(News Release) Dan Stahler has been selected as the new leader of Yellowstone’s Wolf Project. A 21-year veteran of the NPS, Stahler succeeds Doug Smith, who retired at the end of December 2022. More: nps.gov/yell/learn/new…

Sure is interesting that the Medicare cost curve bent exactly when Obama signed a major health reform law one of whose stated goals was to bend the Medicare cost curve. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

The first global stocktake - an accounting of progress to the Paris climate goals - is out. The red is the range of promised actions. The blue and teal are where we need to be. Full report here: unfccc.int/documents/6316…

Human demography in NYT this morning. If the spike in human population is a temporary phenomenon, all the more reason to prevent extinctions so that wildlife make it through to the other side of the bottleneck. Next 100 years are critical for conservation nytimes.com/interactive/20…

⚠️ rgdal, rgeos, and maptools won’t be available on CRAN after October 2023. ⚠️ What are the consequences of this change? What do you need to do as a user and as a developer? Read my blog post at buff.ly/3NbhLez #rstats #rspatial #gischat #geocompx

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NEW PAPER: We followed 76 grizzly bears in a human-dominated landscape to explore coexistence. What we found surprised us. Tons of mortality, tons of conflict, and yet also tons of bears—3x denser than Banff National Park. How could this be possible? 🧵 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Urgent OSU Alert: Bomb Threat in Starship food delivery robots. Do not open robots. Avoid all robots until further notice. Public Safety is responding.

Our new #openaccess paper in Conservation Biology draws lessons from the UN Biodiversity CBD COP15 on how to make scientific engagement in policy processes more effective, but it's also timely to the ongoing UN Climate Change climate #cop28 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

There's lots of announcements and news coming out of #COP28. I'm here to rank them for you from a climate scientist's perspective, using 🌴 for the wins and 🤦‍♀️ for the facepalms. Did I miss something? Let me know and I'll add it to this list! #ClimateAction #COP28FromHome 🧵

Coastal areas are an explicit part of global & national protected & conserved areas targets, but have been neglected in reporting. Our new paper looks at how we can measure coastal conservation & report on Canada's progress. @ultravioletprof KBA Canada parksjournal.com/parks-29-2-nov…

This highlights the challenges of consensus-based COP processes. For UN Biodiversity CBD COP15 , agriculture is/was an analogous third rail although not as central as OPEC is to UN Climate Change #COP28 OPEC Tells Members to Block Deal to Curb Fossil Fuels nytimes.com/2023/12/08/cli…

🧵 Breaking news! Dutch government launch new “high-ambition” group on fossil subsidy reform. Fresh out of at CoP press conference right now led by HRH Jaime de Bourbon de Parme. Read on for more details…

A really disappointing decision out of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today. Maintaining healthy populations of gray wolves relies on existing ESA protections, and denying them gives way to reckless state actions.

I was considering submitting a paper to Nature Ecology and Evolution, then I saw that the open access fee was 12 THOUSAND dollars! What the actual crap!? I can do a lot of research for 12k. Charging authors 12 grand to publish THEIR OWN work is the craziest nonsense imaginable

"In his Oscar acceptance speech, Jonathan Glazer issued a universal moral warning against dehumanization. His aim was not to descend to the level of political discourse. Critics who expected a clear political stance or a film solely about genocide did not grasp the depth of his

Global trends and scenarios for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services from 1900 to 2050. Our paper Science Magazine shows declines in biodiversity and regulating services driven by land-use can be slowed but climate impacts are accelerating #1/ science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

This is our final post on this site. Look for us on blue sky for info about new data and publications including a new paper "Sources of uncertainty in estimation of climate velocity and their implications for ecological and conservation applications" doi.org/10.1111/csp2.1…