Congratulations! 🎊

"..We are exploring the use of native bamboos to catalyse the environmental recovery of degraded gold mining lands in the Amazon." blogs.lse.ac.uk/latamcaribbean… Lucy Binfield #thinkbamboo

“I knew I needed to show the young girls of my culture that these barriers can be overcome and they can achieve whatever they wanted in life with focus and hard work.” Read #UBCForestry @shiva_zargar's feature with @UBCGradSchool: bit.ly/3onS6Wg

#UBCForestry grad student Lucy Binfield draws on her experience working with bamboo for livelihood development in a recent study on how the use of native bamboo can aid in the environmental recovery of degrading gold mining lands in the Amazon LSE Latin America and Caribbean Centre: bit.ly/3W2AMTm

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 From Apsana Kafle, Shyam Paudel and myself in Advances in Bamboo Science from Elsevier . We discuss the commercialization of #bamboo value chains in Nepal 🇳🇵 👉 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… John Innes @forestry.ubc.ca on Bluesky @worldbamboo INBAR

In this year's first issues, we explored how #bamboo is lending its strength in the fight against climate change and land degradation. Now, we are excited to present some intricate connections with our planet's biodiversity. 🎋 🍄 🐒 Read it here> inbar.int/bru-magazine/

#CeasefireNOW say ceasefire.

#China is significantly reducing the number of mosques in Ningxia and Gansu provinces under its “mosque consolidation” policy, in violation of the right to freedom of religion. Read all about it in today's Daily Brief: trib.al/h9LItXw

#Trending from Advances in #BambooScience? Read our paper on the #bamboo industry in 🇳🇵 #Nepal 👇

Obsessed with #EastVanPanto especially the baby-friendly performance this year 👏👏👏

📢 We are hiring! 💼 Join #INBAR as a Communications and Design Officer in Beijing, China. If you're passionate about bamboo and sustainable development, have an eye for design and experience managing social media, this role is for you! Apply now inbar.int/jobs/communica…

you either die a gritty local festival by the water selling knives and pirated VCDs, or you live long enough to see yourself become an international real estate investment

Experience Silent Trails, a University of British Columbia pilot project launching Aug 17th. 🍃 Visit select Metro Vancouver regional parks, enjoy nature’s sounds, and share your feedback. Details: silenttrails.ca

Seeing yet another Israeli airstrike targeting a school in Gaza, reportedly the deadliest one yet. These violent attacks on innocent Palestinian civilians and children are terrifying and unacceptable. We cannot become numb to these horrific massacres. This nightmare must end –

Fashion retailer Shein finds child labour in its supply chain theguardian.com/business/artic…

🚨New publication 🚨 Vahid Nasir, Chunping Dai and I explore the future of bamboo within Industry 5.0. We find bamboo CAN be part of a resilient, human-centric, and sustainable future...But there's a long way to go 🎍💚 Springer Nature @forestry.ubc.ca on Bluesky rdcu.be/dYynH

Stop selling arms to Israel then.

1) This is based on conflating Israel with Jewish people. 2) The anti-Palestinian racism in all of this is utterly shameless. Yesterday, Israel killed dozens of Palestinians, as it does every day. They never talk about respecting the grief of British Palestinians.