Many businesses seek to develop biodiversity indicators to inform business decision-making. However, nature is complex, and serious challenges exist to develop indicators that can cut through this complexity and display clear and simple measures of biodiversity through space and time that are relevant to business needs.

Read our new blog on the emerging illegal trade of jaguar parts. 

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According to a recent report, from 2014 to 2016, 344 jaguar fangs (implying the killing of at least 87 jaguars) destined for China, were seized by the Bolivian Forestry and Environment Police (POFOMA) and the Bolivian Postal Company (ECOBOL). The authors of the report also found that radio advertisements and flyers promoting jaguar trade were being distributed in towns in northern Bolivia.

The melody of a thousand stars in the night sky, wrapped us all with a serenity that is hard to put into words. I sat there, starring at the stars with my host Sonam, of a little known Shalkar village, tucked away in a remote corner of Upper Kinnaur, India. In such places, it is easy to believe that life is all quiet and easy. Little do we outsiders know, however, that even such…

The Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science (ICCS) at the University of Oxford, Stirling Conservation Science (STI-CS) at the University of Stirling, and the Centre for Integrative Ecology at Deakin University, are pleased to invite PhD students and early-career researchers (up to five year post-graduation) in the field of conservation science to apply to participate in a three-day…