Inspire4Nature at European Researchers’ Night

Carlo introducing discussion

Inspire4Nature fellows and supervisors participated in a set of three panel discussions open to the public as part of 2019 European Researchers’ Night. Under the theme Talking conservation: how to design a better future for the world’s biodiversity, and followed by a Biodiversity Happy Hour, this event was organised by the Global Mammal Assessment lab at Sapienza Università di Roma.

Carlo Rondinini first introduced the overall theme on Talking conservation: how to design a better future for the world’s biodiversity.

Three discussion themes were then introduced before the participants split into groups. Each panel discussion had three senior Inspire4Nature supervisors as panelists and two Inspire4Nature fellows as moderators.

Ana Rodrigues introducing the first panel.

Panel 1 Protected areas
Panel: Ana Rodrigues, Tom Brooks, Paul Donald
Moderators: Konstantina Spiliopoulou, Maria Lumbierres

Mike Hoffmann, introducing the second panel.

Panel 2 Extinction risk
Panel: Mike Hoffmann, Maria Stoumboudi, Moreno Di Marco
Moderators: Martin Beal, Matt Ford

Michela Pacifici introducing the third panel.

Panel 3 Climate change
Panel: Michela Pacifici, Carlo Rondinini, Jorg Freyhoff, Ole Mertz
Moderators: Carmen Soria, João L. Guilherme

This event took place on the 28 September 2019, at the Zoology building of Sapienza Università di Roma.

[Public panel discussion] Rondinini, C., Beal, M., Brooks, T., Di Marco, M., Donald, P., Ford, M., Freyhoff, J., Guilherme J.L., Hoffmann, M., Lumbierres, M., Mertz, O., Pacifici, M., Rodrigues, A., Soria, C., Spiliopoulou, K., Stoumboudi, M. (2019) Talking conservation: how to design a better future for the world’s biodiversity. Global Mammal Assessment Lab at Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.