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The ninth conference of the series in March 2008 was attended by over 290 people including 200 postgraduate students from 60 countries and 70 staff from 32 conservation agencies and NGOs.

Tuesday 25 March 2008

08.30 - 09.30        Registration in Zoology Department (Elementary Lab)

09.30 - 09.45        Welcome                                                       Professor Steve Hopper
                                                                                             (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)    
09.45 - 10.00        Introduction to the conference               
10.00 - 11.00        Plenary:  Key challenges for conservation in the 21st Century: overcoming barriers for
                         building a transdisciplinary conservation science
                         Professor Richard Cowling (Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa)
 
11.00 - 11.30        Coffee (Elementary Lab)

11.30 – 12.50       Student talks: Session 1                             People and conservation          
                                                                                      Chair: Dr Bhaskar Vira
                                                                                      (Geography, University of Cambridge)
Who benefits from protected areas?                                                           Josephine Booth (UK)
Land tenure, protected sites and livelihoods in Cameroon                             Ivo Ngome (Cameroon)
Mitigation of human-wildlife conflict in Uganda                                            Edward Andama (Uganda)
Integrating development with conservation- linking benefits to behaviour        Chloe Hodgkinson (UK)

12.50 - 14.00        Lunch (Elementary Lab)

14.00 - 15.30        Workshops: Session 1

15.30 - 16.00        Tea (Elementary Lab)

16.00 – 17.40       Student talks: Session 2                             Marine conservation
                                                                                       Chair: Dr Kristian Teleki
                                                                                       (International Coral Reef Action Network)
Impacts of coastal development on coral reefs in Bonaire                           Maria C. Uyarra (Spain)
Predicting vulnerability of marine fishes of the Philippines                          Margarita Lavides (Philippines)
The pathogen load of large cetaceans from Baja California                         Agnes Rocha (Mexico)
The tourist values of an MPA: A case study from Belize                              Venetia   Hargreaves-Allen (UK)
Should we protect the strong or the weak? Risk and resilience in MPAs       Eddie Game (Australia)

18.00 – 19.30       Who’s who in conservation?  (with pizza, in Elementary Lab)

19.30 – 21.00       Wine reception in Zoology Museum, sponsored by Science
00000000000000Introduction to plenary                             Chair: Michael McCarthy (The Independent)
00000000000000Plenary:  History and Destiny in World Fisheries
00000000000000Professor Carl Safina (Blue Ocean Institute, USA)
0000000000000000(in Babbage Lecture Theatre)
                           

 

Wednesday 26 March 2008

08.30 - 09.00        Registration (Elementary Lab)
09.00 - 10.00        Plenary:  Quantitative criteria for assessing extinction risk of terrestrial ecosystems
                                Dr Jon Paul Rodríguez (Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research)

10.00 - 11.00        Student talks: Session 3                             Forests
                                                                                        Chair: Dr Val Kapos
                                                                                        (Cambridge Conservation Forum)
Area and edge effects on understorey birds in Brazil's Atlantic Forest         Cristina Banks (Brazil)
Assessing land cover change in the Western Ghats                                    Shijo Joseph (India)
Exploring the biodiversity - oil palm paradox                                             Emily Fitzherbert (UK)

11.00 - 11.30        Coffee (and posters to be set up by contributors in Elementary Lab)

11.30 – 12.50       Student talks: Session 4                             Understanding threats to biodiversity
                                                                                      Chair: Mr Hari Balasubramanian (Conservation International)
Spatial variation in correlates of global mammalian extinction risk               Susanne Fritz (UK)
Rethinking the species-area relationship for conservation                         Tiffany Bogich (USA)
The impact of pesticides on pollinator diversity and services                     Claire Brittain (UK)
Evaluating ecosystem sensitivity to climate change in Panama                     Laura Tremblay-Boyer (Canada)

12.50 – 14:45       Lunch and posters (Elementary Lab)
14:45                 Conference photograph (meet on lawn in front of the whale)

15.00 – 16.00       Student talks: Session 5                             Mammal conservation
                                                                                       Chair: Dr Rosie Woodroffe
                                                                                       (Institute of Zoology)
Evaluating methods for tiger population and density estimation                   Rishi Sharma (India)
Using biology to enhance elephant conservation in Assam                          Jyoti Das (India)
The effects of contrasting interventions on attitudes to saiga conservation  Caroline Howe (UK)

16.00 - 16.30        Tea (Elementary Lab)
                               
16.30 – 17.30       Student talks: Session 6                             Economics of conservation
                                                                                       Chair: Dr Brendan Fisher
                                                                                       (University of East Anglia)
Ecotourism finances biodiversity protection in the Peruvian Amazon           Chris Kirkby (UK)
Accounting for costs in conservation priority setting: what if we're wrong? Josie Carwardine (Australia)
Patterns of conservation investment in the United States                          Isla Fishburn (UK)

17.30 - 18.45        Posters with wine and food (Elementary Lab)

18.45 - 20.15        Workshops: Session 2

20.30 - 23.30        Party (St Catharine’s College JCR)

 

Thursday 27 March 2008

08.30 - 09.00        Registration (Elementary Lab)

09.00 - 10.00        Plenary: Problems and successes in the conservation of butterflies and other insects
00000000000000Professor Jeremy Thomas (University of Oxford, UK)

10.00 – 11.00       Student talks: Session 7                             Bird conservation
                                                                                       Chair: Dr Mike Brooke
                                                                                       (Zoology, University Cambridge)
Assessing the functional structure of the South African avifauna                Matthew Child (S. Africa)
Recent land cover change in Important Bird Areas of East Africa                George Eshiamwata (Kenya)
The shifting baseline syndrome and perceptions of bird populations           Sarah Papworth (UK)         

 

11.00 - 11.30        Coffee (Elementary Lab)

11.30 – 13.10       Student talks: Session 8                             Sustainable and unsustainable use
                                                                                       Chair: Dr Matt Walpole
                                                                             ---------- (UNEP-WCMC)
Tackling wild meat consumption in Vietnam                                            Rebecca Drury (UK)
The trade in Himalayan black bear gall bladders in Uttarakhand                 Rohit Singh (India)
Sustainable use in Papua New Guinea                                                    Rob Small (UK)
The relationship between HIV/AIDS and harvesting of biodiversity             Sarah Kaschula (South Africa)
Hunting for sustainability in secondary forest                                         Luke Parry (UK)

13.10 - 14.20        Lunch and posters (Elementary Lab)

14.20 - 15.20        Student talks: Session 9                             Multi-species analyses
                                                                                        Chair: Dr Kate Jones
                                                                                        (Institute of Zoology)
Conservation issues of ornamental fishery in Western Ghats                       Pichirikkat Raghavan (India)
Landscape associations and home range use among British bats                  Katherine Boughey (UK)
Impacts of large herbivores on sand forest vegetation in South Africa         Georgette Lagendijk (S. Africa)

15.20 – 15.50       Tea (Elementary Lab)

15.50 - 16.10        Prizes                                               

 16.10      Closing remarks                       

 

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