Dr Rosie Trevelyan MBE, Director of the Cambridge office of the Tropical Biology Association (TBA) at the CCI, has won the Frankfurt Conservation Award (Bruno H. Schubert Prize) 2025 for outstanding achievements in teaching related to nature and environmental protection. The award citation recognises her dedicated teaching...

Field courses are a key part of our undergraduate teaching: they help students put the material from their lectures in context, develop a spirit of curiosity, and engage with each other and their teachers in a more informal environment. Dr Hamish Symington , Postdoctoral Researcher in the Glover Lab, Department of Plant...

A recent paper published in the journal Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, co-authored by Jonathan Timperley, Prof Edgar Turner and Dr Michael Pahskevich, describes how oil palm farming methods in Liberia affect arthropod diversity, and suggests strategies to protect these key animals and help ensure the long-term...

Insects are the dominant animal life-form on our planet and an essential part of our ecosystems. Yet, despite reports of catastrophic insect declines and potentially imminent ‘insectageddon’, the global state of insect biodiversity remains unclear due in part to a massive lack of data. A study published this week in the...