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Our event of Trinity 2014 looked into an issue that had been at the forefront of news that previous winter; namely flooding and flood control. With increasing urbanisation along the banks of rivers, the threat of flooding and increased damage from these events is a very real problem when it comes to urban (as well … Continue reading Reinventing Noah’s Ark: Is Nature Conservation the Solution to Flooding?

The Nature Conservation Society’s latest event looked at the role of large conservation NGOs, and whether or not they are a force for good within conservation. It was a well-attended event, with a good mix of people to listen to the three fantastic talks and panel discussion. Our first speaker of the evening was Mark … Continue reading Assessing the role of large conservation NGOs

The Oxford Nature Conservation Society chose to focus its latest event on conservation actions and policies in the UK. This was a great opportunity to hear more about the issues we face at home and learn about the approaches conservationists are currently implementing to tackle them effectively. Throughout the evening, the audience was presented with … Continue reading Conservation in the UK: Challenges, Solutions and New Ideas

Our Hilary 2013 event - ‘Conflict and Charisma’ - got off to a positive start with a steady stream of people, from a range of different backgrounds, filing into the somewhat cramped St. Peter’s College room. In addition to our crowd of regular members, there were a number of new faces at this event (many … Continue reading Conflict and Charisma

February 2013 brought us our first exciting joint event with BioSoc: A talk given by Carly Waterman, the EDGE Programme Manager. EDGE stands for Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered, and the project is all about saving the world’s most unusual creatures. We are all familiar with the reasons to focus on threatened or endangered species, … Continue reading All about EDGE: 1st joint event with BioSoc

For the second time, we were very pleased to welcome Paul Jepson to talk at a ConSoc event. Paul explored ideas of how local and cultural practices contribute to conservation in ways that we might not necessarily expect. From his experiences out in Indonesia working on bird conservation, Paul highlighted the central theme of the … Continue reading Cultures of Conservation

How does political conflict influence the protection of vulnerable natural areas? How does social conflict between local groups and conservationists affect the successful implementation of conservation strategies? In this event, we wished to explore the effect of social conflict and turmoil on the conservation effort. The lecture room was filled to capacity as lots of … Continue reading Conservation in Conflict Zones

So finally its time to trawl up some memories of the marine event and highlight once again the importance of doing every little thing we can to help out our long-suffering oceans... Not to be daunted by one of the largest environmental challenges that the human race is currently facing, for our second event, ONCS … Continue reading Marine Conservation

So to start our venture into the sphere of conservation challenges, we held our first discussion event on species reintroductions in November 2011. The excited (and slightly nervous) committee were massively pleased to see a huge turn-out. Luckily, the lack of access to a promised projector had us relocated into a bigger lecture room in … Continue reading Revisiting Reintroductions