University of Oxford, UK | 12-13 March 2013
March 12th & 13th 2013
Biodiversity Institute, Department of Zoology,
University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS
This conference looks at the major issues in conservation, in animal welfare, and
more pressingly, the sometimes conflicting links between them - celebrating Rachel
Carson’s Silent Spring and Ruth Harrison’s Animal Machines, two books which have
had an immense and lasting influence on these topics.
www.biodiversity.ox.ac.uk/RCRHConference
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Conference Programme
Day 1: Tuesday 12th March
10:30 – 11:00
Registration opens: coffee & tea available
Session 1: 50 Years On
11:00 – 11:15
Marian Dawkins
University of Oxford
Warnings Still Timely
11:15 – 11:30
Kathy Willis
University of Oxford
Earth’s Green Mantle
11:30 – 12:10
Conor Mark Jameson
RSPB
Silent Spring Revisited: Our debt to Rachel
Carson
12:10 – 12:50
John Webster
University of Bristol
The Book of Ruth
12:50 – 13:40
Lunch
Session 2: Bringing About Change
13:40 – 14:20
Irus Braverman
The State University of New York
Managing Nature: Connecting in situ and ex
situ conservation
14:20 – 15:00
Kurt Vogel
University of Wisconsin, River
falls
Mechanisms of practical change in animal
welfare
15:00 – 15:40
Claudio Sillero
WildCRU, University of Oxford
Seeking a greater synergy between animal
welfare & conservation
15:40 – 16:10
Coffee Break
16:10 – 16:50
Andrew Balmford
University of Cambridge
The Glass Half Full: Prospects for nature 50
years on
16:50 – 17:30
Amanda Vincent
University of British Columbia
The Sea Around Us: 50 years of marine
conservation
Day 1: Continued
17:30
Drinks Reception &
Book Launch: for reprint of Animal Machines
Day 2: Wednesday 13th March
08:45
Registration opens: coffee & tea available
Session 3: Current Challenges
09:00 – 09:40
Dan Weary
University of British Columbia
Animal welfare on larger farms: issues and
opportunities
09:40 – 10:20
John Jensen
Department of Bioscience,
Aarhus University
Environmental impact of veterinary
medicines. How do we balance animal
welfare and environmental protection?
10:20 – 11:00
Gavin Neath
Unilever
Sustainability: A Business Perspective
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
Session 4: Looking Towards the Future
11:30 – 12:10
Sten Stymne
Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences
How gene technology can help to reduce the
environmental imprint of agriculture
12:10 – 12:50
Mike Gooding
FAI Farms, Ltd
Building ethics, environment and economics
into business
12:50 – 13:20
13:20 – 13:50
14:00
Panel discussion
Fables for today and tomorrow
Aubrey Manning
University of Edinburgh
End of Conference
Where are we now and where nest?
Prof Marian Dawkins
Prof Kathy Willis
Professor of Animal Behaviour
Department of Zoology, University of
Oxford
Director of the Biodiversity Institute in
the Department of Zoology, University
of Oxford
Email: marian.dawkins@zoo.ox.ac.uk
Email: kathy.willis@zoo.ox.ac.uk
Conor Mark Jameson
Prof Dan Weary
Professional conservationist and
author. His two books, are Silent
Spring Revisited (Spring 2012) &
Looking for the Goshawk, (April 2013)
Email: conor.jameson@rspb.org.uk
Professor and NSERC Research Chair
at the University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, Canada
Prof John Webster
Dr John Jensen
Professor Emeritus at the University of
Bristol where he established the unit
for the study of animal behaviour and
welfare
Email: john.webster@bristol.ac.uk
Department of Bioscience,
Aarhus University,
Denmark
Prof Margaret Shannon
Gavin Neath
Professor in Honour at the University
of Freiburg, Germany, Faculty of
Forest and Environmental Science
Email: m.shannon@ife.uni-freiburg.de
Recent roles have included: Managing
Director Lever Ponds, South Africa;
Chairman Unilever UK and Senior Vice
President Sustainability
Email: Gavin.Neath@unilever.com
Dr Kurt Vogel
Dr Irus Braverman
Assistant Professor of Livestock
Welfare and Behaviour at the
University of Wisconsin – River Falls
Email: kurt.vogel@uwrf.edu
Associate Professor of Law & Adjunct
Professor of Geography, State
University of New York, Buffalo Law
School
Email: irusb@buffalo.edu
Prof Claudio Sillero
Prof Sten Stymne
Bill Travers Fellow for Wildlife
Conservation in the Wildlife
Conservation Research Unit
(WildCRU), University of Oxford
Email: claudio.sillero@zoo.ox.ac.uk
Professor in Plant Breeding and
Biochemistry at the Department of
Crop Science, Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Email: Sten.Stymne@slu.se
Prof Andrew Balmford
Mike Gooding
Professor of Conservation Science at
the Department of Zoology, University
of Cambridge
Mike Gooding is Managing Director of
FAI Farms Ltd and its sister business,
Woodland.
Email: apb12@cam.ac.uk
Email: mike.gooding@faifarms.co.uk
Prof Amanda Vincent
Prof Aubrey Manning
Canada Research Chair in Marine
Conservation, Fisheries Centre at the
University of British Columbia, Canada
Emeritus Professor of Natural History
at the University of Edinburgh
Email: acjvincent@gmail.com
Email: A.Manning@ed.ac.uk
Email: dan.weary@ubc.ca
Email: jje@dmu.dk