This is how hard it is to fly again after healing your wounds
Source: Lucia Solis
#birds #globalmuseum #conservation
A striking profile of a bush-loving hunter who's trying to draw attention to the impact of feral cat on the biodiversity of native bush in Aotearoa, and provoke action to address is at scale;
This is the most challenging ethical quandary kiwi vegans face, a classic trolley problem.
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Jess Mahler
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She fed primates and habituated them to human presence, methods that undermine the claim Goodall studied chimpanzee behaviour in the wild. “It was not science and it wouldn’t pass peer review today,” says Mordecai Ogada, a Kenyan conservation scientist and author of The Big #Conservation Lie. . . .
#JaneGoodall was one of the last symbols of “conservation” that was politically, socially, and financially unsustainable, and colonial in its ethos.
- Rishika Pardikar, Jane Goodall obituary for Issue No. 216 of @thecontinent https://www.thecontinent.org/archive #Africa #science
She fed primates and habituated them to human presence, methods that undermine the claim Goodall studied chimpanzee behaviour in the wild. “It was not science and it wouldn’t pass peer review today,” says Mordecai Ogada, a Kenyan conservation scientist and author of The Big #Conservation Lie. . . .
#JaneGoodall was one of the last symbols of “conservation” that was politically, socially, and financially unsustainable, and colonial in its ethos.
- Rishika Pardikar, Jane Goodall obituary for Issue No. 216 of @thecontinent https://www.thecontinent.org/archive #Africa #science
Ben
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#NewSpecies!
New tree toad from #tanzania just came in:
Nectophrynoides uhehe
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4ABBF54E-F9C4-5236-B8C4-C0E2A865A1EE
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.75.e167008
#VertebrateZoology #NectophrynoidesUhehe
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #herpetology #herps #amphibia #frogfriday #frogs #toads
Museomics and integrative taxonomy reveal three new species of glandular viviparous tree toads (Nectophrynoides) in Tanzania’s Eastern Arc Mountains (Anura: Bufonidae)
#NewSpecies!
New tree toad from #tanzania just came in:
Nectophrynoides uhehe
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4ABBF54E-F9C4-5236-B8C4-C0E2A865A1EE
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.75.e167008
#VertebrateZoology #NectophrynoidesUhehe
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #herpetology #herps #amphibia #frogfriday #frogs #toads
Museomics and integrative taxonomy reveal three new species of glandular viviparous tree toads (Nectophrynoides) in Tanzania’s Eastern Arc Mountains (Anura: Bufonidae)
hypebot
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Marine experts at the Indonesian Seagrass Symposium in Bali warned that seagrass ecosystems — vital for carbon storage, biodiversity and coastal protection — remain largely overlooked in national policy and conservation efforts.
Scientists and conservation leaders urged stronger data collection, funding and institutional capacity to support restoration, monitoring and community participation.
by Basten Gokkon
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/seagrass-meadows-marine-conservation-indonesia-blue-carbon/
tools for commensality 🧿
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GLOBALIZING WILDLIFE is now available for pre-order with UNC Press! and what a cover!
My contribution is a chapter about otter conservation, juxtaposing the free movement of consumer goods and fossil fuel with otter containment in coastal California
Pre-orders save 30% with code 01SOCIAL30
https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469694757/globalizing-wildlife/
#AnimalStudies #EnvHist #STS #conservation #bookstodon #shipping #oil #California #histodons
Marine experts at the Indonesian Seagrass Symposium in Bali warned that seagrass ecosystems — vital for carbon storage, biodiversity and coastal protection — remain largely overlooked in national policy and conservation efforts.
Scientists and conservation leaders urged stronger data collection, funding and institutional capacity to support restoration, monitoring and community participation.
by Basten Gokkon
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/seagrass-meadows-marine-conservation-indonesia-blue-carbon/
GLOBALIZING WILDLIFE is now available for pre-order with UNC Press! and what a cover!
My contribution is a chapter about otter conservation, juxtaposing the free movement of consumer goods and fossil fuel with otter containment in coastal California
Pre-orders save 30% with code 01SOCIAL30
https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469694757/globalizing-wildlife/
#AnimalStudies #EnvHist #STS #conservation #bookstodon #shipping #oil #California #histodons
Fascinating, if noxious, discursive turn: appropriation of "DEI" to characterize conservation
"We’re going to change nature?” Kennedy said in a speech before the Senate. “We’re going to control our environment to this extent? We’re going to pass DEI for owls?”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/31/senate-barred-northern-spotted-owls
hypebot
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“Reconciliation ecology,” a term coined in 2003, aims to increase #biodiversity in human-dominated landscapes. Think of it as #conservation for the Anthropocene.
“Reconciliation ecology,” a term coined in 2003, aims to increase #biodiversity in human-dominated landscapes. Think of it as #conservation for the Anthropocene.
impermanen_ 🕊️
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On this day 76 years ago, Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac was published. We still have so much to learn from this beautiful and heartbreaking account of one of the foundational American Naturalists.
I wrote a bit about it a couple of years ago after reading it and having my own heart broken.
We need a Land Ethic for our time, and for all time.
Chewie
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Great News! The High Seas Treaty has been ratified. It is now possible to establish Marine Protected Areas in international waters. #conservation
https://divemagazine.com/scuba-diving-news/high-seas-treaty-officially-ratified
Titus Stahl
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👀 When’s the last time you saw a #mustelid?
The #weasel, #stoat, and #polecat may be silently disappearing from the Dutch landscape, or are they just hiding? 🐾
Biologists from #GELIFES at the UG are finding out how to monitor these small carnivores. 🔎
Curious? Read more 👇
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/highlighted-papers/2025/weaseling-out-the-best-way-to-monitor-small-carnivores
🧪 #SciComm #ScienceNewsroom #mustelids #FSE #research #ecology #conservation #biology #wildlife #biodiversity #ScientistsOnMastodon #conservationbiology @universityofgroningen
👀 When’s the last time you saw a #mustelid?
The #weasel, #stoat, and #polecat may be silently disappearing from the Dutch landscape, or are they just hiding? 🐾
Biologists from #GELIFES at the UG are finding out how to monitor these small carnivores. 🔎
Curious? Read more 👇
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/highlighted-papers/2025/weaseling-out-the-best-way-to-monitor-small-carnivores
🧪 #SciComm #ScienceNewsroom #mustelids #FSE #research #ecology #conservation #biology #wildlife #biodiversity #ScientistsOnMastodon #conservationbiology @universityofgroningen
On this day 76 years ago, Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac was published. We still have so much to learn from this beautiful and heartbreaking account of one of the foundational American Naturalists.
I wrote a bit about it a couple of years ago after reading it and having my own heart broken.
We need a Land Ethic for our time, and for all time.
alcinnz
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🐠 3D-printed helix shelters increase baby coral survival rates
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-3d-helix-baby-coral-survival.html
#coral #animals #oceans #3dprinting #manufacturing #conservation
🐠 3D-printed helix shelters increase baby coral survival rates
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-3d-helix-baby-coral-survival.html
#coral #animals #oceans #3dprinting #manufacturing #conservation