Europe - a patchwork quilt of green & yellow (canola oil) from Warsaw to Wicklow - a less mentioned problem for biodiversity - landscape homogeneity. Yet it has as many impacts as other frequently mentioned "drivers" ipbes UN Biodiversity Wildlife Health Australia #BiodiversityDay

"Wildlife Health Australia (WHA) is celebrating National Reconciliation Week in 2023 by acknowledging the tens of millennia of stewardship and conservation of Australia’s wildlife by First Nations peoples," WHA Chair Peter Bridgewater said. Read more: bit.ly/3OJ6uTV

today National Reconciliation week starts. Reconciliation is a vital process of making Australia adult, and is as critical as any other issues facing us. Well achieved, it will also help us solve other issues; social, cultural, and environmental..

Hey Qantas you lost a 717? It's at SJO if you want to pick it up - or is this a new international destination from Canberra Airport ? ACT Government ,😊

Looking forward to taking part in this Alternet extravaganza talking up the uncomfortable space between science & policy; & exploring the realities of policy development rather than the textbook ideas

I'm not the least bit uncomfortable heading into this discussion, but maybe 🤔 I should be. 😅. But getting enough pizzazz in transformative change means getting uncomfortable...

too late I've read it, & it's the 2019 fires in Australia repeated. we need to have conversations with first nations about fire and how to deal with these fires because they respond to landscape "protection". First Nations have knowledges that can help.

my review of an important book on #trees; #woodlands; and #people. A good addition to the literature on nature and culture and the interactions between them.

indeed! it is quite depressing to hear of the priorities that politicians everywhere seem to embrace, seduced by soundbites - and - whisper is soft - heavy lobbying by NGOs whose business model demands these issues remain in the headlines..

The DWP Global Summit 2023 features a truly unique panel of speakers, including Peter Bridgewater, who will be speaking on biodiversity. Don’t miss his talk! Register today at event.digitalwithpurpose.org #digital #event #DWP2023 #DWP #digitalwithpurpose #GESI #biodiversity

Best product placement without sight of the product is line from Kendall in Succession S4 "dude whatcha gonna do, sit in the dark & drink Laphroaig?" Congrats Laphroaig Whisky 😅, I like you too!

On #internationalmangroveday in Shenzhen China an initiative - the international mangrove center - is being born. The center, under the Convention on Wetlands , will have a key global role in promoting mangrove conservation, thereby helping the global fight against negative climate change

given the speed and direction of global change Joshua Styles is right. It is time we stopped dreaming of the Arcadia that never was and focused on what we need to do to carry this planet over the next 50 years to a more stable situation. Backwards won't do it, forwards will.

editorial link.springer.com/article/10.100… by @DSSchmeller & me to the special issue on Transformative change in Biodiversity and Conservation special issue. All the articles are great, and the editorial is a good "thumb guide" to them all.

Bernie Hennecke, Chief Environmental Biosecurity Officer, and me as Chair Wildlife Health Australia flying the flag ipbes #10 where we are reviewing the important Summary for Policy Makers on Invasive Alien Species. Hopefully by Friday we will have a great product!

day 4 ipbes #10 - as usual critical day to see real progress on the discussions. @ipbes LinkedIn page (tinyurl.com/25zsozn6 ) gives short update. It is probably time to overhaul the @ipbes process of assessment acceptance/approval to make the meetings more productive

still hard at work in @ipbes #10 and apologies that the keyboard (never my fingers! 🤭) made an error and managed to call Bertie Bernie! whatever the name mess, a great team in action! DCCEEW Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

It is Wattle day in Australia - celebration of our national floral emblem, & the start of spring. Meanwhile, wattle we do in @ipbes #10 today? Hopefully spring into action, not drown in semi-colons. Apologies for all the puns; 4 days @ipbes does that to you...

The day after ipbes #10 heading onwards with very l8 Dbahn to Bruxelles. Meanwhile showing theme of invasive alien species & foreshadowing the nascent Connectivity assessment Photo of rail tracks with invasive plants, spatially & bringing genes from the earliest land plants.

again! 😳my excuse is i was giving a seminar 😅 on May 10, International day for Argania - commemorating the amazing Argan tree of Morocco conserved in UNESCO Biodiversity Arganarie Biosphere Reserve so missed the day! long may the species and the communities who live there survive...