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The twelfth conference of the series in March 2011 was attended by over 300 people including 186 postgraduate students from 63 countries and 80 staff from 23 conservation agencies and NGOs.
Student Conference on Conservation Science, 22 -24 March 2011
PROGRAMME
Tuesday 22 March 2011
08.30 - 09.30 Registration in Zoology Department (Elementary Lab)09.30 - 09.45 Welcome Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz (Vice-Chancellor, U of Cambridge)
09.45 - 10.00 Introduction to the conference Rosie Trevelyan (Tropical Biology Association)
10.00 - 11.00 Plenary: Conservation at the crossroads: what could the oceans be like by 2025?
Professor Jeremy Jackson (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA) Chair: Andrew Sugden (Science)
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee (Elementary Lab)
11.30 – 12.50 Student talks: Session 1 New perspectives on human-wildlife conflict
Chair: Chris Sandbrook (UNEP-WCMC/Geography, U of Cambridge)
Retribution killings of predators in South Africa Freya St John (UK)
When wolves show up for dinner uninvited Sérgio Milheiras (Portugal)
Land, lions and livestock: a conservation enigma from Greater Gir, India Kausik Banerjee (India)
Can education influence children’s knowledge and attitudes to the guiña? Peter Damerell (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 Innovative approaches to site-based conservation
Chair: Juliet Vickery (RSPB)
Assessing the socio-ecological resilience of Marine Protected Areas Juliana Lopez Angarita (Colombia)
Conserving large marine ecosystems through private sector engagement Rico Ancog (Philippines)
Assessing the potential for community-based protected areas in India Arun Kanagavel (India)
Private conservation initiatives in Amazonian countries Bruno Monteferri (Peru)
Tibetan sacred sites and conservation Emily Woodhouse (UK)
17.40 – 18.40 Who’s who in conservation? (with food (pizza), in Elementary Lab)
18.45 – 19.45 Wine reception, sponsored by Science (Zoology Museum)
19.45 – 21.30 Plenary (Babbage Lecture Theatre):
All creatures great and small: How biodiversity is seen by earth system scientists and the makers of international policy
Professor Wolfgang Cramer (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany)
Chair: Peter Brotherton (Natural England)
Wednesday 23 March 2011
08.30 - 09.00 Registration (Elementary Lab)
Professor Kerry Turner (University of East Anglia, UK)
Chair: Leon Bennun (BirdLife International)
10.00 - 11.00 Student talks: Session 3 REDD in the real world
Chair: Paul Herbertson (FFI)
Can REDD programmes be a tool for conservation? The jaguar on the spot Alan de Barros (Brazil)
Inequity in REDD governance Sumana Datta (India)
REDD and the indigenous question: a case study from Ecuador Pablo Reed (Ecuador)
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee (and posters to be set up by contributors in Elementary Lab)
11.30 – 13.10 Student talks: Session 4 Impacts of climate change
Chair: Nathalie Doswald (UNEP-WCMC)
Assessing the impact of climate change on Madagascar’s endemic baobabs Aida Cuni Sanchez (Spain)
Are butterflies expanding their altitudinal ranges in Papua New Guinea? Legi Sam (Papua New Guinea)
Modelling range boundaries to assess climate-induced range shifts Uri Roll (Israel)
Water needs and the likely response to hydrological change of fynbos plants James Ayuk (Cameroon)
Experimental foodwebs under habitat fragmentation and climate change Giselle Perdomo (Venezuela)
13.10 – 15.00 Lunch and posters (Elementary Lab)
15.00 Conference photograph (meet on lawn in front of the whale)
15.20 – 16.00 Student talks: Session 5 Conservation of African plants
Chair: Harriet Gillett (UNEP-WCMC)
Isolation of individuals in a gregarious tree species Fortuné Azihou (Benin)
Conservation status of an endangered frankincense tree Abeje Wassie (Ethiopia)
16.00 - 16.30 Tea (Elementary Lab)
16.30 – 17.30 Student talks: Session 6 People and conservation
Chair: Phil Atkinson (BTO)
Impacts of post-Soviet and current changes in agriculture on grassland birds Ruslan Urazaliyev (Kazakhstan)
Ecosystem services at Important bird Areas: a case study from Nepal Menuka Basnyat (Nepal)
A critical analysis of Ireland’s national biodiversity awareness campaign Paola Pisa (Ireland)
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 24 March 2011
08.30 - 09.00 Registration (Elementary Lab)
09.00 - 10.40 Student talks: Session 7 Threats and management responses
Chair: Lynn Dicks (Zoology, U of Cambridge)
Recovery of forest amphibian communities after logging Gilbert Adum (Ghana)
Conservation of the Chinese white dolphin Lijun Liu (China)
Blackbuck social behaviour influences dispersal of an invasive plant Shivani Jadeja (India)
Conservation status and needs of the world’s most threatened tortoise Angelo Mandimbihasina (Madagascar)
The UK great bustard reintroduction trial Robert Burnside (UK)
10.40 - 11.10 Coffee (Elementary Lab)
Professor E.J. Milner-Gulland (Imperial College London, UK)
Chair: Tony Whitten (FFI)
12.10 – 13.10 Student talks: Session 8 Forest fragmentation and small mammals
Chair: Kelvin Peh (Zoology, U of Cambridge)
The effect of canopy fragmentation on grizzled giant squirrels Ipsita Herlekar (India)
Distribution and habitat occupancy of slender lorises Saman Gamage (Sri Lanka)
Spatial ecology and conservation of an arboreal marsupial Francisco Fonturbel (Chile)
13.10 - 14.40 Lunch and posters (Elementary Lab)
14.40 - 15.20 Student talks: Session 9 Hunting in the Amazon
Chair: Marcus Rowcliffe (Institute of Zoology)
Cascading effects of hunting on fruit-frugivore networks Joseph Hawes (UK)
Subsistence hunting at saltlicks Jaime Andrés Cabrera (Colombia)
15.20 – 15.50 Tea (Elementary Lab)
15.50 – 16.10 Prizes
16.10 Closing remarks
