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2nd Inspire4Nature Supervisory Board Meeting

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The second meeting of Inspire4Nature’s Supervisory Board took place on the 28th September 2019 in Rome, hosted by Sapienza Università di Roma.

The Supervisory Board is the decision-making body governing the Inspire4Nature Consortium, responsible for the overall management and monitoring of the project. It is composed of one member of each participant organisation, as well as two representatives of the fellows as observers. The agenda of this second meeting focused on: overview of progress in the training programme, open access, financial management, discussion of the next training session and upcoming project deliverables.

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Inspire4Nature at European Researchers’ Night

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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.

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Inspire4Nature Ecocups

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For sure a small step for Humanity, but we are very pleased with our Inspire4Nature ecocups. These made-in-France reusable cups are helping us to reduce dramatically our plastic consumption at project meetings while allowing everybody to remain as hydrated/caffeinated as needed. They also work as a little outreach method, as our fellows, senior scientists and collaborators take them back to their institutions.

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3rd Inspire4Nature Training Session

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The 3rd Training Session – “Theory and practice of assessing species extinction risk” – trained fellows on the process of assessing species’ risk of extinction using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria.

The fellows first learned about the key concepts, categories and criteria in a IUCN Red List Assessor Training Workshop. They then applied their new knowledge and stills by participating in the IUCN Red List Assessment of Southern European Freshwater Fishes workshop, supporting experts in freshwater fishes coming from across Europe.

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Trait data quality and availability: a review of mammal trait databases

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Inspire4Nature fellow Carmen Soria presented a poster entitled Trait data quality and availability: a review of mammal trait databases in July 2019 at the International Conference on Conservation Biology, at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She analysed some of the most popular publicly available mammal trait databases following a hierarchical methodology to produce a combined database obtained. This allowed her to identify which mammal orders, trait types and parts of the world are data deficient.

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Improving biodiversity trend assessment methods

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Inspire4Nature fellow Shawn Dove did a five minute talk introducing the topic and focus of his PhD research as part of the Graduate Research Symposium of UCL’s Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment. He spoke about why we need to measure changes in the state of global biodiversity, the weaknesses in current methods, and how his research will improve global and national biodiversity indices. He won a prize for best 1st year presentation.

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