Oral vaccine offers hope for ape species ravaged by Ebola and other diseases, as it can be widely dispersed to save more wild animals. However, scientists say recent law changes on captive chimpanzee testing may stop the conservation work in its tracks.
There is a dilemma in contemporary conservation: how to balance modernisation, people鈥檚 rights and environmentalism. Nowhere is this visible that in Kaziranga, India, writes Dr Bhaskar Vira, Director of the 探花直播 of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute for 探花直播Conversation.
Scientists hope a new approach to planning road infrastructure that could increase crop yield in the Greater Mekong region while limiting environmental destruction will open dialogues between developers and the conservation community.
探花直播augmented reality game, designed for mobile devices, allows users to capture, battle and train virtual creatures called Pok茅mon that appear on screen as if part of the real-world environment. But can the game's enormous success deliver any lessons to the fields of natural history and conservation?
Bhaskar Vira and Eszter Kovacs (Department of Geography and 探花直播 of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute) discuss how lessons learned about water management in Nepal and India can guide how cities can be made "ecologically smart".
New research shows investing in elephant conservation is smart economic policy for many African countries.聽
Disco Tony has travelled over 5,000 miles. He is grey with a yellow ring around his eyes. He is a cuckoo, but not just any cuckoo. He is one of a very special group of birds whose every move is being monitored.
Biodiversity, the variety of plant and animal life in the world, is a fundamental component of 鈥榥atural capital鈥 that businesses are dependent upon but which often gets overlooked in assessments of their environmental impact, according to a new report by members of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI).聽
A generous award will allow King鈥檚 College to catalogue and conserve an important part of an outstanding collection of rare books given to the College by George Thackeray, a former Provost. Behind the Thackeray Collection lies an intriguing and tragic personal story.
A tree the height of 20 London double-decker buses has been discovered in Malaysia by conservation scientists monitoring the impact of human activity on the biodiversity of a pristine rainforest. 探花直播tree, a Yellow聽 Meranti, is one of the species that can be grown in the computer game Minecraft.
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