2025 Student Conference on Conservation Science Thank you to everyone who attended this year’s SCCS – both in-person and online delegates. We hope you enjoyed it and found it a useful and valuable experience. We had 33 amazing talks from delegates, 4 inspiring talks from our plenary speakers, and 62 posters presented by delegates on everything ranging from Kenyan Horned Vipers to Irrawaddy dolphins to Rüppell’s vulture to Bagrid catfish and the introduction of beavers in the UK. We welcomed 151 delegates in person to Cambridge and over 200 were registered to join us online. Please watch this space – details about SCCS 2026 will soon be available! Map showing where last year’s attendees came from. Kindly produced by Emily Wenban-Smith. Our 2025 plenary speakers: Brendan Godley, University of Exeter Melissa Leach, Cambridge Conservation Initiative Sarobidy Rakotonarivo, University of Antananarivo; Mitsilo Bernardo Strassburg, International Institute for Sustainability Who can attend? Talks and Posters Networking & Workshops Guidelines for presenters 24years 33student talks 62posters 23exhibitors 14workshops 230online Zoom places taken up 45countries 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 some 4,000 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 Hungary, India, Sweden and the USA, with some possible additions in the next few years. SCCS Europe 2 – 6 September 2025 SCCS Bengaluru 22 – 25 September 2025 SCCS New York 15 – 17 October 2025 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 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)