Conservation Optimism Summit 2024

After hugely successful Summits in 2017 and 2019, the third Conservation Optimism Summit will be held at Keble College, Oxford, on 16-19 September 2024.

The Summit is not an academic conference; it is a gathering of people engaged with conservation and the global conservation community, in the broadest sense.

It is focussed on Enabling, Empowering and Embracing people involved in meeting the great conservation challenges of our time, through sharing hope, passing on new skills, building community, and fostering wellbeing.

The participants will be a wide range of people engaged in conservation, from the worlds of academia, art, business, health, and hopefully many others. We encourage the inclusion of new and diverse voices for conservation.

We particularly welcome new and innovative ways to communicate conservation hope and success, community and inspiration. We encourage submissions that incorporate art, music, film and new approaches.

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And there's still some space in the programme - if you have an idea for a presentation / workshop / activity - fill in the form here 🙏

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