conservation

Topic description and stories

Saltmarshes starting to be inundated by the tide at Abbots Hall, Cumbria, UK

Climate change: can nature help us?

08 May 2013

Hard-engineered sea walls have a limited life span. Could saltmarshes and mangroves offer a different approach to buffering against storm surges and...

After the flood: harnessing the power of mud

31 Jan 2013

On the 60th Anniversary of the ‘big flood’ that devastated the coastline of eastern England, new research shows that integrating ‘natural’ sea...

Original manuscript of Fauna Cantabrigiensis

̽��ֱ��remarkable notebook of a 19th-century naturalist

09 Jan 2013

A notebook recording the fauna of Cambridgeshire observed and collected by the Reverend Leonard Jenyns between 1820 and 1849 has been published in...

Detail from the cloud forest of Loma Alta in Ecuador, one of the conservation success stories highlighted in the book Wild Hope.

Spreading the good word from the wild

08 Aug 2012

A new book by a Cambridge professor offers an alternative to the narratives of nature’s annihilation, by shining a light on conservation success...

Assessing protected area effectiveness

30 Mar 2012

A new study published in Conservation Letters aims to measure whether parks and reserves in the tropics succeed in protecting forests.

Landscape, literature, life

29 Feb 2012

Over the past few years, the genre of ‘nature writing’ has seen a new sense of urgency, fostered by a growing awareness of a natural world under...

Conservation clusters: making the case

21 Feb 2012

A new study reveals how the gathering together of conservation organisations in one location – a ‘conservation cluster’ – can work best to reap...

̽��ֱ��crystal ball of conservation

15 Feb 2012

An innovative horizon-scanning exercise, which has just delivered its latest report, highlights emerging topics of relevance to the world’s natural...