international area-based conservation targets working largely as intended it seems

Super interesting paper on biopolitics of wolf conservation in Germany by Julia Poerting in @Pol_Geog_Jl, especially on treatment of populations versus individual animals, and impacts of conservation infrastructure like fences sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The New Cartographers: Maps & The Colonial Archive A new essay from me in Overland Journal on making maps that expose injustice & tell a more complicated truth about worlds we live in. Oh, I get into the privatisation of old land records too... overland.org.au/previous-issue…

On my way to the #RMITStrikes picket. I am striking today for real wage increase, secure work and an equitable agreement for all. United we win NTEU — RMIT Branch

i have a few invite codes for the other place where the sky is blue if you need

some new writing: “ENGOs are increasingly casting protected area conservation as apolitical, and thereby a bipartisan activity, driven by a “pragmatic” agenda that seeks to secure private financing for land ownership and management obligations” doi.org/10.1080/246944…

Shit Nonprofits Say @pollyjhemming 🤣🎯🤣🎯 made me think of this new article by Ben Cooke & colleagues - great read! x.com/cooke_ben12/st…

really enjoyed thinking about response-ability amidst contemporary art that invites us to see human-environment connections! ⁦ACMI⁩ acmi.net.au/stories-and-id…

Neoliberalism’s insidious grasp on protected area conservation. #auspol

RMIT University Conservation Researcher, Dr Ben Cooke, Benjamin Cooke explores being response-able to nature and our latest exhibition Marshmallow Laser Feast: Works of Nature. 🍃Read more: acmi.me/6v

all day I have been looking forward to getting to settle in and read this piece by Elias Greig who for my money is consistently producing some of the best writing in Australia right now overland.org.au/2024/03/freeho…

bit slow on this but a great piece from Oli Moraes in the @FoE Chain Reaction Magazine about biocultural climate resilience melbournefoe.org.au/biocultural_cl…

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…

“You can’t manage what you can’t measure”: Regenerative agriculture, farming by numbers, and calculability in soil microbiopolitics', my paper is just out in EPE: Nature and Space in opeb access. A 🧵on the main points and potential audiences follows journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/25…

Excited to share my paper co-authored with Associate Professor Benjamin Cooke Benjamin Cooke and Dr. Melissa Neave from RMIT University. This paper discusses the role of urban and regional planning in agroecological transition. tandfonline.com/eprint/UJCMYHY…

CFP: Human/multispecies conflict in sport & leisure. Aims to consider human/multispecies encounters that are a source of conflict, and think beyond nature as a place of therapeutic encounter for humans. Excited to work on this with Benjamin Cooke @RMIT_CUR tinyurl.com/3skjus6s