Our recent paper in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment: Landscape context may be important in assessing the #conservation value of #cocoa agro-forest for #forest-dependent #birds RSPB Science Gola Rainforest @plantsci #SierraLeone 📸 Timneh #Parrot sciencedirect.com/science/articl…🧵1/8

want to join RSPB Science? We have a NEW JOB to save globally threatened species and support BirdLife partners around the world: buff.ly/3MGArQO

As well as supporting our amazing farmers, it's really delicious chocolate. Take it from a chocoholic ;-)

If you read one 🧵 this day/week/month, then please make it this one. I've been fighting dangerous and ill-conceived attacks on nature laws for over a decade - and this is the most potentially catastrophic that I have seen. 👇

At a time when nature needs us most, this #AttackOnNature is unprecedented and threatens the very work that we, our partners and volunteers spend so much of our time dedicated to. Here are the facts 👇 1/16

Some exciting fieldwork has just been completed in Gola Rainforest! Thanks to funding from FPA2, the team have been exploring the impacts of forest friendly cocoa on biodiversity & farmers’ livelihoods NEW BLOG by Natasha Constant & Fiona Sanderson bit.ly/3S0IGsG

📢2 NEW PAPERS published by #RSPBScience & BTO show higher numbers of threatened birds at survey sites with greater levels of coverage by protected area designations! Especially so for those with highest levels of protection afforded by Habitats & Species regulations 👇A thread

1/7 UK protected sites deliver far-reaching benefits for birds, say two landmark studies led by BTO & RSPB Science using data from three large-scale UK #CitizenScience programmes monitoring bird populations. #Ornithology #Volunteers #ProtectedAreas

1/2: In my blog for Green Alliance I explore the policy implications of brilliant new science 📢 out today from Fiona Sanderson et al RSPB Science & Dr Ailidh Barnes et al BTO which tells us more about the value of protected areas for nature within and beyond their boundaries

1/13: ⚠️🚨Ahead of the start of CBD COP15 tomorrow, new science by RSPB Science & BTO provides new evidence on the critical role of protected sites for birds, both within and beyond their boundaries ... 🧵👇🏻

New "The main message is still the same – European birds are declining, & the most pronounced decline is visible in the farmland birds. Species like Skylarks, Turtle doves or Lapwings keep falling & vanishing from the European countryside" RSPB Science European Bird Census Council BirdLife Europe & Central Asia ⬇️🐦

📢#NewJob! Fantastic opportunity to join #RSPBScience as a Senior Conservation Scientist! The post will lead & develop science projects in our international team, inc island restoration & #InvasiveSpecies bit.ly/3Wa9AQR | #Ornithology Harry Marshall Fiona Sanderson

📢#NewJob closing soon! Great opportunity to join us as a Senior Conservation Scientist! The post will lead & develop science projects in our international team, inc island restoration & #InvasiveSpecies bit.ly/3Wa9AQR | #Ornithology Harry Marshall Fiona Sanderson

📣NEW JOB - Land Cover Change Modeller - Greater Gola Landscape #RSPBScience is looking for a Conservation Scientist with expertise in spatial modelling of remotely sensed land cover data to work with our International team Apply here👉bit.ly/3EmItMm

Could you use your R/Google Earth modelling skills to predict land use change? Would you like to use those skills to help communities conserve their tropical forests whilst developing sustainable livelihoods in a W African biodiversity hotspot? Then come work with us!

6 days left to apply! Come work with us and use your R/Google Earth modelling skills to forecast land use change in a W African landscape.

📣NEW JOB CLOSING SOON- Land Cover Change Modeller - Greater Gola Landscape #RSPBScience is looking for a Conservation Scientist with expertise in spatial modelling of remotely sensed land cover data to work with our International team Apply here👉bit.ly/3EmItMm

Under my alternative identity I sometimes have poems published - sharing this here in case anyone wants to read about the incredible botanical artist Marianne North in verse form inksweatandtears.co.uk/fiona-sanderso… . I assume they’ll kick me out of spy programme for blowing my cover now :-o

The tale of a bird in the crossfire Interview with #RSPBScience John Mallord discussing how vultures ended up on the verge of extinction in South Asia, in the crossfire of veterinary medicine & poison baiting due to human-wildlife conflict tbsnews.net/environment/na… SAVE_vultures

Article by Spoorthy Raman @Mongabay. How our science helps us understand how Gola Rainforest cocoa can support globally threatened birds and human livelihoods and avoid rainforest loss. 📰bit.ly/4d5GLyO for article 👩‍🔬bit.ly/4b41LnU for paper Fiona Sanderson