Peregrine reintroduction project in my adopted home city is creating objections from pigeon racing enthusiasts. It's a heady mix of human-wildlife interactions, urban rewilding, reintroductions and angry people in local newspapers thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/24094749.…

🌱Ecologists and biodiversity specialists – your expertise is needed! Contribute to research on unrecorded forest biodiversity by answering this survey: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/leeds/forest…   This is part of my PhD research at the University of Leeds. I’d be grateful for your input🌳 🧵1/9

1/7 Forests of Refuge is now officially out in the world! 🥳

Interesting new paper by Helena Slater which shows the difference between how we OUGHT to train conservationists, and how we ARE training conservationists. In Conservation Science and Practice conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cs…

Great paper in Conservation Biology on what 'empowerment' does mean, and should mean, in conservation. Wonderful to see a powerful critique of power and decolonisation in a (largely) natural science journal conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

News article on human-beaver coexistence in Tayside, Scotland, and mitigation measures to reduce conflict (weirdly, featuring my dad) bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Are you interested in social-environmental systems and causal inference? Come work with me and apply for one of these fellowships! I was successful in getting one earlier in my career and it was transformational!! …sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-pos…

Get excited! Here we present the plenary speakers for our Conservation Social Science Conference 2024🥳 Stay tuned for more information about them in the upcoming days! #SocialSciences #Conference #ConBio

📢 More The Leverhulme Trust scholarships DICE Kent !! 4 MSc+PhD scholarships available! We want to help UK students from underserved backgrounds gain postgrad education in conservation! So, MSc first then possible PhD - 5 yrs fully funded! Please share with students/graduates

Just for all the people sending me very angry messages, I'm Prof George Holmes from University of Leeds, not Prof George Holmes, vice-chancellor of University of Bolton.

#POLLEN24 session on 'invisibility' in conservation reminds us on how many experiences of animals are fleeting, ephemeral, temporary yet leave a lasting political impact. e.g. predators move in, kill, move out yet leave livestock losses and angry people.

#POLLEN24 Benjamin Neimark raises the crucial question of labour relations in conservation and the green transition - who is doing the actual work on the ground, under what conditions, the precarity, risks and opportunities. The conservation working class.

#pollen24 Ariadne Collins - in Guyana and Suriname, the colonial legacy on environmental governance is strong. If we are to decolonise, we need to decentre the state, and maybe the answer lies with re-engaging with pre-colonial and maroon ideas of the environment

Lectureship in Critical Human Geography with my colleagues over in Geography at Leeds jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r…

New paper published: Assessing the breadth and multidisciplinarity of the conservation curriculum in the United Kingdom and Australia doi.org/10.1093/biosci… Thanks to all of the participants and to co-authors Janet Fisher, George Holmes, Chris Sandbrook and Aidan Keane

Donfrancesco, V., (2024) “De- and re-peasantization through wolves: A more-than-human political ecology of agrarian change”, Journal of Political Ecology 31(1), 586–603. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe.57… POLLEN Valerio Donfrancesco

"There's a new criminal trend emerging in England - 'beaver bombing'." Newsnight explores trend of vigilantes illegally releasing beavers into the countryside - and speaks to Derek Gow, a conservationist who says we should "erect statues" to the people responsible. #Newsnight

Today we launch ‘Uncaged Conservation’, an online platform that creatively represents the (sensory) realities of a bird market in Indonesia. Designed by Sicily Fiennes 🇵🇸, Ishaan Patil & Louis Lugas, with funding from PARDICOLOR & Creature Conserve. uncagedconservation.com