Restoring riparian areas in oil palm plantations, and an introduction to the RERTA Project 

A blog post by BEFTA Programme and Insect Ecology Group postdoc Sarah Luke. Also posted at https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/insect-ecology/news Riparian zones are areas of land next to water bodies, including the banks of rivers, and streams, and the sides of lakes and ponds. They are a highly important habitat as they act as an…

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September 2017 – A trip to visit another oil palm-based research project in Sumatra, Indonesia

A blog post by BEFTA Programme and Insect Ecology Group PhD student Millie Hood. Also posted at https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/insect-ecology/news An Effortless Trip to EFForTs It was with much excitement that BEFTA Programme members William Foster, Ed Turner, Amy Eycott, Sarah Luke, Millie Hood (University of Cambridge) and Eleanor Slade (University of Oxford), set off…

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