Today, Gabriel Oppler of Center for Large Landscape Conservation presented virtually to a group gathered in Quito for the First National Meeting of Connectivity Corridors in Ecuador. His talk on ecological connectivity and environmental policy was featured in Session 2. agenda-encuentro.getresponsesite.com

Eating top shelf tonight thanks to Hebblewhite Lab and the best beer there be. (Although mixing elk and kale might be violating several immutable laws of the universe)

We're thrilled that ZSL's Professor Nathalie Pettorelli has been named in ENDS Report Power List 2024, for her work shaping the science on environmental issues. Congratulations Nathalie Pettorelli!🏆 Read more: endsreport.com/power-list

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Leaked Decision Slams LNG Ads for Greenwashing. Great piece by Amanda Follett Hosgood via The Tyee And evidence that we need a actual law to ban misleading ads by oil and gas corporations thetyee.ca/News/2024/05/3…

‘More profitable than farming’: how Ecuador’s birding boom is benefiting wildlife theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Simulation from a baseline model as a way to better understand your data: This is what “hypothesis testing” should be. statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/05/30/sim…

Three scientist mothers call for a change in how conference childcare costs are reimbursed, drawing on their personal experiences go.nature.com/3KfWZIB

Opinion piece: Can writing #ResearchPapers in the first person make them not only easier to read and understand, but also more impactful? In PNAS Front Matter: ow.ly/RHKu50S2Bzy #SciComm #ScienceCommunication #WritingStyle

"[My adviser] told me that instead of focusing on finding a dream job, I should think about what I am good at and what makes me happy at least 80% of the time. This advice surprised me at first, but it ended up being exactly what I needed to hear." scim.ag/7aJ

canadianfieldnaturalist.ca/.../view/3213/… New paper shares min. # species killed in AB’s wolf strychnine program 2005–2020. Fewer wolves were killed compared with non-target animals, including 10 mammal & 4 bird species. I suspect there are even > non-target deaths & suffering caused by 1080.

Law enforcement officers said they were pressured to lie when the governor of Montana, Greg Gianforte, killed a black wolf in 2021. He says the story is an election-year smear. nyti.ms/3VplPvH

Fun intern-led project where we show that black-tailed prairie-dog colonies increase bird diversity on #grasslands -- including positive effects on Horned Lark and Burrowing Owl, 2 rapidly declining species. #ornithology

Key new Government of Northwest Territories Report by an all star team on barren ground caribou demography and impacts of climatic variation and weather across North American caribou herds. Hope to see it published in a journal down the road too! researchgate.net/profile/Robert…

More than wolves have killed….. cows die in all sorts of ways without wolves to blame….Single Lightning Bolt Just Killed 34 Cows in Colorado Outside outsideonline.com/outdoor-advent…

Just got my copy by our amazing Dean & human ⁦Alan Townsend⁩ in the mail! Just in time for the start of kids summer vacation!

New open access paper out in Ecology Letters! We quantified the downstream effects of human-induced fear in wildlife

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We got good news. If you were unable to be part of this years #Animove Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior . Don't worry! All lectures were recorded and will be online in a few weeks. 😃🤙Watch this space....animove.org/elearning/

Intact migrations promote ungulate abundance, as these millions of white-eared kob moving through South Sudan and Ethiopia clearly illustrate. Impressive work by African Parks!