Our innovative and cutting edge research develops the science that underpins conservation and tackles the more applied questions of how biodiversity can survive in this ever more crowded world. This work focuses on a range of issues covering biodiversity and human well-being, deforestation, defaunation and restoration, designing conservation area and ecological networks, human-wildlife coexistence, landscapes and livelihoods, species monitoring and conservation, valuing nature and ecosystem services, and wildlife trade and sustainable use.
DICE is committed to high-quality, practical, applied conservation research. In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF), we ranked 1st in the UK for our publications in the Geography & Environmental Studies panel and came 14th overall.
Over the past 35 years, DICE has been awarded a total of £30 million for conservation research, including grants from UK Research and Innovation, the European Research Council, and the Leverhulme Trust. Most recently, we received £8.3 million from Research England’s Expanding Excellence in England fund to design and implement conservation solutions in multifunctional land and seascapes. This new project, E3 Sharing Space for Nature, informs habitat recovery locally and across the globe.
DICE members are also part of several research groups. Read more about each below.
Continue your research with the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology. We offer a Master's by research programme and a PhD in Biodiversity Management. Read more about the programes and our scholarships on offer by clicking the link below.
