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Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival

Join us for the family-friendly Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival at the National Museum of Scotland and learn about the importance of biodiversity conservation for all of us!

Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival

About Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival

The Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival is a family-friendly event, founded by Edinburgh Conservation Science (ECoS), a consortium of Scotland-based organisations promoting the inclusion of science into biodiversity conservation management and policy.

This year showcases where the future of conservation could be if we embrace creativity, positivity, and innovation. Come and discover the many projects and people who are helping preserve global biodiversity, followed by a prize-giving ceremony for the winning films.

The inaugural festival was held in the spring of 2022 and was a resounding success, so much so that we have run the festival each year since! The festival is 90-minute programme of a selection of short films made with the intention of inspiring and engaging a broad audience with stories of positive biodiversity conservation success.

The festival aims to show people the importance of biodiversity conservation for all of us, and to give agency to individuals to make positive impacts on global biodiversity. Each film we screen must convey a positive message of what we can achieve for the benefit of biodiversity conservation and our shared society, highlighting humanity’s links with the natural world.

Suitable for Ages 9+

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