Sir David Attenborough and BBC presenter Iolo Williams introduce ‘The Evidence Effect’, a film about a conservation revolution that’s helping to protect biodiversity across our planet.
We face both the ‘sixth mass extinction’ of biodiversity and an ‘evidence emergency’ stopping us from conserving it in the way we need for the future of the planet. But change is afoot.
A new approach led by researchers in Cambridge is based on a free online resource called ‘Conservation Evidence’ – the largest authoritative collection of evidence on what works and why in conservation.
It’s being used by conservationists globally to work out what to do for the best chances of protecting particular species and habitats.
Professor Bill Sutherland, who leads the Cambridge team behind the project, says: “With Conservation Evidence, it takes less than a minute to look up whether something is effective, and just a few more to find an alternative intervention if it’s not.”
In collaboration with an international group of experts, Sutherland's team summarised evidence for the effectiveness of thousands of conservation interventions, which involved scanning over 1.6 million papers. Conservation Evidence has also brought together a group of ‘Evidence Champions’ who have signed commitments to use the resource in their decision-making for new projects.
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Find out about the Cambridge Conservation Initiative: www.cambridgeconservation.org
0:00 - Intro with Iolo Williams and Sir David Attenborough
1:06 - Professor Video Henderson - Defra
1:40 - Professor Bill Sutherland
2:26 - Danni Parks
3:09 - Iroro Tanshi - Bat Conservation
4:03 - Dr Vikash Tataya - Mauritian Wildlife Trust
4:58 - Dr Chris Nicholls - Woodland trust
5:21 - Dr Ally Evans - Eco-structures
6:17 - Iolo Williams
