Floraguard Webinar- 30 Oct 2020

Led by the University of Southampton, and partnered with UK Border Force and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the FloraGuard Project set out to develop a cross-disciplinary approach to tackling this complex branch of the illegal wildlife trade. On 30th October, please join the FloraGuard team who will be presenting the key findings of their research in talks spanning the fields of Criminology, AI Technology, Law Enforcement and Conservation Science, as published in the FloraGuard Report.

The webinar will feature as speakers: Dr. Anita Lavorgna, Associate Professor in Criminology and Dr. Stuart E. Middleton, Lecturer in Computer Science, at the University of Southampton, Maurizio Sajeva, Professor of Plant Ecology at the University of Palermo, and Guy Clarke, Higher Officer, UK Border Force CITES Team. Dr Carly Cowell, Senior Policy Advisor (UK CITES Scientific Authority for Flora), at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, will serve as moderator and will also join the Q+A Panel at the end of the session.

Please see the registration page for further details, and please feel free to share this invitation more widely. To contact the team, please email CITES@Kew.org 

More info can be found here: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/publicpolicy/support-for-policymakers/policy-projects/Current%20projects/floraguard.page