Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival 2026
Saturday 11th APRIL
National Museum of Scotland
Tickets available soon!
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LAST YEAR’s Trailer
Watch this 1 minute trailer of last year’s films to whet your appetite. A 2026 trailer will be coming soon!
About our 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.
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.
The Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival is brought to you by our partner organisation ECoS.
Edinburgh Conservation Science (ECOS) is a consortium of world-class research organisations dedicated to the translation and application of science to conservation.
We provide an interface between the scientific and conservation communities, maximising the impact of fundamental research and supporting access for wildlife and environmental managers to a range of scientific and medical technologies and expertise.
We welcome interaction with providers and end-users of conservation science. Please feel free to contact us if you have ideas or enquiries about the application of science to conservation practice or policy, or if you have training needs in this area.
