Considering the economic costs and risks of #biodiversity loss, HM Treasury has commissioned The Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity, reporting in 2020. The Call for Evidence is now out -see here and respond asap. gov.uk/government/pub….

He also belittled the impact of the Amazon Fund, which has supported more than 100 projects in the region, including several millions for forest firefighters...

Do natural habitats benefit the farmers of Kilombero? This week #AgrisysTanzania fieldwork teams have started collecting the data that will help us find out @marion_pfeifer Modelling, Evidence and Policy

Exciting to see first #AgrisysTanzania camera trap images! @marion_pfeifer @LDBraunholtz Modelling, Evidence and Policy

50th #AgrisysTanzania plot in Kilombero District completed yesterday thanks to our awesome field team. And plenty more data still to collect. @marion_pfeifer Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research

Very good to see my favourite chapter from Sérgio Milheiras Sergio Milheiras' thesis published today in PeerJ Publishing peerj.com/articles/8486 documenting responses of different taxa to four distinct categories of forest management in E Amazonia. #Biodiversity UCL Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research

Now online! Patterns of biodiversity response along a gradient of forest use in Eastern Amazonia, Brazil #coleoptera #nymphalidae #trees #forestmanagement #openaccess peerj.com/articles/8486/

🆕 European Commission announced the 2030 #EUBiodiversity Strategy! 🟢 Protect 30% of 🇪🇺 land & seas 🔵 Make 25,000 km more of rivers flee-flowing 🟡 Reduce risk/use of pesticides by 50% & much more! ec.europa.eu/commission/pre… (1/3) #EUGreenDeal #RestoreNature #BuildBackBetter #ForNature

Excited to see the release today of 'The pollination services of Forest' a collaboration between Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT FAO Forestry Food and Agriculture Organization and D-USYS@ETH for press release:fao.org/news/story/en/… Congratulations to all our co-authors👏👏🙏🙏 Gaby WG

A global biodiversity target to limit species extinction rates would provide a benchmark and rallying point for action, new paper with Mark Rounsevell Tim Newbold @tnewbold31.bsky.social Mike Harfoot Richard D Gregory UCL Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research RSPB science.sciencemag.org/content/368/64…

Tomorrow is #Cerrado day in Brazil and today we published a paper showing that strict protected areas in the Cerrado are essential for the conservation of larger and #threatened mammals, such as as maned wolf, giant anteater and tapir. authors.elsevier.com/a/1bj9-_9CgRSfa

I am deeply saddened by these news. I am also grateful I had the privilege to meet and work with such a brilliant researcher and generous mentor. Georgina will be missed and will continue to be an inspiration to me and many others in the conservation community.

#jobopportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow in Landscape Governance and Human Wellbeing in Africa jobs.leeds.ac.uk/ENVEE1441

The TROPS lab Sciences at Newcastle is working with partners in Tanzania and Kenya forest to identify ‘what to restore, when and where’ in rural human-modified landscapes in the tropics (PI @marion_pfeifer). #AgrisysTanzania #CORRESTOR #ThinkLandscape

👨‍🌾 Starting at 9:30 CET: Science sessions on #Agrobiodiversity production. See you there: EatGrowSave.org! Discussion to be led by Bea Maas 🐦🦇🌳 Tom Wanger-Guerrero Chris J Kettle 🌳🌳🌳🌲🌲🌲🌴🌴🌴🍁🍂🍃 D-USYS@ETH Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT #EatGrowSave

Thank you for the opportunity to present my work linking agroecological practices and smallholder farmer well-being in Kilombero, Tanzania #AgrisysTanzania Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Modelling, Evidence and Policy

New paper out: A Framework to Assess Forest-Agricultural Landscape Management for Socioecological Well-Being Outcomes frontiersin.org/article/10.338…

Great to see this paper out! We explore how smallholder farmer perceptions, socioeconomic conditions, and land management practices, interlink with agroecology, food security and human well-being, in the context of rural landscapes in the tropics. link.springer.com/article/10.100…