Eight landscapes for life announced!
Eight projects will provide a powerful demonstration of nature’s powers of recovery, and of the benefits to be won from restoring biodiversity and natural ecosystem processes to Europe’s landscapes. The …
Restoring marine ecosystems in south western Turkey: an interview with Zafer Kizilkaya
Zafer Kizilkaya is the President and co-founder of Akdeniz Koruma Dernegi, an NGO which aims to conserve natural habitats and restore degraded coastal ecosystems in Turkey. Recipient of a Whitely …
Programme Assistant, Endangered Landscapes Programme
The Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) is a unique collaboration between the University of Cambridge and leading biodiversity conservation organisations in and around Cambridge. The CCI partners together combine and integrate …
Making Space for Nature – past, present and future. A talk by Professor Sir John Lawton
Professor Sir John Lawton is chair of the Endangered Landscapes Programme’s Oversight and Selection Panel. Sir John has played a major part in promoting UK-wide wildlife conservation, leading the ‘Lawton …
What do we need to know to achieve Europe’s restoration targets?
A paper published today in the journal Biological Conservation identifies 100 questions that, if answered, would make a significant difference to the restoration of Europe’s terrestrial and marine environments. The …
Evidence-based restoration – launching a new tool
Restoration is not easy to achieve. To put back habitats where they have been lost, recreate functioning ecosystems, and attract key species to return takes a lot of hard work, …
Six voices on landscape restoration in Europe
Overall, across the European Union, 37% of terrestrial and freshwater habitats have been assessed as Vulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered. Mires and bogs, grasslands, freshwaters and coastal habitats in particular …
Priority questions for landscape restoration in Europe workshop, 21-22 Nov 2017
Fragmentation and loss of habitat have been identified as key factors hampering biodiversity conservation in Europe. Experts are currently gathering at a two-day workshop hosted at the David Attenborough Building …
Applying to the Endangered Landscapes Programme – First deadline 21st August 2017
Application to the Endangered Landscapes Programme is through an invitation-only, closed call for Expressions of Interest. The deadline for EoIs is 21st August 2017. The programme has invited 21 networks and …
Endangered Landscapes Programme appoints Sir John Lawton CBE FRS as chair of its Oversight and Selection Panel
The Cambridge Conservation Initiative is delighted to announce that Professor Sir John Lawton has accepted an invitation to chair the Oversight and Selection Panel for the new Endangered Landscapes Programme …