1. University of Oxford, UK | 12-13 March 2013 This conference looks at the major issues in conservation, in animal welfare, and more pressingly, the sometimes conflicting links between them - celebrating Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and Ruth Harrison’s Animal Machines, two books which have had an immense and lasting influence on these topics. www.biodiversity.ox.ac.uk/RCRHConference @bioinstituteox | #RCRHConference March 12th & 13th 2013 Biodiversity Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS

2. Session 2: Bringing About Change 13:40 – 14:20 Irus Braverman The State University of New York Managing Nature: Connecting in situ and ex situ conservation 14:20 – 15:00 Kurt Vogel University of Wisconsin, River falls Mechanisms of practical change in animal welfare 15:00 – 15:40 Claudio Sillero WildCRU, University of Oxford Seeking a greater synergy between animal welfare & conservation 15:40 – 16:10 Coffee Break 16:10 – 16:50 Andrew Balmford University of Cambridge The Glass Half Full: Prospects for nature 50 years on 16:50 – 17:30 Amanda Vincent University of British Columbia The Sea Around Us: 50 years of marine conservation Conference Programme Day 1: Tuesday 12 th March 10:30 – 11:00 Registration opens: coffee & tea available Session 1: 50 Years On 11:00 – 11:15 Marian Dawkins University of Oxford Warnings Still Timely 11:15 – 11:30 Kathy Willis University of Oxford Earth’s Green Mantle 11:30 – 12:10 Conor Mark Jameson RSPB Silent Spring Revisited: Our debt to Rachel Carson 12:10 – 12:50 John Webster University of Bristol The Book of Ruth 12:50 – 13:40 Lunch

3. Day 1: Continued 17:30 Drinks Reception & Book Launch: for reprint of Animal Machines Day 2: Wednesday 13 th March 08:45 Registration opens: coffee & tea available Session 3: Current Challenges 09:00 – 09:40 Dan Weary University of British Columbia Animal welfare on larger farms: issues and opportunities 09:40 – 10:20 John Jensen Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University Environmental impact of veterinary medicines. How do we balance animal welfare and environmental protection? 10:20 – 11:00 Gavin Neath Unilever Sustainability: A Business Perspective 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break Session 4: Looking Towards the Future 11:30 – 12:10 Sten Stymne Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences How gene technology can help to reduce the environmental imprint of agriculture 12:10 – 12:50 Mike Gooding FAI Farms, Ltd Building ethics, environment and economics into business 12:50 – 13:20 Panel discussion Fables for today and tomorrow 13:20 – 13:50 Aubrey Manning University of Edinburgh Where are we now and where nest? 14:00 End of Conference

4. Prof Marian Dawkins Professor of Animal Behaviour Department of Zoology, University of Oxford Email: marian.dawkins@zoo.ox.ac.uk Prof Kathy Willis Director of the Biodiversity Institute in the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford Email: kathy.willis@zoo.ox.ac.uk Conor Mark Jameson Professional conservationist and author. His two books, are Silent Spring Revisited (Spring 2012) & Looking for the Goshawk, (April 2013) Email: conor.jameson@rspb.org.uk Prof Dan Weary Professor and NSERC Research Chair at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Email: dan.weary@ubc.ca Prof John Webster Professor Emeritus at the University of Bristol where he established the unit for the study of animal behaviour and welfare Email: john.webster@bristol.ac.uk Dr John Jensen Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Denmark Email: jje@dmu.dk Prof Margaret Shannon Professor in Honour at the University of Freiburg, Germany, Faculty of Forest and Environmental Science Email: m.shannon@ife.uni-freiburg.de Gavin Neath Recent roles have included: Managing Director Lever Ponds, South Africa; Chairman Unilever UK and Senior Vice President Sustainability Email: Gavin.Neath@unilever.com Dr Kurt Vogel Assistant Professor of Livestock Welfare and Behaviour at the University of Wisconsin – River Falls Email: kurt.vogel@uwrf.edu Dr Irus Braverman Associate Professor of Law & Adjunct Professor of Geography, State University of New York, Buffalo Law School Email: irusb@buffalo.edu Prof Claudio Sillero Bill Travers Fellow for Wildlife Conservation in the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), University of Oxford Email: claudio.sillero@zoo.ox.ac.uk Prof Sten Stymne Professor in Plant Breeding and Biochemistry at the Department of Crop Science, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden Email: Sten.Stymne@slu.se Prof Andrew Balmford Professor of Conservation Science at the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge Email: apb12@cam.ac.uk Mike Gooding Mike Gooding is Managing Director of FAI Farms Ltd and its sister business, Woodland. Email: mike.gooding@faifarms.co.uk Prof Amanda Vincent Canada Research Chair in Marine Conservation, Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia, Canada Email: acjvincent@gmail.com Prof Aubrey Manning Emeritus Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh Email: A.Manning@ed.ac.uk