Two MSc's up for grabs for South African students

A great opportunity! Come join us!

Come join us at James Cook Uni!

This is no ordinary whodunit. With the same imagination and attentiveness she brings to her scholarship as an interdisciplinary ecologist, ⁦Harini Nagendra⁩ masterfully recreates period, place and relations from a 1920s Bangalore around Kaveri, her delightful crime-buster.

Very clear and useful work by @KatjaMalmborg and team! Using ecosystems service bundles to convey complexity and navigating a truly transdisciplinary participatory resilience assessment.

Applications are open for the new NRF-MINDS Doctoral Scholarship 2023. Please follow this link to our website for details, all the info needed to apply is available here: bit.ly/3sc1JpU. MINDS @dsigovza #AfricaMonth

The Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Research Grant for 2022 is now open. The grant of $150 000.00 is available to African researchers, and one can enter by sending an application to Oppenheimer Generations Research & Conservation .

So stoked to get this month's editors choice award from Journal of Ecology 😁😁 thanks to the editing team for their hard work.

Please take 5 mins to answer this survey, to inform a game farm certification that will contribute to biodiversity conservation and socio-economic development while also supporting a viable, thriving game meat industry in South Africa. forms.gle/Zxpyy1TaJgCDKG…

📢Come work with me on the very exciting #transdisciplinary Eco ACE project We have 3, diverse masters' projects available for 2023. Closing date for applications is 10 June. DM or email me if you have any questions. #marinesciences #marsocsci #climatechange #adaptivecapacity

A probabilistic landcover dataset with scene-to-scene correspondence with Sentinel 2 that challenges our conventional imagination and approach to landcover mapping, and opens completely new possibilities.

A thread about the newly launched #DynamicWorld landcover dataset by #Google. I had early access and explored this dataset in detail. You may be very excited about this dataset, but likely for the wrong reasons. Sharing some insights, potential use cases, and pitfalls. 1/n

What does it mean to decolonize maps? How can visualizations reveal patterns of injustice & orient collective action? Apply for a fully-funded 4 year PhD position Urban Futures Studio @UUCopernicus w/ me, ᴮʳⁱᵗᵗᵃ ᴿⁱᶜᵏᵉʳ, @maartenhajer & @karinrebel. Deadline Aug 25! uu.nl/en/organisatio…

Probably one of the best places to really build a solid research and teaching profile persuing your interest in a natural resource management field of your choice. Nice campus and great area to live in.

Today is #WorldRhinoDay! 🦏🎉In this article, Clements et al share information about private #rhino #conservation in #SouthAfrica while looking at the diverse strategies adopted in response to the poaching crisis. You can find it at doi.org/10.1111/conl.1… #science #tbt

Are you working with Social-Ecological Systems research methods? Check out the launch of the new website of SES methods this Thursday and hear more from Oonsie Biggs, @resilienceSci, Alta De Vos, Dr Miriam Huitric, @aequinlan, & others. Find more infos 👇(JH)

1/3... Our new paper led by Marty Anderies doi.org/10.1016/j.bioc… in #BiologicalConservation presents a minimal modelling framework for social-ecological systems #socecosys #SESs in #conservation contexts. Sivee Chawla Dr Steve Lade @[email protected] Hayley Clements @RSeppelt Birgit Frohn

Understanding how wildlife ranches coped with the pandemic can provide lessons for building resilient conservation systems in a changing world. Our new paper in NatureSustainability Alta De Vos Matthew F. Child Kyra Lunderstedt Lehman Lindeque nature.com/articles/s4189… 1/11

Great piece by Hayley Clements Alta De Vos & Matthew Child (can't find his X handle) on why the new #biodiversity strategy in South Africa is a positive step forwards for #wildlife and people theconversation.com/south-africas-…

Why giving value to wildlife through sustainably using it is a good thing for people and nature - our thoughts on South Africa’s revised National Biodiversity Economy Strategy Alta De Vos and Matthew F. Child African Wildlife Economy Institute Centre for Sustainability Transitions HELICS Oppenheimer Generations Research & Conservation Agence Française de #Développement (AFD) 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 Koneen Säätiö