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Announcement of the SCLA Fund projects 2022-23

17 January 2023

From working with donors to enhance conservation impact; to using local ecological knowledge in Sudan to maximise conservation values; and using art for conservation in education in Kenya, three Sansom Conservation Leadership Alumni (SCLA) Fund projects have been announced for the 2022-23 round. The SCLA Fund has been...

COP15: UN and Cambridge sign agreement to bolster conservation

12 December 2022

The UN Convention on Biological Diversity secretariat and the University of Cambridge signed a Memorandum of Understanding on day two of COP15, which recognises that the CCI Masters in Conservation Leadership course hosted by the Department of Geography plays a crucial role in conservation capacity building. The agreement...

Alumni stories #01: Rosalind Helfand

31 March 2022

Rosalind Helfand, from the 2018-19 cohort, is based in Los Angeles, California. Since graduating Rosalind founded PAJE Consulting for environmental and social policy issues, where she is working with non-profits and government at the local, state, and global levels on projects like engaging the state of California with the...

Announcement of the SCLA Fund projects 2021-22

21 February 2022

From the first Conservation ActionLAB, to a global green recovery collaborative, to education in the Pantanal, the first three Sansom Conservation Leadership Alumni (SCLA) Fund projects have been announced. The SCLA Fund has been established with thanks to the generosity of Robert Sansom to support high impact conservation...

Global action

19 January 2022

Rob Sassor (cohort 2010-11) is featured in this article in CAM magazine, showcasing what Cambridge alumni are doing to lead the fight against climate change. Find out more about Rob's work here

The conservationist who started a Twitter trend and saved Nairobi’s wildlife

27 April 2021

Current student, Nyandire Reinhard is interviewed as part of the ' This Cambridge Life ' series on how he used Twitter to save wildlife in Nairobi, Read the article here

Saving cancer-treating yew trees in Nepal

27 January 2021

Recent graduate of the Masters' Kumar Paudel (2019-20), and his team at Greenhood Nepal are leading efforts to save cancer treating yew trees in Nepal. Kumar is also a Conservation Leadership Programme alum, and they have written a blog post about his work, which can be found here

The conservationist, the herders and the fashionistas

27 January 2021

Recent graduate Onon Bayasgalan (2019-20), is featured in 'This Cambridge Life', a series in the University's Research Horizons magazine. Onon helps herders in her home country, Mongolia, to preserve livelihoods and lands that are under threat from the luxury fashion industry. See the full article here

Conservation leadership in the time of covid-19

14 October 2020

A refection on conservation leadership in the time of covid-19 by Dr Chris Sandbrook and Dr Howard Nelson

Supporting the pack: conservation action through collective crisis leadership

30 July 2020

The Masters in Conservation Leadership Alumni Network (UCCLAN) have collectively written the Editorial in July’s edition of Oryx. Find out more about this in their associated blog post on collective collective leadership .