Happy Lunar New Year! 2022 is the Year of the Tiger🏮🐯🎉 Sadly, tigers are endangered. Only 5/8 subspecies are left. Major causes of decline include habitat loss and human pressures. Let's wish tigers and the conservation efforts supporting them fortune + luck! PC:Nature

Ever wonder if protected areas are effective at conserving wildlife? Well, new research and photos from the University of British Columbia have shed some insight on their effectiveness. @ubcforestry @wildco.bsky.social on Bluesky UBC Zoology Cheng Chen Cole Burton @ubcnews @loubosshartubc bit.ly/3rE8YqU

“Has the protected areas strategy been working?” A new study from #UBCForestry’s Cole Burton & Cheng Chen used thousands of global camera traps to illuminate their usefulness in conserving biodiversity. Read here: bit.ly/3LxwE86 The Weather Network

I didn't expect this to synchronise with breakout of war and economic collapse, but some positive news for bird people: the global dataset many of you helped to collect is now finally released - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el… - as part of a special issue onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14610248/2… #T10K

Data from thousands of surveillance cameras confirms that protected areas safeguard species diversity theconversation.com/data-from-thou…

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It’s 4am in Montreal and after several years of negotiations, governments have just adopted an historic Global Biodiversity Framework for saving nature. Here’s a thread with my take on what's good and what's bad in it.

Lucky to be part of the amazing lab and thanks for all the support!!

Thank you for being an awesome supervisor, Cole! The Wildco has truly thrived under your guidance and has become such a warm and caring team. I am truly glad to have chosen this lab!

The unsung hero of Southeast Asian conservation science and practice - Guru Mike. He will be dearly missed. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/257848…

This week in Nature: Tropical gains – protected areas exert a positive effect on vertebrate biodiversity. Browse the full issue: nature.com/nature/volumes…

Important new paper highlighting the importance of protected areas (particularly large ones) for mammals and birds in SE Asia, by @BrodieEcology Matthew Scott Luskin Cheng Chen and many others

🐾Chen at al recently shared that combining range maps with accumulating data from ground-based #biodiversity sensors provides a knowledge base for #conservation mapping.📷 Read more at doi.org/10.1111/cobi.1…

#NewPaper: Working with a huge team of 220 co-authors representing 102 projects in 21 countries, we analyzed data from 5400 #cameratraps to ask how #wildlife behaviours changed during the COVID-19 “anthropause” nature.com/articles/s4155… ..1/