2025 Student Conference on Conservation Science This year’s SCCS conference will run from Tuesday 1 April to Thursday 3 April 2025. It will be held at the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. There will be around 30 talks and 75 posters from students and early career researchers over the three days. We expect to welcome around 180 delegates from all over the world to Cambridge for this unrivalled opportunity to meet with others passionate about conservation science. Map showing where last years attendees came from. Kindly produced by Emily Wenban-Smith. Applications for SCCS 2025 are now closed. We are also delighted to be having talks from our four plenary speakers: Brendan Godley, University of Exeter Melissa Leach, Cambridge Conservation Initiative Sarobidy Rakotonarivo, University of Antananarivo; Mitsilto Bernardo Strassburg, International Institute for Sustainability; re.green Who can attend? Talks and Posters Workshops and networking Bursaries 24years 32student talks 78posters 23exhibitors 14workshops 300online Zoom places taken up 41countries represented in person The Student Conference on Conservation Science series in Bengaluru, Europe and New York is the only international series of conservation conferences aimed entirely at students. SCCS helps early career conservation scientists gain experience, learn new ideas and make contacts that will be valuable for their future careers. Over the past 24 years, SCCS Cambridge has hosted over 3,400 delegates from 136 countries worldwide. “You cannot have a healthy human society on an unhealthy planet” Yolanda Kakabadse (Former Minister of Environment, Ecuador) speaking at SCCS 2022 The SCCS family The SCCS family is growing fast! In addition to the flagship event in Cambridge, there are now SCCS events in India, Hungary and the USA, with some more possible additions in the next few years. SCCS Bengaluru 21 -24 October 2024 SCCS Europe 11-14 September 2024 SCCS New York 09 – 11 October 2024 Our Sponsors and Supporters SCCS depends on a large team of professionals and volunteers who freely give their time and energy to ensure the success of each event. The organisers of SCCS Cambridge are immensely grateful for the ongoing support from our sponsors and prize givers. Click on the buttons to find out more. More About our Sponsors More About our Prize Givers Thanks to our sponsors… …and Prize givers SCCS Organisers Claire Davies (University of Cambridge) Andrew Balmford (University of Cambridge) Rob Fletcher (University of Cambridge) Rosie Trevelyan (Tropical Biology Association) SCCS Advisory Committee Guy Cowlishaw (Zoological Society of London) Rhys Green (University of Cambridge) Julia Jones (Bangor University) Chris Sandbrook (University of Cambridge) Bob Smith (University of Kent) Ruth Swetnam (The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts) Juliet Vickery (BTO) Kalsum Mohd Yusah (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew)