11 January 2023
\n \n \n \nTimothy Kuiper (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Cape Town) and EJ Milner-Gulland (Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity, Department of Biology) explore what varying poaching rates can tell us about what drives, motivates and facilitates poaching.
\n \n\n \n \n20 December 2022
\n \n \n \nSenior Research Fellow Dr Alexandra Zimmermann from the Department of Biology writes about the complexities of \r\nresolving human-wildlife conflict and achieving coexistence.
\n \n\n \n \n16 December 2022
\n \n \n \nA study from Save the Elephants and University of Oxford researchers used high-resolution satellite imagery to investigate how plant diversity affects elephant movements.
\n \n\n \n \n12 December 2022
\n \n \n \nResearchers and conservation experts reinforce the need for ambitious targets by 2030 to focus, motivate and finance actions to start reversing biodiversity loss.
\n \n\n \n \n12 December 2022
\n \n \n \nUniversity of Oxford researchers have contributed to a study which found that very few deep reefs have any form of protection, despite facing a multitude of threats.
\n \n\n \n \n12 December 2022
\n \n \n \nHollie Booth, Oxford Policy Engagement Network Post-doc Fellow in the Department of Biology, writes about her research into ways to reduce catches of threatened shark species that also support the rights and welfare of small-scale fishers.
\n \n\n \n \n8 December 2022
\n \n \n \nAnnounced today at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15), this push is part of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, a movement to avert climate catastrophe and mass extinction.
\n \n\n \n \n7 December 2022
\n \n \n \nLaunching today, the United Nations Conference of the Parties for Biodiversity (COP15) will convene governments from nearly 200 countries to agree to a new set of goals to tackle the biodiversity crisis over the next decade.
\n \n\n \n \n6 December 2022
\n \n \n \nA new study led by the University of Oxford is the first to quantify the day-to-day barriers that conservation workers face as they try to conserve and manage island ecosystems around the world.
\n \n\n \n \n5 December 2022
\n \n \n \nAhead of COP15, researchers make key recommendations for policymakers to support Asian countries to meet 2030 biodiversity targets.
\n \n\n \n \n28 November 2022
\n \n \n \nAs nations prepare to meet in Uruguay to negotiate a new Global Plastics Treaty, a study from Oxford and Nekton scientists has revealed the discovery of synthetic plastic fibres in air, seawater, sediment and sea ice.
\n \n\n \n \n28 November 2022
\n \n \n \nA partnership between the Oxford Robotics Institute and Department of Biology is using cutting-edge robots to assess the state of species diversity and ecosystems in the UK.
\n \n\n \n \n25 November 2022
\n \n \n \nAs part of World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, the Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Research and Oxford Martin School hosted a symposium on 'The Rising Tide of Antimicrobial Resistance: A high price to pay', bringing together experts from research, industry, policy and finance to discuss the threat and opportunities to address it.
\n \n\n \n \n22 November 2022
\n \n \n \nA new study, led by researchers from the Department of Biology and released during World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, has significant findings on how antimicrobial resistance (AMR) arises and persists.
\n \n\n \n \n18 November 2022
\n \n \n \nMPLS Associate Head (Education) and Professor of Mathematical Biology, Mike Bonsall, is the latest member of the University to be featured on Oxford Profiles, talking about why he believes Biology is the 'subject of the future'.
\n \n\n \n \n1 November 2022
\n \n \n \nThe Rockefeller Foundation has announced $3 million in new funding for Global.health (G.h) \u2013 a first-of-its-kind, open-source platform for scientific pandemic data.
\n \n\n \n \n24 October 2022
\n \n \n \nThe Nekton Maldives Mission, involving Oxford marine biologists, has found evidence of a previously undescribed ecosystem - \u2018The Trapping Zone\u2019 - that is creating an oasis of life 500 metres down in the depths of the Indian Ocean. The discovery has been hailed as highly significant by the Maldives Government.
\n \n\n \n \n24 October 2022
\n \n \n \nNew research led by biologists from the University of Oxford, working with partners at Yellowstone National Park and Penn State in the US, may have finally solved why wolves change colour across the North American continent.
\n \n\n \n \n18 October 2022
\n \n \n \nAn article first published on the Conversation by Amy Dickman, Professor of Wildlife Conservation in the Department of Biology, and colleagues Niall Hammond from Griffith University and Duan Biggs at Northern Arizona University.
\n \n\n \n \n13 October 2022
\n \n \n \nProfessor \u00d8stergaard joins the Department of Biology in November 2022 from the John Innes Centre, Norwich where he studied comparative reproductive tissue development using both crops and non-cultivated plant species as model systems.
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