Over the last weeks, a substantial amount of new evidence has become available about immunity to #SARSCoV2. This information can be difficult to process and integrate. As such I felt it may be helpful to write a thread to summarise the information and provide some context. (1/13)

Learn from the pandemic to prevent further envionmental catastrophes - essay by Andrew Balmford, brendan fisher David Wilcove, Ben Balmford and me. phys.org/news/2020-07-p…. cell.com/current-biolog…

What should we learn from the pandemic to guide responses to climate change and biodiversity loss? Essay by Andrew Balmford, Ben Balmford, brendan fisher, David Wilcove and me. cell.com/current-biolog…

Listen to the scientists: „the spread of coronavirus shares common characteristics with both global heating and the impending „sixth mass extinction" of #biodiversity

Lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic, such as early intervention & lifestyle changes for the collective good, should be applied to the environmental crises of global heating & species extinction, say scientists including Prof Georgina Mace UCL Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research UCL Biosciences ucl.ac.uk/news/2020/jul/…

Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic could help avert global warming and mass species extinction – University of Exeter & University of Cambridge: bit.ly/3e7tLJ7 NEW today on Viral Stories #ClimateCrisis #COVIDー19

Why is biodiversity important? A pre-lockdown event - detailed but very diverse discussion @edenproject hosted by The Royal Society, expertly chaired by Gillian Burke @gillians_voice with involving Sir Tim Smit, Sebsebe Demissew, Lindsay Turnbull et moi. royalsociety.org/science-events…

We're looking for a postdoc to upscale the biodiversity-ecosystem services relationship within the globally unique @Exploratories project. 2yrs SENCKENBERG, Frankfurt. Please RT senckenberg.de/de/ueber-uns/s…

Good news! Tackling land-use change *and its drivers* could stop terrestrial biodiversity decline by 2050, says ensemble of #biodiversity models including #PredictsProject. Proud to be part of big paper in @nature today, led brilliantly by David Leclere 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 nature.com/articles/s4158…

How can we halt future #MassExtinction and protect our #Wildlife? A new #study led by David Leclere 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 published in @nature and featured in WWF’s latest #LivingPlanetReport proposes pathways to bend the curve of #biodiversity loss. bit.ly/2Rp5Z2J

Great to see the latest #LivingPlanetReport out today, although the statistics on the state of biodiversity make for grim reading. With a UCL Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research contribution on drivers of biodiversity change on land, led by Adrienne Etard and @jjwilliams924. wwf.org.uk/living-planet-…

Global animal populations have on average declined by 68% since 1970, according to the WWF #LivingPlanetReport 2020 involving UCL Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research researchers. Prof Georgina Mace says conservation actions alone won't be enough to "bend the curve on biodiversity loss" bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

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