The event took place in the beautiful grounds of Magdalen College School, Oxford on Saturday July 1st.

SS: What is the most fascinating aspect of your research?

To produce the paper "Quantifying species recovery and conservation success to develop an IUCN Green List of Species", an international team of collaborators worked to design a system to assess functional recovery of species.

Long-term change in undesirable human behaviour is the holy grail of conservation. Sustainability, and the preservation of biodiversity, require drastic changes in the way we do things, from consumption patterns to improved governance. However, directed sustainable behavioural change is no easy task, as people, social and ecological systems are always changing, share non-linear interactions,…