Established in 2007 at the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK, the CBCD’s mission is to undertake research, education and community outreach on the links between cultural and biological diversity and on how human society has shaped and is shaped by the landscape and biosphere.

The Centre draws on staff and students from Kent's School of Anthropology and Conservation (SAC), which includes staff trained in ethnobiology, social and biological anthropology and staff from the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE). Since 2007, SAC is hosting the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Urgent Anthropology Fellowship; most of the fellows have interests in line with the CBCD.

CBCD has collaborative links with a number of institutions for research, education and community outreach purposes, including the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, the Eden Project, the Henry Doubleday Research Association and the Global Diversity Foundation.

The Centre is involved in education and training through the MSc in Environmental Anthropology and the MSc in Ethnobotany, which is run jointly with the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. SAC also offers MSc degrees in Conservation Biology, Conservation and Tourism, and International Trade and Wildlife Conservation. CBCD staff are also involved in international training courses in association with University degree programmes, research projects and capacity building of NGOs in Europe and elsewhere.

For more information on the CBCD see the website and please contact Raj Puri: R.K.Puri@kent.ac.uk