Overseas consumer markets could be responsible for more than half of the impact of expanding soy production on rare species in one of the world’s most biodiverse regions, the Cerrado savannah in Brazil, according to a new article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The paper, “ Linking global...

james_herbert-read.jpg We are delighted to welcome Dr James Herbert-Read as the new departmental lecturer in Marine Biology. Dr Herbert-Read joins us from the University of Bristol where he was a Research Associate in the School of Biological Sciences. James has a broad interest in behavioural ecology and marine biology...

h_t_soppitt_-_courtesy_of_tolson_memorial_museum_huddersfield.jpg We are delighted to offer congratulations to our PhD student Nathan Smith who has won the Society for the History of Natural History’s William T Stearn Student Essay Prize. William T Stearn, CBE, born in Chesterton, Cambridge, became an outstanding botanical...

Research by the University of Cambridge and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has identified some key mismatches between global biodiversity conservation priorities and global conservation effort. Conservation resources are scare, biodiversity loss is occurring at an unprecedented rate, and there is...