Extremely happy of NaturaConnect presence at the N2K Biogeographical Process hosted by EU Environment and Wageningen U&R and the engagement with decision makers from Mediterranean countries

We are today at the Natura2000 N2K Biogeographical Process presenting NaturaConnect EU-level connectivity analyses to support the EU Biodiversity protection strategy

Join our #CapacityBuilding hub to improve your competences in designing and implementing a resilient and well-connected network of #ProtectedAreas 🌿Find learning resources and networking opportunities at buff.ly/43QFhEx🎯 #HorizonEU

Our review 'An assessment of the state of conservation planning in Europe' just came out in The Royal Society B, royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…
In this work we comprehensively assess the scope and complexity of conservation planning exercises in Europe (1/🧵)IIASA
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Big milestone today for the biodiversity monitoring of the Laxenburg Schlosspark where IIASA is hosted. 900 species documented on iNaturalist in this 280 hectare landscape park and Natura2000 sites mostly thanks to BEC_IIASA staff. Congratulations and thank you everyone!

After more than a month, World Health Organization (WHO) and partners managed to access Al-Shifa hospital in northern #Gaza to deliver 19,000 litres of fuel; lifesaving medical supplies for 150 patients; and treatments for 50 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition.

Over 240 patients are being…

Our new work on mapping homologous clusters of global food production is out. We integrated a range of latest global food spatial data and investigated concentrations and risks.
Nice collaboration between IIASA and The Nature Conservancy
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Much of the reporting on European farmers’ protests point to environmental regulations, in particular the Farm-to-Fork strategy (F2F), as the source of anger. Not only is that narrative incomplete, it is also dangerous. A thread on why farmers aren’t a monolithic group. 🧵

The Dutch team who took Shell to court and WON have just published a public 'Climate Case Tool' so that we can all learn from their strategy and success, and replicate it as far as possible.
climatecase.milieudefensie.nl
Thanks to Milieudefensie Donald Pols & the whole team.
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Funding opportunity! Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme is seeking EoIs for Seascape #Restoration Grants within European regional seas. Each grant can be up to USD$5 million for five–year marine restoration projects.
EOIs are due by 30 April.
Cambridge Conservation Initiative Arcadia Fund
endangeredlandscapes.org/open-call-expr…

Please spread the word or apply directly if you have an expertise on EU biodiversity policies and science-policy interface. NaturaConnect EUScience&Innovation🇪🇺 EU Environment

Top ten hazards to avoid when modeling species distributions: a didactic guide of assumptions, problems, and recommendations nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec… #review #guidelines #SDM #ENM Nordic Society Oikos Wiley Ecology & Evolution

If environmental protest movements behaved like the farming unions, governments across Europe would have banned them by now as 'terrorist organisations' or 'organised crime'. The double standards in the application of the law are simply gobsmacking.

Interested in bridging science & policy? Come work with us as a policy officer, to help feeding scientific evidence from NaturaConnect & other BEC_IIASA projects into decision-making & to conveny inputs & requests from decision-makers into our research iiasa.ac.at/employment/job…

Are you our next Early Career Conservation Award winner?

Award includes 3-year SCB Europe membership, 500€ honorarium & free registration to ECCB 2024 Bologna

We welcome nominations from conservationists in both science and practice, deadline March 17th

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This is only partially good news. It once again reinforces the evidence that the only way to rapidly reduce the emissions is to reduce electricity consumption by mowing away from growthism and embracing the principles of ecological economics Jason Hickel George Monbiot

The refusal to accept the two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians, and the denial of the right to statehood for the Palestinian people, are unacceptable.

The right of the Palestinian people to build their own state must be recognized by all.

My God.

You spend weeks researching Israeli crimes in detail, and yet still, South Africa's case at the ICJ shocks beyond words.

Those who cheered on this historic crime should be forced to watch it.

How they will ever scrub away the shame is beyond me.