Dear All,

Tickets are fast selling out for the Annual Stamford Raffles Lecture on Tuesday 19th June. Professor Tim Birkhead will be speaking on 'Darwin, Sex and Sexual Selection'. Please click through on the link to the right to find out more about the lecture, and to purchase tickets.

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY: EVOLUTION AND LIFE HISTORY OF PARASITISM -

12th June 2012, 6pm

Hello there,

My name is Nick and I am an underwater cinematographer based in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt.

Shortly after the shark attacks here in December 2010 I decided to try and do something to change the perception of sharks, which were once again under fire from the world's media. So I wrote a song about the ocean and why we love her. If you are not a diver the 'blue' in the song could be talking about a relationship that started well and has now gone bad leaving us with regret.

Dear All,

Just a reminder that registration for our symposium on 'Economics as if life mattered: can we shape economic policy to save species?'  closes tonight at midnight. All registrations made after today will incur a £10 late fee. Please click through on the link to the right to find out more about the symposium.

THE SARGASSO SEA - 12th June 2012, 6pm

In less than two months, world leaders will take part in the Rio+20 Earth Conference where they will have a chance to tackle critical sustainable development issues.  It's countdown time but governments still have time to make strong decisions that will shape a better future ensuring the kind of healthy ocean needed for sustainable development for billions of people. 

The Crisis of Civilization is a documentary feature film investigating how global crises like ecological disaster, financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages are converging symptoms of a single, failed global system.

Weaving together archival film footage and animations, film-maker Dean Puckett, animator Lucca Benney and international security analyst Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed -- author of A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It -- offer a stunning wake-up call proving that 'another world' is not merely possible, but on its way.

Wildlife Sound Recording in Sweden with Chris Watson 10-14 May 2012 - Fully booked
Advanced Wildlife Sound Recording (UK) 18-20 May 2012 - Fully booked
Introduction to Wildlife Film-making (UK) 8-10 June 2012 - Fully booked

The winner of this year's Eco-Comedy Video Competition is Alexander Lucas with his short video Clean Coal by the Bituminous Marketing Agency.   It's clever and funny.  Take a look!  Alex Lucas richly deserves his $1,000 prize from the Sierra Club. It sets a new bar for this competition. Any questions, e-mail Chris Palmer: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .