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CBM provides new perspectives on the importance of biodiversity for people and communities.

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News from CBM

01 July 2019 Animal welfare course In the peak of Swedish mid-summer light, SLU Ultuna was visited by a group of international researchers in animal welfare, travelling from near and far to learn and discuss important matters in a new way. While small in credits and length, there was something new and unique happening – nowhere else in the world is there anything like this PhD-course on the relationship between animal welfare and the UN sustainable development goals.
24 June 2019 Core principles for successfully implementing and upscaling Nature-based Solutions IUCN’s Nature-based Solutions (NbS) framework is proposed as an approach to biodiversity conservation that links conservation with human wellbeing for sustainable development. NbS is an umbrella concept intended to provide a common set of principles and standards for a range of ecosystem management practices including restoration, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction.
31 May 2019 One Health research on biodiversity conservation and emerging infectious diseases presented at Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Stockholm On May 28, Associate Professor Åsa Fahlman and Dr Udeshika Sewwandi were invited speakers at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm, Sweden, on a seminar arranged by the Swedish Research Council.

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CBM seminar series 2018 - Ethics, species & the sixth mass extinction

25 April at 10-12 am. Helena Siipi (Turku University): "Ethical aspects of assisted migration of endagered species". Open seminar at SLU Ultuna. Read more about our seminar series at www.slu.se/cbmseminars. Welcome!

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Policy Briefs: the relevance of the research

Read about how our research can be of use for our society and for biodiversity. New publication: "Core principles for successfully implementing and upscaling Nature-based Solutions" on a framework that is proposed as an approach to biodiversity conservation that links conservation with human wellbeing for sustainable development.

Published: 18 March 2019 - Page editor: cbm-webmaster@slu.se

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