People often ask me why so much of what I post is about trophy hunting, rather than other topics to do with #lions & #conservation. So a short thread on why I engage heavily with this issue - much as I would rather not! (1/n)

In this blog we asked the question: can #soybean trade continue to grow whilst minimising its negative #socioeconomic impacts? 🧐 In our next #webinar we discuss some of these socioeconomic impacts in the Cerrado. REGISTER🔗 bit.ly/3oiideh READ bit.ly/3HqMUW4

Silvia Ceausu from UCL kicking the second session!

Wondering what you should do this weekend? Or dreading the boredom of your chores? Listen to season 2 (more episodes to come) of the CBER Lunchbox Podcast! On Acast (shows.acast.com/cber-lunchbox-…)/YouTube (youtube.com/playlist?list=…) UCL Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research @jjwilliams924 @CharlieLouO Gonzalo Albaladejo Robles (1/4)

In episode 1, I interview Sarobidy Rakotonarivo from University of Antananarivo.We discuss her work on understanding how tenure rights affect forest restoration and conservation, how a biodiversity-rich country can help its poor farmers, and how academic life looks like in Africa (2/4)

In episode 2, @jjwilliams924 chats to Joshua Powell from ZSL and UCL. They discuss Joshua’s work on transboundary conservation of threatened and traded carnivores in Northeast Asia, his past work with rangers across the world and the South Korean badger trade (3/4)

In episode 3, I interview JM (Pep) Serra-Diaz, assistant professor at AgroParisTech. We discuss the real-world impact of academia, translating science into forest management, the advantages and disadvantages of the French engineering schools and being gay in academia. (4/4)

New study, led by Joe Millard, shows that agriculture and climate change combined are associated with 60% lower pollinator abundance, on avg. We estimate largest reductions in places used to grow key crops needing animal pollination, such as coffee/cocoa science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

I will be giving a UCL Lunch Hour lecture on the 13th of January, 13:00 – 14:00. More land or higher yields? You can register here: ucl.ac.uk/events/events/…. The talk will also be available as a video recording afterwards on YouTube.