Due to very low water levels in Guyana, local people have been moving massive fish, called Arapaima, from drying ponds to rivers and lakes, to save them. This is grass roots conservation action at work! See fascinating videos:
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🚨1 week left to apply for a Burnett Scholarship 🚨

6 fully funded scholarships on our MSc in Conservation Science for conservationists from Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia & Zimbabwe

Deadline: 22/04/24

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📢 The 2024 Annual DICE lecture is just as few days away !

Register using the link ⬇️ if you haven't already.

Hope to see many of you there !

Say hello to Dr Harris Arianne Another #Bicknell_lab graduate, in collaboration with DICE Kent and Iwokrama River Lodge. Well done Ari!

We're delighted to have won a prestigious Research England grant, worth £8.3 million, which will enable DICE Kent to answer urgent environmental questions of international importance.

The five-year project, 'Sharing Space for Nature,' will tackle vital conservation issues:

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We're thrilled to announce DICE has been awarded an £8.3 million grant from UK Research and Innovation Enabling Excellence in England (E3) for a 5 year project on 'Sharing Space for Nature: enhancing the role of conservation areas in tackling environmental crises'. bit.ly/429h0bN

📢 The first DICE Talk for the year will be by our very own Dr. Dominique Goncalves where she will talk about her inspiring work with Elephants and local communities at Gorongosa National Park 🐘

Join us in person on the 18th of January at 6.00 PM at GLT1 at the University of Kent

Last chance to apply for this exciting PhD to work with Hutan Harapan in Indonesia - fully funded and open to non-UK applicants. Deadline Wed 10th Jan (2359 GMT)

Iwokrama River Lodge DICE Kent University of Guyana - OFFICIAL And ofcourse, and equally big thank you to the Iwokrama Science Program Iwokrama River Lodge , through which this research was made possible 💚🌿🙌

Heartfelt thanks are extended to the field team, fellow authors, and the wonderful collaborators that X won't give me more characters to mention haha💚This was no easy task and we're beyond grateful for the many hands that worked with us ! Iwokrama River Lodge DICE Kent University of Guyana - OFFICIAL

Our study demonstrates how best practice forestry and logging can maintain healthy vertebrate populations over the long term. Through the adoption of low-harvest RIL techniques and management for long-term timber provision, we can benefit from biodiversity ecosystem services!

Assemblage changes were also predicted by vertical stratification of forest use, with avian species using the understorey and mid–upper levels of the forest being most affected !🐦🌳

1year after logging only minor changes could be detected but 10years later richness slightly declined in some groups, while others showed recovery, indicating that some niches may have subtle, but long-term relaxation effects occurring, while others recovered or remain unchanged

We sampled bird (mist-net and point count) and bat assemblages pre-logged, 1 year after & 10years after RIL in Guyana, using a before-after control-impact (BACI) sampling design.

In this study, we sought to understand what changes may occur in bird and bat assemblages, after a rainforest that underwent Reduced-Impact Logging (RIL), was left to regenerate for 10 years

NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨
I'm so happy to share our newest publication 'Variable shifts in bird and bat assemblage as a result of Reduced-impact logging revealed after 10 years', which is out now in the Journal of Applied Ecology ! 🌿🐦🦇
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