New study confirms what awareness campaigns have been highlighting for years: rhino horns are not medicine and have zero health benefits. In fact, they can contain potentially toxic minerals and metals. news.mongabay.com/2024/09/as-a-m…

Aswathy and I are excited to announce our first workshop for PhDs and postdocs. We will work to generate outreach material based on personal narratives. Please sign up and spread the word! forms.gle/rSVYtqeZvb6ycv…

Reintroducing beavers to wetlands benefits bats, research suggests geographical.co.uk/news/reintrodu…

Nonhuman primates are capable of vocally labeling their conspecifics and learning these vocal labels from each other. Another exciting bioacoustics study! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

It’s the first time a frog—or any amphibian—has been observed pollinating a plant. #NationalWildlifeDay News from Science scim.ag/8fI

🌿 Applications open: Cambridge Masters in Conservation Leadership! 🎓 For professionals with 3+ years experience. Full/partial scholarships available. Shape the future of conservation. Apply by 3 Dec 2024. Details & apply: cl.geog.cam.ac.uk

Early career researchers in conservation social sciences based out of India.Would you be interested in being a research asso. on project on conservation labour-carry out qualitative field work in a PA &be involved in subsequent analysis and pubs?

Fantastic article about a range-shifting species, debunking the notion that species have static native ranges, and underlining how range shifts—which also characterize us humans—form a key part of #ClimateAdaptation blurring the line between invasive species and refugees. #owls

Farmed fur animals harbour viruses with zoonotic spillover potential | Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

today i learned that literal birds, in the skies, in the trees, get to spend way more time raising their young than the workers at Audubon Society. the sparrows are beating your ass at maternity leave Elizabeth Gray

🌳20yr study in a Japanese old-growth #forest reveals that high #tree #species richness enhances productivity stability through asynchronous growth & reduced dominance of single species: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

#ERC Starting grant results are out. East-Central Europe looks like it always does 😮‍💨 Czechia 🇨🇿 2, Estonia🇪🇪 2, Croatia🇭🇷 1, Poland🇵🇱 2, Slovenia🇸🇮 2, Lithuania🇱🇹 2. For comparison - Finland🇫🇮 18, Austria🇦🇹 24. Congratulations to all winners nonetheless and of course!

No basis for this widely usd claim; we barely know the full diversity of life on earth through mainstream ways of measuring biodiversity. Other research have shown importance of Indigenous lands in conservation, spreading wrong stats could cause more harm. nature.com/articles/d4158…

California's state senate has passed the Room to Roam Act.​ ​This bill brings statewide habitat connectivity to the forefront, mitigates negative human interactions with wildlife & ensures genetic diversity for iconic species like mountain lions. aldf.org/project/room-t…

🚨Fresh #sleep paper out in Trends in Ecology & Evolution with a #social twist!🚨 The sociality of sleep in animal groups A beautiful team effort of researchers studying #sleep Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior & Universität Konstanz led by the fantastic Pritish Chakravarty and Meg Crofoot 👏 cell.com/trends/ecology…

Biodiversiy is declining, yet we have limited knowledge about how that affects human well-being. My work linking bats, insecticide use, and human infant health is out today in Science (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…), and tells a complex story about how those are connected.

Human and bat lives are inextricably connected, and this unusual study teases out exactly how. I really enjoyed reporting on this earlier this week, w thanks to Tess McClure theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Woah! New research shows how vital biodiversity is to thriving humanity: In US counties where bats declined from white-nose syndrome, insect numbers surged, leading to a 31% rise in pesticide use and subsequently *an 8% increase in infant mortality*! #Biodiversity #Conservation

Our new research out today in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews reveals how the fossil fuel industry has strategically invested in universities for decades to block transformative climate action. w/ Sofia Hiltner, Emily Eaton Noel Healy Andrew Scerri Geoffrey Supran THREAD

.⁦Kenya Wildlife Service⁩ ⁦Visit Tanzania⁩ @wwf WildlifeDirect Cross border jumbos are a shared resource. Let us save our #supertuskers for this and all future generations. #StopHunting elephants in Kilimanjaro Wart, Enduimet and Greater Amboseli . Please share