator decline. Through their participation in the EU-funded Safeguard and RestPoll projects, our researchers contribute significantly both to practical guidance and to policy advice for everyone interested in pollinator and nature...

A recent paper led by Dr Arik Kershenbaum , a College Associate Professor here in Zoology, describes how both wildlife and humans could benefit from networks of acoustic detectors to monitor tiger activity in Nepal. Here Dr Kershenbaum writes about his group's research, and how a faux tiger skin came in handy. kershenbaum_...