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
