What an incredible picture. The Iranian conservationists free at last. I'm so delighted to see them looking healthy and happy. #anthopefornature

This is just the best news. Nothing can make up for the time the 9 have had stolen from them, but at least they are out. At last.
nature.com/articles/d4158…

Challenges & opportunities in human dimensions behind cat–wildlife conflict conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

'Free-ranging cat ownership & abandonment occurred less with owners with more knowledge of biodiversity & invasive pp than with respondents with less knowledge of these subjects'

Interested in Primates/One Health/Wildlife Human Coexistence? Join this fabulous event next week. The stellar talks (featuring Sian Waters, Tony Goldberg, Kimberley Hockings , Dr. Luci Kirkpatrick, Kelly Sambucci) will be live-streamed. Register: forms.office.com/e/jxaSnUch15

Really awesome (and impactful!) conservation impact job closing on the 28th April. Do share please.

Really interessting. I was skeptical about how they could tease out a causal effect but the identification strategy makes sense. Crucially they have data on when each person in the panel was interviewed & can assume it's independent of the timing of the protest.

This is absolutely horrific... and at the start of it was a woodlotting sale. We need to stop this through legislative change as well as enforcement action... see savespringalls.co.uk for what's happening in our neck of the woods. Woodland Trust🌳 The Wildlife Trusts Natural England

A Conservation Evidence success story.
Impact assessments need to account for the fact that birds move!
Blog from 7 Apr 2023🎂
wadertales.wordpress.com/2023/04/07/con…
Paper by Josh Nightingale | Global Wader was cited as evidence in decision not to renew the environmental licence for new airport.
#ornithology

There are confirmed reports that four Iranian #conservationists still in prison (+ one on furlough) have been pardoned after six years and three months!

Waiting impatiently for their immediate release! 🙏

#anyhope4nature

Blog post about our new paper: Shock-proofing conservation: are community forests in #Madagascar resilient to a political crisis and its aftermath? communities.springernature.com/posts/shock-pr…
#teamcounterfactual Ranaivo Rasolofoson Chris Barrett Ghislain Vieilledent #biodiversity Photo credit: Trond Larsen

If you'd like to learn how to build freestation.org and other designs of #LowCostSensing for #EnvironmentalResearch register for this fully funded NERC course King's Geography over three days in London and the #ThamesEstuary

Funded undergraduate research placement! What role does soil organic matter stabilization play in long-term peatland degradation from agriculture? Apply: nercdtp.esc.cam.ac.uk/programme/reps

Want to work with farmers to help them improve their sustainability at scale? Come work with us!

Super cool job for a post-doc or research assistant at University of Oxford Oxford Martin School Oxford Biology with HESTIA Farm Sustainability Toolkit, EJ Milner-Gulland and me.

Oooh BES is in Liverpool this year. Just down the road from Bangor. Call for Thematic sessions etc is now open.

Please share! Come join our group! Would suit someone looking for a career in conservation admin or someone keen to use their admin expertise to support conservation science. iccs.org.uk is our group, take a look!

Teacher friends do share

The quality of life in the Netherlands is great (I've experienced it as a part time professor Faculty of Science, Utrecht University). Dutch isn't essential for this role so even if you don't have current links to NL do consider applying. #TuesdayswithTeamCounterfactual #teamcounterfactual
werkenbij.wwf.nl/vacatures/impa…

Do you have people interested in conservation impact evaluation in your networks? My fab colleagues at WWF Netherlands are recruiting a senior advisor for impact measurement. Do please share far & wide.
#teamcounterfactual #TuesdayswithTeamCounterfactual Faculty of Science, Utrecht University
werkenbij.wwf.nl/vacatures/impa…

Calling Brazilian and UK-based early career #biodiversity 🧬🌴🐟🦜🐜researchers please apply to attend our workshop in mid June - 'Integrating population #genomics and #LandscapeEcology to guide Amazonian conservation planning'
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… deadline 19 April.

Great to be on BBC News (World) today talking about #trophyhunting import bans. Key message: such bans are misguided and risk doing more harm than good for wildlife. Key evidence does not support such bans. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…