ICCS member Rebecca Short took part in a panel at Imperial College, London, to mark International Women's day and was inspired to write a blog. She notes that International Women’s Day was a bit of a minefield for her this year.  Whilst she openly supports feminist ideals, and says that while she is "marginally vocal in the fight for parity in science and conservation", she's recently come to…

Today, on International Women's Day we are celebrating women in conservation. 

ICCS is happy to support a women's embroidery programme in Uzbekistan, which helps save saigas as well as empowering women in rural communities.

The Saiga Conservation Alliance, founded by the group's Director E.J. Milner-Gulland helps women in rural areas learn traditional embroidery skills and run…

At the global scale, conservation research does not always influence conservation action. Partly because of this, more and more species are becoming extinct. In the context of the uncertain consequences of climate change, this gap between research and action can widen. As such, we need to further explore…

Glyn Davies, Executive Director of Global Programmes, WWF-UK, will be joining us to talk about the NGO’s six ‘Big Win’ targets.

Now that they are over half-way through their current five year strategy he’ll outline how far they’ve come, how they are working to achieve the targets, and what constraints they have yet to overcome.

Join us if you’re interested in hearing about how…

Lion bones have now joined elephant ivory and rhino horn as contentious commodities in the wildlife trade policy arena. This follows revelations of a growing export market of bones from deceased captive-bred lions from South Africa to Southeast Asia – and sharply divided opinions over how policy-makers should respond to this.

Read Michael t' Sas-Rolfes interesting new blog where he…