Tens of thousands of dead fish wash up on Texas beach due to low oxygen levels in water abc.net.au/news/2023-06-1… Events like this are only going to become more common with #ClimateChange 🔥

Third meeting of the Udzungwa-Kilombero Restoration Forum. Planning forest restoration across a 53,000 km-sq region in Tanzania, including a field visit to the new Reforest Africa Udzungwa Botanic Garden.

Cool job alert! Postdoc to join the NERC-funded project, Centre for Landscape Regeneration (CLR). The Research Associate will work with Co-I Prof Jennifer Gabrys to review, develop and test community restoration initiatives. jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/41462/

Come and join our team in the Kilombero Valley

Large herbivores keep invasive plants at bay nat.au.dk/en/about-the-f… - Aarhus Universitet press release on our recent study in NatureEcoEvo 🐘🌿🐃🌳 #megafauna #InvasiveAlienSpecies #plants #elephants #ungulates

The value of sustained, long-term, direct observation. Our new paper in NatureClimate led by @Amy_Benno reveals the impact of heat and drought on South American tropical forests. More than 100 colleagues measured trees for 30 years across the continent. nature.com/articles/s4155…

A new PhD started today. She asked for general advice for the first few months. This was my advice: 1. Don’t work evenings or weekends 2. Don’t aim to prove yourself (to me), I’m already convinced of your capacities 3. Go for a walk when things dazzle you (1/3)

📢Exciting news: the Caribbean island of Redonda has been granted protected area status! In just a few short years, Redonda has been transformed from barren ‘moonscape’ into a thriving wildlife sanctuary, & will now be one of the largest protected areas in the Caribbean.

Workshop with forest managers discussing implications of our FoRCE research for managing the Australian Wet Tropics last month. Many people “hate” the native & exotic vines now smothering the forests after all the cyclones and logging! But should we be cutting them?

"The Amazon might not have a 'tipping point.' But it's still in trouble" sciencenews.org/article/amazon…

New pre print on the possibility and challenges for community members and citizen scientists to contribute to monitoring the Global Biodiversity Framework. Useful ahead of CBD meetings in Montreal next week researchsquare.com/article/rs-341…

Elephant-proofing our tree nursery in the Udzungwa Botanic Garden. It needs a sturdy fence!

Here is some recently published work from my lab led by Alain Ngute, who just passed his PhD at UniSC: University of the Sunshine Coast with NO corrections and an award form our Dean. Amazing work Alain! ⭐️

Fantastic work Alain. A really excellent thesis!

🌸 Ecosystem restoration aims to reverse damage, restore habitats, and revive biodiversity through efforts like reforestation, wildflower meadow enhancement, wetland restoration, and coral reef restoration 🪸 But why do some restoration projects succeed while others falter? 👇

Looking forward to presenting on our work selecting conservation indicators and developing monitoring plans at @UQ_CBCS tomorrow.

I am a little late in sharing this one as coincidentally, I was in Tanzania, at the same location where we carried out this newly published work. Another fantastic output from Alain Ngute as part of our FoRCE.

Forests aren't recovering from cyclones in the Australian Wet Tropics and vines, especially rattans, are likely to be the cause. Our work is ongoing, but this is a significant first step. Great work led by PhD student @EmmaMackintosh4.