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1. Primate population threat up by 20% in 20 years

   LJMU’s Professor Serge Wich, and other internationally recognised experts, have published a paper calling for urgent action to protect the world’s dwindling primate populations.

2. Megalith tombs were family graves in European Stone Age

   In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, an international research team, led by Uppsala University with co-author Linus Girdland-Flink of LJMU, discovered kin relationships among Stone Age individuals buried in megalithic tombs on Ireland and in Sweden.

3. Thermal ‘fingerprinting’ to help conserve rare animals in Madagascar

   SCIENTIFIC methods developed at Liverpool John Moores University and Chester Zoo to count animals from the air are being adopted in the wilds of Madagascar.

4. NHS frontline workers are first to graduate in Masters

   "Their dedication to becoming Advanced Healthcare Practitioners was astonishing"

5. Report on benefits of outdoors debated in Scottish Parliament

   Dr Kaye Richards' Outjoyment Report for the Camping and Caravanning Club is having a significant impact nationwide

6. Representing the UK in the European University Film Awards

   Liverpool John Moores University was one of 25 European universities to participate in this year's European University Film Award (EUFA).

7. LJMU to develop sustainable mining practice in the Philippines

   LJMU have secured prestigious funding to develop novel approaches to sustainable mining in the Philippines.

8. Global security figures quizzed in The Policing Conversation podcast

   Lecturer James Williams interviews police chiefs, scholars, journalists and researchers

9. Astronomers catch Tatooine multiple star system as it forms

   For the first time astronomers, including Dr Richard Parker, of the Astrophysics Research Institute at LJMU, have caught a multiple-star system as it is created, and their observations are providing new insight into how such systems, and possibly the solar system, are formed. The amazing images taken from a series of telescopes on Earth show clouds of gas which are in the process of developing into stars.

10. Research: Rampant growth in vegetable oil production threatens wildlife

    Professor Serge Wich contributes to IUCN report on vegetable oil