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Celebrating the achievements of our alumni on International Women’s DayThe University of Cambridge Masters in Conservation Leadership alumni network (UCCLAN) comprises 220 individuals from 89 countries. The Masters programme equips its graduates with the tools needed to be the next generation of conservation leaders, and 60% of its incredible alumn…

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 established with thanks to the …

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 has been made in recognitio…

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 Convention on Biological …

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 projects undertaken by al…

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Responding to the recently released draft plan to save nature by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, over 100 alumni from over 60 countries ask their collective nations to act decisively to tackle the root causes of accelerating species extinctions.Governments must explicitly acknowledge the biodiversity crisis and climate emerge…

The Goddess Durga astride a tiger. A temple in a village in Rajasthan (western India) where mice are worshipped. Ganesh Chaturthi , a festival to celebrate , Lord Ganesha, the Deity of Good Fortune.No culture in the world is as connected to nature, as India. India has some of the strongest wildlife conservation laws globally and its rich cultural t…

What were you doing before joining the CL Team?I have spent the last 6 years running a MSc programme in Wildlife Conservation at the University of Chester, where I was a senior lecturer and my teaching included ecological field research techniques and landscape-scale wildlife management approaches. My PhD students work on a range diverse questions …

Vena Kapoor (cohort 2010-11) recently authored a children's book. Off to see spiders! is a book to introduce a few common spiders in India to young children who are just starting to read by themselves. This book was commissioned and published by Pratham Books - a leading publisher in India for children's books, and as part of their effort to popula…