🧠 It raises interesting points on the drivers of deforestation. In short, 1️⃣ Is social bargain for election votes or governance the driver?🗳 2️⃣ The countries were a homogenous group (tropical & low GDP)🗺 3️⃣ Proposes that the EKC is driving deforest instead of elections!🏛

Our newly published response states:1️⃣ Elections could be moments when bad governance exacerbated.🗳 2️⃣The chosen group of countries may be more prone to bargaining for votes.🗺 3️⃣ Countries with less mature institutions are likely to have stronger election cycles.🏛

Does biodiversity offsetting work? 🎺New paper 🎺 in Global Change Biology: we evaluate outcomes of one of world’s oldest offset systems in Victoria (Australia). TLDR: hard to tell (data limitations). But looks like there were serious additionality issues. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

It's not every day you get to summarise your PhD research (& AJPA paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…) in Australian Senate . Here's my take yesterday's announced audit on #EPBCAct #offsets.

Room AD1 at 10:15 for anyone keen to hear about how we transform governments to be able to implement 30x30! @ICCB2023

Colleagues at #ICCB2023. Do join our symposium: "From Isolation to Integration: strengthening wildlife monitoring at the national scale in Kenya and Uganda". 25 Jul, 12:00-1:30pm, MH1. My talk: "Recognising big cat monitoring as a full-fledged science".

Rangers, ministers, scientists, and a field team all presenting in a brilliant @ICCB2023 symposium on lion monitoring in East Africa! Well done Alex Braczkowski, Arjun Gopalaswamy and team. Setting the bar high.

Here's the story of how some senior academics plagiarized my work, led by my former advisor Stuart Pimm. I reported research misconduct to Duke University a while ago. Earlier this year, they had to acknowledge their wrongdoing, though they did so very subtly. This is what happened👇

Happy world lion day! I wrote this article with Duan Biggs and Peter Lindsey from Lion Recovery Fund on the perils and pace of life as a male lion in Africa. Some of my best moments have been in the company of these fantastic cats 🦁theconversation.com/the-fast-furio… via The Conversation Africa

Between 2011-2013, China poured more concrete than US did in the *20th century*. What’s the biodiversity offsetting policy managing all that ecological damage? Our new paper led by Shuo Gao , we think 1st Eng-language analysis of China’s offset policy conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Wanna join us as iDiv Biodiversity Research? We have just opened a call for externally funded Junior Research Group Leaders. If you have already a grant or plan to apply to one, we offer some amazing conditions here, including some start-up funds, but much more! See idiv.de/en/groups-and-…

📰 PRE-PRINT OUT! The Urban Nature Indexes, a new tool, co-designed by Urban Biodiversity Hub, UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, to monitor urban ecological performance (UNI)(doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.…). Find the whole tool here (iucnurbannatureindexes.org/en). (1/5)

1/ The last chapter from my PhD was published online last week, but I have no heart to make a fuss over it when 2.2 million people are under constant bombing. This paper examines the overlaps in ranges of tropical-forest dependent vertebrates & Indigenous peoples lands

ChatGPT use shows that the grant-application system is broken nature.com/articles/d4158…

To those interested in the Ullas WCS fiasco here is an accessible link to see how they disowned him for wearing their shirt - these NGOs man 😂😂😂: frontline.thehindu.com/news/tiger-con…

Our new #openaccess research, out today in Communications Earth & Environment @unswcanberra UNSW ourANU

UK environmental policy folks, worth paying attention to this huge carbon offset scandal in Australia that's been uncovered over the last few years by Megan Evans & team. It's probs the worst national case study I know of garbage offsets being used to justify fossil fuel expansion