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Talks and other activities covering all aspects of natural history, including botany, conservation, ecology, entomology, geology, palaeontology, zoology etc. See web page https://www.cnhs.org.uk/ for full details, and additional activities not listed here (we have excursions, field-trips, etc. in summer instead of talks). All talks this Spring (2025) are in-person starting at 6.45pm prompt, free to all, and will be relayed live via Zoom. Talks may be recorded and if so, CNHS members who cannot join the event (or who wish to watch it again) will be sent a link to allow them to view it at their leisure. To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk Your video and audio will be off when you join in order to give maximum bandwidth to the speaker. At the end of the talk chat will be enabled to ask questions, or you can raise your virtual hand. If you have a question about this list, please contact: Jon Shanklin; Simon Mentha; events; president. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser. 1 upcoming talk and 249 talks in the archive. Natural Materials for Musical InstrumentsPlease note the start time, being after the AGM, is approximate.
Annual General Meeting 2025Please note earlier 6.30pm start
The Cambridgeshire Bird Club - 1925 to 2025: a century of bird watching
Great Fen: progress on the peat
Squirrels of the British Isles: Red, Grey, and Black!
Alice Hibbert-Ware: Nature Study and the Little Owl Food Enquiry (1936-7)
Insect Conservation: conserving the little things that run the world
Tropical Butterflies: using museum collections to study changes in biodiversityTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk
Future-proofing the FensTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk
Studying Speciation in the Small Ermine Moths (Yponomeuta)To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk
Plant Collecting in KyrgyzstanTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk
A beep in the dark: 120 years of midwife toads in Great BritainTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk
Global Warming in the ArcticTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk
Finding W H Hudson — the writer who came to Britain to save birdsTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk
Overlooked wildlife, or, Why are there so many species?To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk
Wicken Fen: 125 Years of ConservationTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
NatHistFest: 105th Conversazione - Day 2Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World
NatHistFest: 105th Conversazione - Day 1Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World
Moth Trapping in CambridgeTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
What and Where I RecordTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
Phenology in the Botanic GardenTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
Otters – in CambridgeshireTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
Indonesia, Alfred Wallace and KrakatoaTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
Habitat associations of British butterflies and their foodplants: implications for conservationTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
Pollinator Conservation – and your LawnTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
Biodiversity and Geology in PeruTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
The Health of the CamTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
Fieldwork: A Dendrochronologist's perspective of Science, Life and AdventureTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
A Biodiverse CityTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
The Climate Crisis and Atolls in the South PacificTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
Trees on Farms: investigating the conservation benefits of agroforestryTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
People Power for NatureTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
Swallowtails - keeping them safe at home and abroadTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
NatHistFest: 104th ConversazioneFree Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World
NatHistFest: 104th ConversazioneFree Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World
Cool as a caterpillarTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
Lost Chalk Streams of Newmarket and CambridgeTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
Climate Stories from Yew TreesTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
Churches, Churchyards and CemeteriesTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
MothsNOTE: Room changed, from King's to Geography
Reconstructing Past Abrupt Climate Change in PatagoniaTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
In Search of Wild TulipsTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
500 Years of Exhibiting Biodiversity: from cabinets of curiosity to interpreting today´s extinction crisisTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
CNHS Seasonal Social
Insects in Flight
Launch of the 3rd online Nat Hist FestTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
Operation Turtle DoveTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
The Nature of CambridgeTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
Mosquitoes in the Cambridgeshire Fens: past, present and future
Natural History from AboveTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
22 years of Demonstration and Research for Nature-friendly FarmingTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
The Archives of Cambridge Natural History SocietyTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
What midges can tell us about past environmentsAdmission Free
Truffles in a warming worldPart of the Cambridge Festival - free admission
Fenland FloraTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
How many butterflies are there in the Western Palaearctic?To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
Measuring and Monitoring Surface Melting on an Antarctic Ice ShelfTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
Lower WoodTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
PeatbogsTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
Using Sound to Study the Behaviour of Wild Wolves, Coyotes and JackalsTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
The Fenland FloraTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
Photographing the Wonders of the Insect WorldTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
The Bird Room at the Museum of ZoologyTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
** Audience Choice **The choice will be made by participants' vote at the start of the meeting.
The Convention on Biodiversity and conservation in the CaribbeanTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
The launch of the online NatHistFestTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
A Trillion Trees - A trillion reasons to thrive!To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
Chemical warfare (and co-operation) in the gardenTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
Biodiversity of the Hobson's Brook corridorTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
Restoring habitat for the Iberian lynxTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
Trees for StreetsTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
The future of nature conservation and the Wildlife Trusts’ 30:30:30 visionTo be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk
TO BE ADJOURNED - AGMAGM WILL BE ADJOURNED
CANCELLED - NatHistFest: 101st ConversazioneCANCELLED
CANCELLED - NatHistFest: 101st ConversazioneCANCELLED
CANCELLED - A trillion trees – A trillion reasons to thrive!CANCELLED
CANCELLED - SeasearchCANCELLED
Natura Urbana (film and discussion)Part of the Cambridge Science Festival - free admission
The wonderful world of rocks, minerals and fossils
Alternative plastics, grass and worms
Three mammals: otters, bats and hedgehogs
Lines in nature and the landscape
Harrold-Odell Country Park
The Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve
Floreana: Rebirth of an island in the Galapagos
Chalk streams of Cambridgeshire
CNHS Seasonal SocialTickets £10 to be purchased in advance.
Members' enthusiasms
The short Arctic summer
An astronomer in Antarctica
Tasty Crafty Aliens - Making the best of a bad situation...
The Last Dog? Wolves in the Highlands of Ethiopia and elsewherePart of the Festival of Ideas - free admission
Changes: the Bird Life of Cambridgeshire - for better or for worse?Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission
(Re-)discovering Moths
Cambridge's Natural History - what do we know after three years of NatHistCam?
CNHS bat & moth trapping nightBook by emailing president@cnhs.org.uk with your name and phone number, in case we need to cancel because of bad weather.
NatHistFest: 100th ConversazioneCambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science
NatHistFest: 100th ConversazioneCambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science
Tree rings at the interface of archaeology, biology, climatology and ecology
Exploring the Natural World: an Orchestral ConcertTickets £10 (children free) from tickets@cnhs.org.uk or on door
Farming of the future: Alternative options for agriculture & conservationPart of Cambridge Science Festival - free admission
Creating a wildlife tour with the Arctic SamiPart of Cambridge Science Festival - free admission
Parasitic plants
Hyde Park: a history through trees
Cheetah conservation in Namibia
Venom
FairWild: collecting and trading wild-collected products sustainablyCNHS talk & social - tickets £10
Discovering lichens
Wildlife photography
Getting to know British reptiles
Foula: Edge of the WorldPart of the Festival of Ideas - free admission
The riparian meadows of CambridgePart of the Festival of Ideas - free admission
A trip to the Galapagos islands
Old specimens, new tricks? The Cambridge University Herbarium: what a million dead plants can tell us about the world todayOpening Autumn Lecture
NatHistFest: the 99th Conversazione and exhibition on the wonders of the natural world.
NatHistFest: the 99th Conversazione and exhibition on the wonders of the natural world.
Land of Eagles - Albania: from closed nation to wildlife paradise - where next?Preceded by the AGM, 18:00 to 18:30.
Breckland, birds and conservation
The importance of seed testing
“This object has been temporarily removed”
Smuts, bunts and ergots
Exhibiting Ice Age Cambridge
Romanian meadows, their problems and conservationThis will be followed by drinks and refreshments until 9.30pm – further details will be sent by email but there will be a charge and booking will be required.
Amphibian conservation and midwife toads in Cambridge
Origins of Mediterranean flora
Shepreth Hedgehog Hospital
Plants and their uses (medicinal & otherwise)
Lost forests of Huntingdonshire
Britain's Hidden Marine Life
Annual Conversazione: Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science!
Annual Conversazione: Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science!
Travels of a botanist in search of mosses: Unst to Albania, then Cambridge
Adventures in the Arctic
First Footsteps: the Colonisation of Land
Protecting trees in South Cambridgeshire
Chalk, clunch and life on the edge
The cacti of Peru
A review of 2016: wildlife and more - a personal perspective
The environmental impacts of oil palm: good crop/bad crop?
Trees, hedges and woodland management
A bird's-eye view of the natural world: monitoring forests from aircraft
Surveying marine biodiversity in the Staffa archipelago
NatHistCam
Cambridge University Botanic Garden: past, present and future
Once you get a taste for it...
Slugs and snails
Annual Conversazione: Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science!
Annual Conversazione: Cambridge's oldest celebration of citizen science!
Change in the bryophyte flora of Cambridgeshire over 65 years of intensive recordingPlease note earlier time, 6.30 for 7pm
Pearl mussels: ecology, threats and prospects
Evolution and extinction in Western Australian trilobites
Cambridgeshire butterflies
Camouflage in Aegean lizards
Learn to use a microscopeBooking essential and there will be a small charge. See website for details.
Birdsong - what's all the noise about?
Managing Cherry Hinton Brook: balancing wildlife, recreation and public access
Ants: ecology, behaviour and importance
A Natural History of Cambridge
The pleasures of fungal forays
Agricultural trials and wildlife
Wandlebury: People, Nature and Heritage
Non-Native Species: The good, the bad and the ugly
Title to be confirmed
The history and management of Hayley Wood
Presidential Address on “Garden ecology”, and AGMPlease note earlier start: 6:30 pm for 7:00 pm
44 million of our birds are missing
The flora & lizards of the Canary Islands
Scrub clearance and chalk grassland restoration
African natural products
Communities, conservation, and climate change in the Pacific Islands
Putting the flowers of Fenland on the map
Hunting for dinner in the ice age
In search of the snow leopard in Ladakh, in winter
Trapping Mink for Water Vole recovery in the upper Cam catchment
Tatous and Taiwan Devils: making sense of scaly mammals in the seventeenth century
Fungal ForayAdmission free for CNHS members & Friends of CUBG. Garden entrance fee for others.
Cambridgeshire orchards and their wildlife
The challenges of monitoring and evaluating a wetland restoration project in the UK
Wimpole Estate and its wildlife
Presidential Address and AGMPlease note earlier than usual start time.
The age of the collector: the founding and development of the Woodwardian and Sedgwick Museums
Insect biodiversity in Cambridge – rare species in our urban meadows
The Great Fen – out of the past and into the future
Visit to the University Herbarium, Cambridge University Botanic GardenBooking in advance essential.
Wild flowers and some wildlife of western Cyprus
A brief history of fungi on plants
Five weeks that changed the world: Darwin and the Galapagos
A View from Nine Wells
Native oysters: conserving a commercially fished species
Eyespots and scents on butterfly wings
Chalk streams and their management
Pollution and wildlife – practical problems for nature conservation in England
The House Sparrow survey of Cambridge
Hardwick Wood, past and present
Saving Asia's vultures
Overlooked wildlife
Annual Conversazione
Annual Conversazione
A shag in Madingley and a porpoise at Earith: the 'Fauna Cantabrigiensis' of the Rev Leonard Jenyns (1800-1893)Note: This talk will be held in room LAB107 in the Lord Ashcroft Building, Anglia Ruskin University.
Visit to the University HerbariumNote: CNHS members only, as numbers are restricted.
Cambridge’s newest local nature reserve
Nature's glass: half-full or half-empty?
Cambridgeshire's herpetofauna and its conservation
Travels with research: baboons to earthquakes
Diseases of ash and other trees round the worldNote: This talk will be held in room MEL001 in the Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University.
The National Ecosystem Assessment and its follow-on phase
Giving wildlife an edge on the Middle Level waterways
Dung pats, flies and farmers
Exotic mammals in the Antarctic region
What is a fungal foray?Note this is on FRIDAY 19th October (not Thursday as usual).
Using maps and GPS
Conserving the small things that run the world
Annual Conversazione
Annual Conversazione
Presidential Address, and Annual General MeetingNote earlier time.
East Anglian orchard biodiversity
Evening visit to the Sedgwick Museum of Earth SciencesNote earlier time. Admission by ticket only (see details of event).
The Myxomycetes: A life of slime
Understanding landscapes: the challenge of East Anglia
A living cemetery: the flora & fauna of Mill Road Cemetery
Come and get me! How plants attract their pollinators.
Keeping the skies alive with Swifts
50 years of conservation
Mammals and milk
A botanist on Mull
The star-crossed stone
Mapping the land use of Britain: 80 years of innovation
Cacti in Chile and in cultivation
Managing the River Cam: balancing the needs of river users and the environment
Portholme Meadow, Brampton: history and natural history intertwined
Annual Conversazione
Annual Conversazione
Weather, climate and ozone; an Antarctic perspective
Stromatolites
Exploration and exploitation of the Arctic: hunters and trappers, whalers and sealers
CPERC, who we are, what we do and why it's important for local biodiversity
Studying the behaviour of Alpine Ibex
Madagascan vegetation: an introduction to its richness
The Hayley Wood story up to date
Lake Victoria, the people and their fisheries
Fungi and Woodland History
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Jim Woodhouse, CNHS President; Emeritus Professor of Structural Dynamics.
Thursday 20 March 2025, 18:45-20:00