New publication with authors including Insect Group researchers, and focussed on oil palm cultivation in Africa. Give it a read!

Our new paper is out! 🚨

We systematically mapped research on oil palm in Africa and present the Sustainable Oil Palm in West Africa (SOPWA) Project: a large-scale field-based study occurring in Liberia.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congrats, Jonny, on a superb piece of work! We look forward to continuing to collaborate and seeing all you do next during your PhD University of Liverpool!

My PhD thesis is out and it is open access!! 👇 doi.org/10.17863/CAM.1…

Thanks to Edgar Turner and Sarah Luke (my supervisors), and Insect Ecology Group! 🥳

New blog post on the Cambridge-Africa website by Benedictus Freeman and me, outlining our palm oil-related project in Liberia. Many thanks to Cambridge-Africa for supporting our collab. research over the last year!

shorturl.at/ahiBO

New paper published in PLOS ONE 📊

We analysed children's drawings to see what they could tell us about children's perceptions of local wildlife 🎨

#OpenAccess link:
journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Key results below 👇

We are recruiting for our Professorship in Conservation Biology Dept of Zoology - most prestigious position in conservation Cambridge University.

Further details here, and please circulate. It's an international call - jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/41785/

Get in touch with any questions!

A wonderfully busy day volunteering at Royal Entomological Society’s stunning #RESGarden at #RHSChelsea , chatting to gardeners about how we can make outdoor spaces a haven for insects.

You can now show the garden some love by voting for it in the People’s Choice Award: bbc.co.uk/programmes/art…

Fantastic day The RHS #ChelseaFlowerShow on Royal Entomological Society garden, enthusing about #insects & #Entomology

Vote for the garden in the People’s Choice Awards: bbc.co.uk/programmes/art…

Light evenings only mean one thing—the return of The Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants Cambridge Local Group summer events!💫

Join us at 9pm on Mon 29th May for a guided bat walk at Byron's Pool 🦇

Meet in the car park: cambridge.gov.uk/byrons-pool-lo…

No booking needed, but any donations go to The Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants

Did you miss the #VerrallLecture 23 with Edgar Turner on managing #tropical #ecosystems for #insect #biodiversity ?

Now you can catch up on YouTube:
youtu.be/On3NqKzxFyw

Read more about the #VerrallLecture :
royensoc.co.uk/event/verrall-…

#Entomology #Science #Lecture #Research

'Lights, camera, insects? Invertebrates missing out on starring screen roles'

Read The Guardian write-up of our recent People and Nature paper on nature documentaries 🐜🎥

Thanks to Sofia Quaglia for a really fun interview! ( #OpenAccess link to paper ⬇️)

theguardian.com/environment/20…

First day of #SCCS2023 , and it feels a whole week has passed! Such amazing delegates, plenaries, talks, posters... also the most diverse conference I ever attended!!
(I promise I'll take better pics tomorrow) Dept of Zoology Cambridge Conservation Initiative

Excited to be presenting at #SCCS2023 tomorrow. Looking forward to talking about #reptiles #rewilding and the Marna Banggara Project Student Conference on Conservation Science-BNG.

Are wildlife documentaries showing us the ‘real’ natural world? recent paper in People and Nature led by Kate Howlett Edgar Turner doi.org/10.1002/pan3.1… cam.ac.uk/stories/are-wi…

For our March blog post, MPhil student Jonny Timperley tells us all about his research in Liberian oil palm plantations with Michael Pashkevich and about what brought him here.

Read here: zoo.cam.ac.uk/research/group…

Are wildlife documentaries too focused on mammals and birds? 🐘🐦

New Dept of Zoology research has found that nature documentaries are portraying a biased view of the natural world, and invertebrates aren't getting enough attention...

Kate Howlett Natural Environment Research Council
cam.ac.uk/stories/are-wi…

Did you miss the #VerrallLecture 23 with Edgar Turner on managing #tropical #ecosystems for #insect #biodiversity ?

Now you can catch up on YouTube:
youtu.be/On3NqKzxFyw

Read more about the #VerrallLecture :
royensoc.co.uk/event/verrall-…

#Entomology #Science #Lecture #Research

Paid internships this summer. Super chance to gain ecological field experience with experts, including #bee sampling with us Dept of Zoology Apply before 9am, 27 March Pls RT BES careers REED Ecological Network Royal Entomological Society Helen Roy @EntoMasters UEA CEEC Bumblebee Conservation Trust Buglife

Watch this space for a Q&A with Becky Heath to hear about her upcoming work on riparian buffers BEFTA Programme!