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The annual programmes of ZSL Science and Conservation Events and Scientific Meetings have included a varied range of topics and speakers. Abstracts have now been made available where possible and can be accessed from the event pages via the links below.

Professor Jeremy Farrar

Health research in the context...

2015 Stamford Raffles Lecture by Professor Jeremy Farrar OBE

Oil palm plantation, image (c) Sophia Gynch

The future of food - the future...

A major scientific symposium to debate the global impacts of UK food...

Dead bird of prey / Ian Carter, Natural England

Health and disease in...

Celebrating 25 years of the Zoological Society of London/Natural...

Conservation science-policy interface

The conservation science/policy...

Good communication between policy makers and scientists is a crucial...

Cyprinodon by Barbara Nicca

Flagship species for freshwater...

Freshwater ecosystems are essential to life on earth yet they receive little...

Image of a hump nosed lizard © RUCHIRA SOMAWEERA

50 years of Red List: past,...

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is one of the most important tools...

Zebra - close-up M. Wegmann

Symposium - Remote sensing for...

22 & 23 May 2014 - Approaches for understanding mechanisms shaping...

Image of a macaque, copyright Isabel Rosa

Global land-use change: causes...

Anthropogenic environmental changes, such as global land use and land cover...

Tokyo skyline by tokyoform, Flickr

Are economic growth and...

Economic growth has undoubtedly improved human livelihoods yet has equally...

Image of a salamander © Frank Pasmans, Ghent University

The devourer of newts: a novel...

Population declines are reported in over 30 per cent of amphibian species...

CSI of the Sea

CSI of the Sea: pollutants in...

A live-streamed porpoise necropsy

Angel shark credit Carlos Suarez Oceanos de Fuego

A new era for shark conservation...

An outline of new conservation plans for protecting lesser-known 'flat...

Pangolin credit Dan Challender

Saving pangolins: Earth's most...

Can we save pangolins from extinction? Come to this free scientific meeting...

Urban Hedgehog

Wildlife and well-being in urban...

A meeting on urban wildlife and urban green spaces

Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa_photo

One Health for the Real World:...

Ecosystems provide services that maintain and improve human wellbeing, such...

Mountain Chicken frog

Conserving the mountain chicken...

The latest findings on the status of the mountain chicken frog.

African bird in man's hand

Stamford Raffles Lecture 2018

Collaborators and con-artists: coevolution as an engine of biodiversity...

Komodo dragon, ZSL

Hot and bothered? Species...

Science and Conservation Event

West African savannah elephant

Wildlife of the West African...

The savannah of West Africa extends from the Atlantic coast eastwards across...

The CSIP team performing a necropsy on a porpoise

CSI of the Sea (online event)

Watch a dolphin post-mortem filmed behind-the-scenes at ZSL on the 12 March...

Beaver, © Makedocreative

What is the future for beavers...

Science and Conservation Event

Thames Harbour Seal, credit Russ Miles

The state of the Thames

Estuaries are one of the world’s most productive ecosystems but their...

The Value of Biodiversity UCL Lecture

The Value of Biodiversity and...

Part of UCL Lunch Hour Lectures on Tour, in partnership with ZSL

Red/brown deer with large horns in a grassy park, with two smaller deer and green trees behind, and grey tower blocks in the distance

Recovering nature in our cities:...

Catch up on the recording of this Science and Conservation Event

New Zealand Robin

Immigrants to the rescue! How...

Learn how 'genetic rescue' can save threatened species

Red panda_UCL lunctime lectures on tour

Is Man Just Another Animal? and...

Part of UCL Lunch Hour Lectures on Tour, in partnership with ZSL

Palm oil plantation boundary, © Oliver Wearn, ZSL

Natural capital: what's in it...

Science and Conservation Event

Stork_UCL Lectures on tour

Wasps: the Neglected Darlings of...

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Pitcairn © Andrew Christian

Big-ocean commitments in the UK...

What is the UK's marine conservation role overseas?

Herd of African elephants

Stamford Raffles Lecture 2017

How animals shape habitats, ecosystems and the global biosphere, by...

Gernot Behavioural Enrichment Committee

Giving animals choice: how ZSL's...

Hear how Zoo Keepers use behavioural science to enrich the environments of...

Remote sensing and biodiversity monitoring

Space - the final frontier for...

1-day symposium on satellite remote sensing of biodiversity

Cheetah space for nature

Safeguarding space for nature...

An international science-policy symposium to support negotiations on the...

Living Planet Report event

The Living Planet Report 2018:...

Discussion on the very latest findings about trends in changing global...

Comma: copyright Butterfly Conservation_Neil Hulme

Stamford Raffles Lecture 2016

ZSL's annual premier scientific lecture, by Professor Jane Hill.

Giraffe and trees

Linking behaviour to populations...

Symposium to assess the role of behavioural ecology in supporting future...

Osprey catching fish

Rewilding in a changing climate

Debate rewilding, a novel ecosystem management approach to conserving...

Beach plastic pollution

Marine plastic pollution: the...

Explore research by ZSL's #OneLess campaign about how to reduce single-use...

Common dolphin, credit Ali Chedgy/Dyfi National Nature Reserve

CSI of the Sea

Join ZSL for a very special event as we take you behind the scenes to see a...

Bairds tapir Nai conservation

Ten years on the EDGE of Existence

Talks to mark the 10-year anniversary of ZSL's pioneering EDGE of Existence...

Monitoring whales, credit Joanna Kershaw, University of St Andrews

How electronic animal tracking...

Discuss how data from telemetry technologies could improve conservation...

Sperm whale stranded in Pegwell Bay

Investigating strandings around...

For 25 years, the UK Cetaceans Strandings Investigation Programme has been...

Tuatara lizard

Reintroductions for saving...

Discussion on using reintroductions of species for conservation

Making Brexit work for ecology and conservation science

Making Brexit work for ecology...

This event highlighted the key role UK science plays in helping our society...

Heron Island coral reef

Can we still save coral reefs...

Is there a viable future for coral reefs and can they be saved?

Indigenous knowledge for conservation, credit Sam Turvey

Indigenous knowledge and...

Hear about the rich body of conservation knowledge that exists in indigenous...

White rhino landscape in Tsavo, Kenya

The Living Planet Report 2016:...

Symposium on reducing threats that have resulted in a 58% decline in global...

Brown-eared-pheasant, Shanxi Province

Collaborating for conservation...

A first overview of conservation projects being conducted to protect its...

Agalychnis lemur, credit Gonçalo M. Rosa, ZSL

Mitigating single pathogen and...

Two-day symposium on amphibian infectious diseases

Cormorant in a city

Can I protect the planet? How...

A debate on the motion 'Global biodiversity decline is not impacted by my...

Bee and pollen_microbes

Ecosystems under the microscope:...

Talks on how microbial communities contribute to healthy ecosystems

Fishing in the Arctic

Fishing in the Arctic - is there...

Come along to our free scientific debate.

Common Dolphin_Porthbeor beach_credit Joana Doyle

Cetacean by-catch: casting the...

Discussion of by-catch as a cause of cetacean strandings and how to reduce...

© Terry Whittaker

Marine habitat restoration in...

Highlighting the need for active restoration.

Grey catshark lying near a sandy seabed amongst lots of green seagrass in a blue underwater ocean picture

Symposium: Ecological...

Two-day symposium held at ZSL

Image of Chagos brain coral - large round object with a maze like pattern underwater © Rachel Jones

Saving coral reefs one species...

Catch up on the recording of this Science and Conservation Event

Baboon cognition

Street-smart animals:...

Explore the potential of cognitive mechanisms, such as associative learning...

Carl Jones

Stamford Raffles Lecture 2019

This year ZSL's foremost annual lecture features Professor Carl G. Jones MBE...

Small-scale fisheries, credit Rebecca Short

Shifting tides: how can small...

Discuss how the fisheries sector can meet human needs into the future while...

John Clare Cottage peacock butterfly © Froglife

Symposium: Healthy gardens for...

One day event between ZSL's Garden Wildlife Health project and the Wildlife...

© Seth Jackson

Can badger vaccination help...

Scientists, farmers and policymakers discuss badger vaccination.

3 species of elephant birds and an ostrich skeleton (far right), from the National collection at the Queen's palace (The “Rova”) in Antananarivo, Madagascar, taken by French palaeontologist Charles Lamberton. This collection was burned in a fire in 1990s.

Madagascar's missing megafauna:...

What can we learn from these extinct ecosystem engineers?

Confiscated sharks caught illegally in the Chagos Archipelago, inside the BIOT marine protected area. © Tom Letessier

Can surveillance technology and...

How does conservation deal with crime?

© Catherine Head

Coral reefs: running the...

Learn about new technologies used to conserve coral reefs.

ZSL KELOLA Sendang Project

Holistic approaches to conservation

Hear examples of ZSL's projects across the world.

Rewilding our cities could...

A landmark report by ZSL shows how increased urban...

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Symposium: Ecological...

Two-day symposium held at ZSL

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Recovering nature in our cities:...

Catch up on the recording of this Science and...

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UK Cetacean Strandings...

For centuries, cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises...

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Science for Conservation

Read about our five key research areas and how the science...

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Amphibian chytridiomycosis

ZSL is at the forefront of research on amphibian...

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Journal of Zoology

Journal of Zoology publishes new research on all aspects...

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Garden Wildlife Health

Garden Wildlife Health helps to identify and investigate...

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Wild science blogs

From the field, to the lab, catch up with the scientists on...

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Scientific events

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