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For immediate release: 28th March 2011
Wildlife Trust’s Brian Eversham at the Cambridge Science Festival
A Wildlife Trust event at the Cambridge Science Festival, hosted by the Trust’s education partner Cambridge University Press, attracted a distinguished audience from both NGO, academic and business communities.
They came to listen to The Trust’s Chief Executive, Brian Eversham, delivering a talk on the decline of Wildlife in the UK and Cambridge over the last century, and what The Wildlife Trust amongst others are doing to halt this change.
The room had a full audience, and they heard Brian talking about the drivers behind this decline, from Urbanisation and Agricultural Intensification, to the current impacts and threats from Climate Change.
Mr Eversham gave a short history of the conservation movement in the UK, before giving detailed examples of the loss of habitat and individual species in the Cambridge area and the local Wildlife Trust’s ambitious plans to reverse this change by making their nature reserves bigger, better, and more joined up.
Afterwards people gathered over drinks to talk more about both local and global wildlife issues of importance. Among them were Sir Partha Dasgupta, the Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics at Cambridge University, along with Dr Ken Moody a Fellow at Kings College, Cambridge and Professor Peter Grubb, Emeritus Professor of botany at Cambridge University. Dr Matt Walpole, of the United Nations Environment Programme’s World Conservation Monitoring Centre also spoke to Brian Eversham.
Also present were Professor David Gowing, of the Open University, Professor Jean Bacon from the University of Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory, as well as Dr Alistair Grant, Dr Hester Goddard from the Papworth Hospital NHS Trust and Professor Sir Peter Lachmann, Fellow of Christ’s College and emeritus Sheila Joan Smith Professor of Immunology at Cambridge University.
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