Big news! A team of former @natgeo editors and contributors (Rachael Bale Oliver Payne Rene Ebersole) has started a new investigative wildlife journalism nonprofit called WIRE. Incredible that they are continuing this important work: wireonline.org

There can be no #conservation without human rights. Evicting or oppressing people "to protect wildlife" is not just wrong on moral grounds, it also won't do any good for nature in the long run. One would think that 100 years of experience would have taught us this simple truth...

Here we go! Introducing Wildlife Investigative Reporters & Editors (WIRE), a new journalism nonprofit from me, Rene Ebersole, and Oliver Payne to make sure important stories about exploitation of nature and animals continue to be told. wireonline.org

🌍 Introducing the Trainer’s Guide for #CommunityEngagement—a comprehensive tool designed by Ethical Conservation Alliance (ECA) to empower conservation practitioners to work effectively with Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities for biodiversity conservation. #Conservation Thread: 1/20

« For planning purposes, the planet to prepare for use as a base of survival in an apocalyptic event is the one where you're reading this blog ». defector.com/neither-elon-m…

Huh that’s weird. Never could have seen this coming.

Nature decline is now nearing dangerous tipping points, WWF warns - ⁦⁦BBC News (UK)⁩. Wildlife populations have declined by nearly three quarters in the last 50 years, according to WWF’s Living Planet Report. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Warum spielt die gefühlte „Migrationskrise“ in Politik & Medien eine viel größere Rolle als die reale #Klimakrise? Weil #Migration für „die Menschen“ das wichtigere Thema sei, sagen Politik & Medien. Aber erst Politik & Medien haben es „wichtig“ gemacht! spiegel.de/wissenschaft/m…

A rare "OMG" moment in climate news. The EU cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 8.3% last year. That's almost as much as it fell in the pandemic. But with stable (okay stagnant) GDP and renewable energy doing the heavy lifting. Story by Federica Di Sario pro.politico.eu/news/188619

Great thread on how things are (mostly not) going at #COP16 in #Colombia

No words!

Endangered Ethiopian wolves feed on the sweet nectar of a local flower, and may be the first carnivores discovered to act as pollinators. newscientist.com/article/245733…

Twitter is basically a desolate strip mall parking lot on a Tuesday night at around 1am now, but as long as derek guy remains here to educate me and eradicate assorted hypocrites and skinny jeans apologists, I guess I’ll stick around.

I've been hoping for Becca Rothfeld to perform dissection without anesthetic on Jordan Peterson and here it is, a gift link for you. So many good lines. 1/ The gospel according to Jordan Peterson wapo.st/3ZGSfUT

Several extinct creatures such as giant sloths and mammoths survived in South America much later than previously thought, raising questions about the root causes behind some of Earth’s most recent large animal extinctions. newscientist.com/article/246533…

Biologist Tatsuya Amano works to make science a fairer place for non-fluent speakers go.nature.com/4hxomfZ

Job alert for journalists passionate about Central Asia

Brutal financing cuts in humanitarian aid are not a funding shortfall. They are a crisis of responsibility. Millions of innocent people are at risk. The cost of inaction will be measured in more instability and in many lost lives. My statement 👇🏻 unhcr.org/news/press-rel…

On traditional knowledge and #science. From Julian Baggini’s brilliant „How the World Eats: a Global Food Philosophy“.

VIDEO: A helicopter successfully herded 16 critically endangered banteng onto a truck in Cambodia for the first time, conservationists said, marking a "significant achievement" in a country with high rates of deforestation. ➡️u.afp.com/Spqp