Student Conference on Conservation Science, 23 -25 March 2010

PROGRAMME

 

Tuesday 23 March 2010

08.30 - 09.30        Registration in Zoology Department (Elementary Lab)

09.30 - 09.45        Welcome                                                     Professor Alison Richard (University of Cambridge)   
09.45 - 10.00        Introduction to the conference            Rosie Trevelyan (Tropical Biology Association)
10.00 - 11.00        Plenary:  The Cinderella story of tropical forests and climate mitigation
                         Professor Ruth DeFries (Columbia University, USA)                          Chair: Jon Hutton (UNEP-WCMC)
 
11.00 - 11.30        Coffee (Elementary Lab)

11.30 – 12.50       Student talks: Session 1                         Habitat fragmentation and conservation corridors     
                                                                                                        Chair: Carlos Peres (University of East Anglia)
Land-cover change, forest fragmentation and gorillas                                                         Bienvenu Takem Mbi (Cameroon)
Habitat fragmentation, predation and bird behaviour                                                         Renzo Vargas (Bolivia)
Conservation value of human-modified habitats in a Costa Rican corridor Alvaro Redondo Brenes (Costa Rica)
The feasibility of a conservation corridor in Peru                                                                Daniela Lainez del Pozo (Peru)

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                         People and livelihoods
                                                                                                       Chair: David Thomas (BirdLife International)
Can commercializing traditional knowledge help conservation?                                    Giulia Sajeva (Italy)
Modeling resource use in Maputaland                                                                      Bruno Nhancale (Mozambique)
Estimating the resource potential of Amazonian extractive reserves                              Peter Newton (UK)
Market forces, resource management and biodiversity in Kichwa communities         Johan Oldekop (Germany)
Seaweed farming: can it reduce fishing pressure on coral reefs?                                     Nick Hill (UK)

18.00 – 19.00       Who’s who in conservation?  (with pizza, in Elementary Lab)

19.00 – 20.45       Wine reception, sponsored by Science (in Zoology Museum)
Introduction to plenary (Babbage Lecture Theatre)                               Sir Graham Wynne (RSPB)
Plenary:  Conservation - where we have come from and where we are going
                                Tony Juniper (Prince of Wales’ Rainforest Project and the Green Party, UK)

               
  

Wednesday 24 March 2010

08.30 - 09.00        Registration (Elementary Lab)

09.00 - 10.00        Plenary:  The science and art of saving wild tigers
                         Professor Ullas Karanth (Wildlife Conservation Society, India)     Chair: Eleanor Sterling (AMNH)

10.00 - 11.00        Student talks: Session 3                         Human-wildlife conflict
                                                                                                        Chair: Philip Bubb (UNEP-WCMC)
Local attitudes to human-carnivore conflicts in Benin                                               Etotépé Sogbohossou (Benin)
Fruitbats and people: managing conflict in Madagascar                                             A. Andrianaivoarivelo (Madagascar)
Different stakeholders’ perceptions of human-wildlife conflicts in China                     Yufang Gao (China)

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

11.30 – 13.10       Student talks: Session 4                         New challenges in conservation
                                                                                                        Chair: Ali Johnston (British Trust for Ornithology)
Vulnerability of the Caribbean UK Overseas Territories to climate change                    Johanna Forster (UK)
Conservation of a critically endangered palm in the Great Sahara                                 Haitham Ibrahim (Egypt)
Lion trophy hunting in the Selous: is it sustainable?                                                    Henry Brink (Denmark)
Impact of fencing and livestock on the survival of Przewalski’s gazelle                        Lu Zhang (China)
Apes and carbon in Indonesia                                                                                     Megan Cattau (USA)

13.10 – 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                         Aquatic conservation
                                                                                                       Chair: Mark Spalding (The Nature Conservancy)
Aliens in Wonderland: exotic fish invasion in the Western Ghats                                   Krishnakumar Krishnakaimal (India)
Trouble brewing: the effects of tea plantations on stream invertebrates                          Oliver Van Biervliet (UK)
Beach plantations and sea turtle conservation in India                                                       M. Manoharakrishnan (India)

16.00 - 16.30        Tea (Elementary Lab)
                               
16.30 – 17.30       Student talks: Session 6                         Population biology of threatened species
                                                                                                   Chair: Mike Hoffmann (IUCN Species Survival Commission)
The anthropogenic Allee effect as a threat to trophy-hunted ungulates                          Lucille Palazy (France)
Time-lagged responses to landscape change                                                                           Paula Lira (Brazil)
Searching for threat-specific patterns of population decline                                               Martina Di Fonzo (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 25 March 2010

08.30 - 09.00        Registration (Elementary Lab)

09.00 - 10.40        Student talks: Session 7                         Bird conservation
                                                                                                       Chair: Melanie Heath (BirdLife International)
Reintroduced red-billed curassows in the Atlantic rainforest                                          Christine Steiner Sao Bernardo (Brazil)
Movement of red-billed choughs in relation to protected areas                                       Charlotte Bell (UK)
Bengal florican conservation in Assam                                                                            Namita Brahma (India) 
Status and conservation of the great Indian bustard                                                         Sutirtha Dutta (India)
Lesser kestrel ecology and conservation                                                                          Inês Catry (Portugal)

10.40 - 11.10        Coffee (Elementary Lab)

11.10 - 12.10        Plenary: Moving beyond intensive care - the value of studying endangered species
Professor Ken Norris (University of Reading, UK)                               Chair: Katherine Homewood (UCL)

12.10 – 13.10       Student talks: Session 8                         Economics and ecosystem services
                                                                                                       Chair: Ruth Swetnam (University of Cambridge)
Willingness to pay for forest conservation in Peru                                                 Gabriella Torres Alva (Peru)
Can eco-compensation recover Xishuangbanna's forests?                                         Yi Zhuangfang (China)
Socio-economic impacts of a REDD scheme in Mozambique                                        Jovanka Spiric (Serbia)

13.10 - 14.20        Lunch and posters (Elementary Lab)

14.20 - 15.20        Student talks: Session 9                         Planning for climate change
Chair: Monika Bertzky (UNEP-WCMC)
Gap analyses and climate change                                                                              Heini Kujala (Finland)
Aligning species and protected areas under climate change                                           Diogo Alagador (Portugal)
Predator hotspots, climate projections, and marine conservation targets                      Autumn-Lynn Harrison (USA)

15.20 – 15.50       Tea (Elementary Lab)

15.50 - 16.10        Prizes                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
16.10                      Closing remarks                                                                              

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

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