Student Conference on Conservation Science

University of Cambridge
27 - 29 March 2007

Plenary speakers

David Cooper (CBD Secretariat, Canada)
Professor Norman Myers (University of Oxford, UK)
Professor Hugh Possingham (University of Queensland, Australia)
Professor Lu Zhi (Conservation International, China)

Your contribution

The most important part of the three-day programme will be poster sessions and 35 fifteen minute talks by students on any aspect of conservation science. Presentations of work in progress, from a broad range of countries, and from economic and social as well as biological aspects of conservation, will all be welcome. Besides the posters and talks, there will also be workshops, presentations by conservation NGOs and agencies and social events designed to give participants the opportunity to make new contacts in their own and related disciplines. Prizes are awarded to posters and talks of outstanding quality and relevance to conservation.

Click here for a guide to help you prepare talks, audiovisual aids and posters for SCCS 2007.

Costs and benefits

The conference fee, including registration, tea and coffee and three evening events, is £30. Accommodation and breakfast will be available in a college near the conference venue at a highly subsidised rate of £10 per person per night. However, if you can stay elsewhere, this will help us to keep the prices low. Lunchtime sandwiches can be bought in the Zoology Department, while reasonably priced evening meals are available nearby.

Registration

Please fill in and return the application form by 15 November 2006. On it, you are invited to submit a short abstract of your proposed talk or poster, but it is not essential to present a talk or poster in order to attend. If you are coming from a developing country or eastern Europe you can also apply for a bursary (see application form) to assist with travel and other costs, but please note that we are only able to help a small number of applicants. Send completed forms to sccs@zoo.cam.ac.uk.

Organisers and sponsors

The Student Conference on Conservation Science is run by:

Andrew Balmford¹, Rhys Green^1,2, Rosie Trevelyan³ and Renuka Badhe.

¹Conservation Biology Group,
Department of Zoology,
University of Cambridge.
²RSPB
³Tropical Biology Association

Organising committee:

Bill Adams (University of Cambridge)
Guy Cowlishaw (Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London)
Lincoln Fishpool (Birdlife International)
Shahina Ghazanfar (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
Nigel Leader-Williams (DICE, University of Kent)
Madhu Rao (Wildlife Conservation Society)
Bill Sutherland (University of East Anglia)