Previous conference - Programme
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.
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)
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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)
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
