When imagining a stereotypical conservationist, people may think that we spend our time running around the forests counting chimpanzees. However, conservationists increasingly appreciate the need to understand the role of humans in conservation issues, or learn from how some have successfully protected an area or species from ongoing or emerging threats. Conservationists now…

As it turns out, early-career interdisciplinary conservation researchers are much like painted ladies.

At some point early in the British summer, in odd or sometimes consistent years (the reasons of which are not fully known to science), groups of well-…

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

I research antibiotic-resistant bacteria. In the past, before we discovered antibiotics, bacterial infections were extremely deadly. Once we had discovered antibiotics in the early 1900s, we were able…

Anna Veprik is a researcher in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics in the University of Oxford. She is trying to understand how various endocrine cells are sensing nutrient availability and translate it…

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.

The traditional process of writing a scientific paper proceeds as follows: a researcher (or researchers) has a new and interesting idea, designs a study to…

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…