Happy Earth Day everyone! 🐧

It’s now or never for #Africanpenguins – if we don’t halt their decline, they will go #extinct . dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-0…
BirdLife South Africa 🇿🇦 #BiodiversityLawCentre
#Endangeredspecies

Huge win for our seabirds!

All Scottish waters and the English North Sea are now CLOSED to industrial sandeel trawling.

That means more fish for seabird beaks.

After a quarter century of campaigning, we're delighted GOV.UK and Scottish Government have put these closures in place.

I wish we were there yet for the #AfricanPenguin !
Congratulations RSPB
Check out how SANCCOB and BirdLife South Africa 🇿🇦 are trying to get key foraging areas for African penguins protected

dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-0…

And we could save the #AfricanPenguin from #extinction if we implemented meaningful no-take zones around key breeding colonies
SANCCOB BirdLife South Africa 🇿🇦

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Congratulations Dr Aimee McIntosh for being shortlisted here!! University of Exeter CEC Research at Exeter Prof Brendan Godley Uni of Exeter Doctoral College

🔔New #job opportunity: Senior Marine Policy Officer – RSPB

▪️Location: Flexible in the UK
▪️Salary: £36k - £39k
▪️Closing: 19 April
▪️Full details here 👉 cmscoms.com/?p=38415

📩Sign up for our #OceanJobs alerts here 👉 bit.ly/3MiyV7i
#vacancy

The news I’ve been dreading.
My heart is heavy.

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Fancy a permanent academic position? Research background in Marine Vertebrate Ecology & Conservation? Job live @ The Lyell Centre now
tinyurl.com/44rusdwj - (also 4 excellent non-marine vert jobs too)

We are delighted that Scottish Government has today announced its intention to close Scottish waters to industrial sandeel fishing!
We have championed this cause for over 25 years, and last year over 11,000 supporters voiced their support for this closure!
📷 Ben Andrew

A ban on fishing for sandeel in Scottish waters will benefit our #marineenvironment and seabird populations

Sandeel play an important part in the marine ecosystem, providing food for marine mammals, seabirds and predatory fish

bit.ly/3udr0V0

#MarineNews

Maybe something to consider #SouthAfrica ? Sardines are depleted and #seabird numbers are plummeting. Time for action Minister of Environment, Forestry & Fisheries 🇿🇦
SANCCOB BirdLife South Africa 🇿🇦 WWF South Africa

Agreed. This figure is both visually stunning and conceptually heartbreaking. Crazy really...

This weekend we lost a legend of seabird research and conservation with the passing of Mike Harris. We are indebted to his extraordinary vision setting up the Isle of May work and dedication in maintaining one of the finest studies of seabird ecology over more than 50 years. 1/2

.ICES has published a set of papers on critical threats to #seabirds from #bycatch & other human activities, with potential solutions, such as bird-scaring lines, which have been found to be hugely effective in many #fisheries around the world 👉 buff.ly/3RnxKZ5

Important R paper just out: 'arcgisbinding: An R package for integrating R and ArcGIS'
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Package at this repo: github.com/R-ArcGIS/r-bri…
Software + data: github.com/orhuna/arcgisb…
#spatialdatascience

I have never worked harder on a paper in my entire life! Here, with Sarah Converse and Gardner Lab, we merge IPMs and IBMs in a spatially explicit projection model to estimate current and project future population dynamics of wolves in Washington State. 🐺

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!!Deadline 13th Dec 2023!! Join a friendly team at UofG_SBOHVM to support analysis of novel and exciting migration and wintering movement data of #gannets 🥳
Any questions on details to Jana Jeglinski jobs.ac.uk/job/DDT044/tec…

Recruiting an MPhil student from next April supervised by me and Rhiannon Austin with SEGUL at University of Liverpool . Focus is the utility of #UAV censusing tropical #seabirds . Applied science project with lots of opportunities. See here for details tinyurl.com/y5exm86j. Please share!

🦅🎣 Learn about the impacts of fishing on seabirds and the conservation challenges they face in the latest ICES Journal of Marine Science themed set. Fishing remains one of the biggest threats to seabirds around the world.

Dive in ➡️ ices.dk/news-and-event…

Cartoon Bas Köhler