2026 Student Conference on Conservation Science SCCS 2026 took place between 31 March – 2 April 2026. Thank you to everyone who took part – in person and online! We welcomed 155 delegates in person to Cambridge and over 300 were registered to join us online. Over the three days, there were 4 fantastic plenary talks, 32 talks from delegates and 83 posters. We had 23 conservation organisations as exhibitors at the Who’s Who in Conservation Science and we ran 16 workshops for delegates on topics such as funding and grant-applications, ethics, scientific publishing, statistics and economics, as well as survey and programme design, diversity and inclusion, social media and impact. The talks covered everything from seaweed farming to the deaths of Nepal’s rhinos, from artificial intelligence for snow leopards to rethinking tourism growth in the Galápagos. The posters included projects on tiger recovery in India, coypu monitoring in Lombardy and the competition between water voles and brown rats in urban Cambridge. The conference exists so that the next generation of conservation scientists can meet and exchange ideas with their peers, and get feedback on their research from leading conservation professionals. Why not apply to join us for SCCS 2027? 2027 Student Conference on Conservation Science The next conference will be held from 30 March to 1 April 2027. We are delighted to announce that our plenary speakers will be: Diogo Verissimo, University of Oxford Isabelle Côté, Simon Fraser University Binbin Li, Duke Kunshan University Charu Mishra, Snow Leopard Trust Online attendance Who can attend? Talks and Posters Networking & Workshops 25years 814student talks 2060posters 4057delegates 144countries represented 376bursaries and grants awarded 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 25 years, SCCS Cambridge has hosted over 4,000 delegates from 144 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 In addition to Cambridge, there are now SCCS events in Hungary, India, Sweden and the USA, with some possible additions in the next few years. SCCS Europe 1 – 5 September 2026 SCCS Bengaluru 28 September – 1 October 2026 SCCS New York 14-16 October 2026 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) Chris Sandbrook (University of Cambridge) Bob Smith (University of Kent) Freya St John (Bangor University) Ruth Swetnam (The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts) Tom Worthington (University of Cambridge) Kalsum Mohd Yusah (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)