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Conservation
National ratings
Research Assessment Exercise 2008: 55% of our research rated "world-leading" or "internationally excellent".
Taught programmes
Research programmes
The Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) is Britain's leading research and postgraduate training centre dedicated to conserving biodiversity and the ecological processes that support ecosystems and people.
DICE's mission is to integrate international conservation and development sustainably. This is achieved by combining natural and social sciences to design measures that help conserve biological diversity. All of our staff have outstanding international research profiles, yet integrate this with considerable on-the-ground experience working with conservation agencies around the world. This combination of expertise ensures that our programmes deliver the skills and knowledge that are essential components of conservation implementation.
Our taught programmes cover topics in conservation biology, biodiversity management, biodiversity law, sustainable tourism and sustainable resource use. Our research degree programme in Biodiversity Management encourages students to undertake original research to submit as a thesis on important topics relating to conserving and managing biodiversity.
Worldwide research
Recent or current projects cover topics such as:
- Ecology of flagship Amazonian species – red Uakari monkeys and giant river otters
- Monitoring population trends in tigers and their prey in Kirinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra
- Chameleon trade and conservation in Madagascar
- Global biodiversity hotspots and extinction risk
- Conservation genetics of the critically endangered Seychelles paradise flycatcher
- Traditional knowledge, intellectual property rights and protected area management
- Collaborative wildlife management and changing social contexts in Amazonian Peru
- The economic value of mammals in Britain
- Estimating extinction dates of plants, birds and mammals
- Sustainable development and environmental change in Mediterranean landscapes
- Responses of animals and plants to climate change.
The DICE postgraduate student body is very international: since 1991, there have been over 500 MSc taught programme graduates from 75 countries, most of whom now follow careers in full-time conservation. The Biodiversity Management research degree has produced over 80 graduates from 27 different countries. Several graduates have gone on to win prestigious international prizes for their achievements within the conservation arena.
Dynamic Publishing Culture
DICE research has been published in books and high-impact international journals, including Nature, Science, Conservation Biology, Biodiversity and Conservation, Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B, Ecological Economics, Human Ecology and Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy.
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