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The battle for the Maasai Mara: Can Kenya’s most iconic ecosystem be saved?
Court cases over new lodges have raised questions about protecting one of Africa’s greatest wildlife spectacles.Al Jazeera
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: Researchers in #Brazil reconstructed 3.3 million years of #tropical #vegetation #history and projected changes by 2050.
They found that #climatechange could produce #ecosystem shifts within decades that took millions of years to unfold naturally. Species that evolved in stable tropical refuges, including much of the Malay #Archipelago, face the highest risk from this compression of change over time.
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#climate #amazon #biodiversity #deforestation #globalwarming #ecology #science #ufmg #machinelearning #conservation
Impact of climate change may be equivalent to 3.3 million years of transformations in tropical vegetation
Changes that took millions of years can now happen in a matter of decades, and this accelerated rythm can be destructive, with dangerous consequences for the planetThe Conversation
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Scotland becomes first UK country to put Swift bricks into law
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DATE: July 28, 2026 at 12:59AM
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Recently Scotland has passed a rule requiring bricks with space for birds in new construction.
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#Birds #Scotland #swifts #nesting #ecology #construction #conservation #UK #design #UrbanPlanning #harmony
Me: "Swift? As in boat? As in Thick as a Swift Brick? A new bird for me, not in UK, but good on Scotland! Co-existence.
Swift Bricks 🧱 | The Good News Podcast | Episode 1345
Recently Scotland has passed a rule requiring bricks with space for birds in new construction. Read more about the rule hereThe Good News Podcast (Transistor)
💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🦛🍞 Pygmy #hippo Brötchen ("breadroll") was born May 9th at #Zoo #Berlin, a compact 6 kilos (~13 lbs) with skin oils that double as natural sunscreen.
She explores the outdoor enclosure with mother Debbie, while her wild relatives in #WestAfrica face #mining and #deforestation threats. Fewer than 2,500 adults remain.
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#pygmyhippo #berlinzoo #zooberlin #endangered #conservation #wildlife #animals #babies #cute #mammals #nocturnal #iucn #germany #nature
Hallo Brötchen! Berlin Zoo welcomes baby pygmy hippo
Brötchen (aka bread roll) is already everyone's favorite carb.Margherita Bassi (Popular Science)
💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐝⚖️ Two towns in the Peruvian #Amazon granted native stingless #bees legal #rights – a world first for any #insect, allowing #Indigenous groups to defend them in court.
The movement, led by microbiologist Rosa Vásquez Espinoza, gives legal tools to protect the #pollinators against #deforestation and #pesticides.
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#peru #conservation #law #rainforest #biodiversity #satipo #nauta #climate #climatechange #insects
Stingless bees in Peru become the first insects with legal rights. Will it happen globally?
Two municipalities in the Peruvian Amazon have granted native stingless bees the legal right to exist, thrive and be represented in court.Jamie Forsythe (Mongabay Environmental News)
#News: #Conservation needs a radical rethink towards #indigenous reciprocity: valuing local stories, sharing power, and ensuring environmental protection is rooted in mutual respect 🧐🤝🌲 #HumanRights #IndigenousRights #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives
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Culture and spirit belong at the center of wildlife conservation (commentary)
Conservation is often framed as a scientific or technical challenge — a matter of policies, protected areas and enforcement. But that lens has led conservation astray. Around the world, biodiversity continues to decline.Erik Hoffner (Mongabay Environmental News)
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Good news 📰 #Tigers 🐯🐅🧡 have increased in population in #India 🇮🇳 due to successful #conservation. Extending these protections to areas where #palmoil encroaches on #rainforest #ecosystem is essential. #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives wp.me/pcFhgU-8V5?utm_source=ma…
Protecting India's Tigers Saves One Million Tonnes of CO2
#India's fifty year long Project #Tiger has been a successful conservation project. A new research study finds that protecting tigers and their rainforest home has additional benefits to #carbonemissions, saving 1 million tonnes of CO2 from being spe…Palm Oil Detectives
A wonderful tribute from conservationists around the world, from the team at #WhitleyAwards 🦋
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@nature @ephemeral
#Attenborough #nature #wildlife #conservation #inspiration #SilverbackFilms
Celebrating Sir David Attenborough's 100th Birthday | Whitley Fund for Nature
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.Whitley Awards (YouTube)
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#News: 🌊⚖️ The world's first legally binding #ocean treaty is now in force, protecting #marine life beyond national borders. Now we need the #US and #Australia to ratify it and make it count! 🐋🦈💙 Ocean #Conservation #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social abc.net.au/news/2026-01-18/hig…
World's first legally binding treaty to protect oceans and marine life takes effect
The High Seas Treaty will govern about two-thirds of the planet's oceans including vast areas beyond any country's borders.Gillian Aeria (ABC News)
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#News: 🌊⚖️ The world's first legally binding #ocean treaty is now in force, protecting #marine life beyond national borders. Now we need the #US and #Australia to ratify it and make it count! 🐋🦈💙 Ocean #Conservation #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social abc.net.au/news/2026-01-18/hig…
World's first legally binding treaty to protect oceans and marine life takes effect
The High Seas Treaty will govern about two-thirds of the planet's oceans including vast areas beyond any country's borders.Gillian Aeria (ABC News)
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Good news 📰 #Tigers 🐯🐅🧡 have increased in population in #India 🇮🇳 due to successful #conservation. Extending these protections to areas where #palmoil encroaches on #rainforest #ecosystem is essential. #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-8V5?utm_source=ma…
Protecting India’s Tigers Saves One Million Tonnes of CO2
#India’s fifty year long Project #Tiger has been a successful conservation project. A new research study finds that protecting tigers and their rainforest home has additional benefits to #car…Palm Oil Detectives
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Good news 📰 #Tigers 🐯🐅🧡 have increased in population in #India 🇮🇳 due to successful #conservation. Extending these protections to areas where #palmoil encroaches on #rainforest #ecosystem is essential. #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-8V5?utm_source=ma…
Protecting India’s Tigers Saves One Million Tonnes of CO2
#India’s fifty year long Project #Tiger has been a successful conservation project. A new research study finds that protecting tigers and their rainforest home has additional benefits to #car…Palm Oil Detectives
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#News: #Conservation needs a radical rethink towards #indigenous reciprocity and ensuring environmental protection is rooted in mutual respect, ancestral ties and spiritual meaning 🧐🤝🌲 #HumanRights #IndigenousRights #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social news.mongabay.com/2025/07/cult…
Culture and spirit belong at the center of wildlife conservation (commentary)
Conservation is often framed as a scientific or technical challenge — a matter of policies, protected areas and enforcement. But that lens has led conservation astray. Around the world, biodiversity continues to decline.Erik Hoffner (Mongabay)
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@UQ_News research published in @TheLancetPlanet finds that #pandemics are linked to #ecosystem and #biodiversity declines, with viruses jumping from animals to humans. Urgent #publichealth and #conservation policies needed #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-77u?utm_source=ma…
Protect Nature to Avoid Future Pandemics
Research from University of Queensland and published in The Lancet: Planetary Health finds that the COVID-19 pandemic is linked to the decline of ecosystems and biodiversity, creating a cycle that …Palm Oil Detectives
Brazil’s antitrust regulator, CADE, on Sept. 30 decided to suspend the Amazon soy moratorium from Jan. 1, 2026.
Depending on the probe’s course of action, this could dismantle one of the nation’s most important private sector pacts credited with slowing deforestation of the tropical rainforest for soy plantations.
by Shanna Hanbury
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#news #deforestation #soy #conservation #Amazon #rainforests #Brazil
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Are there any #beetle specialists in the #fediverse? Had this in the moth box this morning. At least 4cm long (measured at 4, possibly 4.2cm) App says King Diving Beetle but they're quite rare round here. More likely Great, but I see gold edge rather than yellow and seems too big. Grateful for any assistance
Edit - location: Hastings, UK
#nature #wildlife #britishwildlife #entomology #insect #cute #garden #summer #conservation #biodiversity #askfedi #alttext
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I'm an evolutionary ecologist with a PhD who studies birds & who writes about all sorts of #science topics (links to these pieces will pop up here).
I think it's my duty to write about politics, such as #HumanRights #progressivism and #ecocide, as well as philosophical topics, such as #AnimalRights & #veganism.
I 'm an avid reader who writes #BookReviews. I'm #multilingual.
I live with a flock of #parrots.
#introduction #SciComm #ornithology #conservation #Wildlife #Animals #GoVegan #books
Four judges and two lawyers in Indonesia have been charged with transacting bribes to issue a favorable ruling for palm oil giants Permata Hijau, Wilmar and Musim Mas in a high-profile corruption case.
Prosecutors allege that the companies funneled up to 60 billion rupiah ($3.57 million) to the judges through intermediaries, avoiding potential fines totaling more than $1 billion.
By Hans Nicholas Jong
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#News #Conservation #Environment #PalmOil
Judges charged in Indonesian bribery scandal after clearing palm oil giants of corruption
JAKARTA — Prosecutors in Indonesia have charged four judges and two lawyers accused of bribery in a recently concluded trial involving palm oil giants Permata Hijau, Wilmar and Musim Mas.Hans Nicholas Jong (Conservation news)
Deforestation ‘roaring back’ despite 140-country vow to end destruction theguardian.com/environment/20… #Treesandforests #Deforestation #Climatecrisis #Biodiversity #Conservation #Environment #Wildlife #Business #Palmoil #Mining #Mining #Food
Deforestation ‘roaring back’ despite 140-country vow to end destruction
Demand for beef, soy, palm oil and nickel hindering efforts to halt demolition by 2030, global report findsDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
@UQ_News research published in @TheLancetPlanet finds that #pandemics are linked to #ecosystem and #biodiversity declines, with viruses jumping from animals to humans. Urgent #publichealth and #conservation policies needed #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives
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Protect Nature to Avoid Future Pandemics
Research from University of Queensland and published in The Lancet: Planetary Health finds that the COVID-19 pandemic is linked to the decline of ecosystems and biodiversity, creating a cycle that …Palm Oil Detectives
A request to the #eDNA #environmentalDNA community. We are working on a project related to eDNA and ethics and looking for feedback from the user community. Please help us and complete this survey. forms.office.com/r/P6R57BAbZq Please pass it along to other users.
If you are a #conservation biologist, #ecology practitioner #molecularecology etc. or have been thinking of using the tool, we would like to hear from you.
In the last few years it is likely that PepsiCo has been using in its production palm oil from deforested land claimed by the Shipibo-Konibo people in eastern Peru, a new investigation has found.
by Andrew Wasley, Aramís Castro, Elisângela Mendonça
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#News #Environment #Conservation #Investigation #IndigenousPeoples #FoodIndustry #PalmOil #LandRights
#Road building almost always precedes #forest loss, and road density is by far the strongest correlate of #deforestation out of 38 #biophysical and #socioeconomic factors.
Findings of the study imply that the most vital #conservation function of protected areas is limiting roads and road-related environmental disruption. They suggest that burgeoning, poorly studied ghost roads are among the gravest of all direct #threats to #tropical forests.
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Ghost roads and the destruction of Asia-Pacific tropical forests - Nature
An effort to map roads in the Asia-Pacific region finds that there are 3.0–6.6 times more roads than other sources suggest, and that unmapped ‘ghost roads’ are a major contributor to tropical forest loss.Nature
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‘Precision fermentation’ start-ups pursue palm oil alternatives
#PalmOil #Deforestation #Orangutan #Conservation
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‘Precision fermentation’ start-ups pursue palm oil alternatives
Lab-based producers think they can make $70bn industry more sustainable — if regulators will let themFreya Pratty (Financial Times)
#Genomic analyses reveal #poaching hotspots, trade routes of most trafficked endangered mammal.
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Genomic analyses reveal poaching hotspots, trade routes of most trafficked endangered mammal
UCLA scientists and colleagues have created a genetic source-to-destination map of the most trafficked mammal in the world—the pangolin—using samples from living white-bellied pangolins and scales from the animals confiscated at illicit markets.David Colgan (Phys.org)
As oil palm plantations encroach on rainforests, wild primates increasingly enter them to forage, where they face the threat of being eaten by feral dogs, killed for raiding crops, or caught by traffickers for the pet trade.
A new study from Peninsular Malaysia finds that exposure to oil plantations also significantly increases the risk of death among infant southern pig-tailed macaques.
by Spoorthy Raman
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#NEws #Conservation #Environment #Wildlife #PalmOil
‘Shocking’ mortality of infant macaques points to dangers of oil palm plantations
For 12 years, primatologist Nadine Ruppert and her colleagues have had one recurring task on their calendar: tagging along with a group of southern pig-tailed macaques in Segari, Peninsular Malaysia, as these primates hop between native rainforests a…Isabel Esterman (Conservation news)
"The Coalition will strip funding from the Environmental Defenders Office if it wins the next federal election, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has promised."
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#EDO #Biodiversity #climate #law #destruction #conservation #ExtinctionCrisis
Dutton commits to defunding Environmental Defenders Office under Coalition government
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says he would end funding to the Environmental Defenders Office if the Coalition wins government at the next federal election, accusing the group of engaging in unethical "lawfare" that frustrates mining and energy proj…Jake Evans (ABC News)
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#NewSpecies!
New freshwater crab from #indonesia just pinched us:
Lepidothelphusa menneri
Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/03DE879…
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#Zootaxa
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arthropods #crustacea #crabs
Lepidothelphusa menneri n. sp. (Crustacea: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae), first record of the genus from Kalimantan, Indonesia
The gecarcinucid freshwater crab genus, Lepidothelphusa Colosi, 1920, is known only from Sarawak in northern Borneo, with six recognised species i.e. Lepidothelphusa cognettii (Nobili, 1903); L. flavochela Grinang & Ng, 2015; L.doi.org
The one thing that wasn’t a shit show in 2023: a huge undercover multinational operation that led to the conviction of dealers who are responsible for half the world’s pangolin trade
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How undercover sting outwitted pangolin traffickers
How charity investigators went undercover to outwit a global wildlife trafficking gang.By Steve Swann (BBC News)
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New species concept just dropped ... no, wait, it actually seems useful. Wayne Maddison & Jeannette Whitton published in @SystBiol's #DiamondOA BSSB so it's free to read and free to authors. Even if the concept itself doesn't take off, I think lots of lectures are going to use the figures and ideas.
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#Systematics #SpeciesConcepts #Evolution #Conservation #OpenAccess
The Species as a Reproductive Community Emerging From the Past
Biologists and philosophers of science have been unable to fully resolve the decades-long controversy as to what kind of unit of living biodiversity should receive the valued label “species”: reproductive communities (among sexual organisms), genealo…ssbbulletin.org
Human actions have led to the deaths of more than 100,000 Bornean orangutans since 1999, mainly for crop protection, bushmeat or the illegal wildlife trade.
For the first time in 15 years, researchers surveyed residents of Kalimantan, the Indonesian section of Borneo, to find out why people kill the great apes and whether conservation projects help protect them.
by Madeline Reinsel
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#News #Conservation #Environment #Wildlife #Orangutans #GreatApes #Animals
Killings of Bornean orangutans could lead to their extinction
Only about 100,000 Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) remain, less than half of their original numbers.Rhett Butler (Conservation news)
#Beef, #soy and #PalmOil products linked to #deforestation still imported into #UK | Deforestation | The Guardian
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#Environment #Biodiversity #Conservation
Beef, soy and palm oil products linked to deforestation still imported into UK
Campaigners accuse government of failing to stick to promises made at Cop26 climate summit in 2021Helena Horton (The Guardian)
Carbon-rich peatlands continue to be cleared and drained in an Indonesian protected wildlife reserve known as the “orangutan capital of the world,” with 26 kilometers (16 miles) of new canals dug so far in 2023, up from 9 km (5.6 mi) in 2022, according to an investigation by the advocacy group Rainforest Action Network (RAN).
by Hans Nicholas Jong
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#News #Conservation #Environment #Indonesia #Deforestation #PalmOil
Deforestation for palm oil continues in Indonesia’s ‘orangutan capital’
JAKARTA — Despite various commitments from global brands and the government to protect Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, home to some of the rarest species on Earth, development of new palm oil plantations and drainage of carbon-rich peatlands continue i…karencoates (Conservation news)
Travelling in #Sabah, it's struck me how many #conservation initiatives are funded by #palmoil companies, who have been a major source of #deforestation in the state. I had also noticed many conservationists working with palm oil plantations, in part because they need to access them to better study the #wildlife that are increasingly found to be roaming there. This threw up questions that led to my latest published story: aljazeera.com/features/2023/6/…
Can plantations value more than profit? Some in Malaysia think so
Plantation owners in the Borneo state of Sabah are setting aside land for conservation but some remain sceptical.Emily Ding (Al Jazeera)
Prosecutors in Indonesia have still not charged the majority of men implicated in a slave-labor scandal at a local official’s oil palm plantation.
The New York Times reported that only 13 of some 60 men, including military and police officers, remain free despite dozens of victims and witnesses accusing them of human trafficking and torture.
by Mongabay.com
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#News #Conservation #Environment #Indonesia #PalmOil
Alleged torturers roam free as Indonesia struggles to bring charges in palm oil slavery case
Only 13 of some 60 men implicated in a human trafficking case in which Indonesian drug users were imprisoned under the guise of a rehabilitation program and forced to work on a palm oil plantation have been charged, with the local district attorney c…Philip Jacobson (Conservation news)
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Takahē once roamed across New Zealand’s South Island, but introduced predators, hunting, habitat destruction & competition for food have taken a heavy toll.
For ~50 years, these flightless #birds were presumed extinct, but they were rediscovered in 1948.
Today there are less than 500 takahē left, but numbers have been increasing through successful conservation measures.
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Inspiring week @FRBiodiv #CESAB for #ACOUCENE kick off meeting - #ecoacoustics #connectivity #citizenScience #conservation #tramblanche
Are you a data savvy post-doc interested in #ecoacoustics, #bioacoustics, #conservation, #spatialModelling check out this amazing #EcologyJob 24 month post-doc fondationbiodiversite.fr/en/ab… DM me for more info. pls RT
Job opportunities - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité
Créée en 2008, la FRB recherche régulièrement de nouveaux collaborateurs. Elle constitue un point de convergence entre la science et la société, autour des défis que doit aujourd’hui relever la recherche sur la biodiversité.Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité
all sneaky @openscience suddenly follows me while I'm reading a paper published in @PLOS i see being fully vaccinated is working
in all seriousness this is a really important paper that everyone should read especially considering #Wisconsin is currently developing its new wolf management plan
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#OpenScience #Conservation #Wildlife #MathematicalModeling
Uncertainty and precaution in hunting wolves twice in a year
When humanity confronts the risk of extinction of species, many people invoke precautions, especially in the face of uncertainty.journals.plos.org