Very happy to present my research in Leipzig at the GlobeColloquium, this Wednesday!

Call PhD Proposals related to Political Ecologies of Conservation, Infectious Animal and Zoonotic Diseases, One Health, and Wildlife Trade #politicalecology #humanenvironmentgeography Please share and pass on to potentially interested people. @pollenetwork.bsky.social @findaphd.bsky.social

Bryant and Katya are both biologists working in remote landscapes altered by logging, trying to understand species. Both look at species that seem adaptable: marmots colonizing clear-cuts, eagles still nesting in logged forests. Their work is hands-on, intimate. springs-rcc.org/eagles-marmo...

First article from my PhD is out! ‘Provincialising Foot-and-Mouth Disease: The Construction of the African Buffalo as Disease Reservoir in Botswana, 1961–1976’, with Andreas Weber and @estherturnhout.bsky.social

Crucially the motion notes that it “does not apply to recreational or tourist hunting” - a practice that exactly targets older animals

www.kth.se/anthropocene... I am looking forward to the new journal #AnthropoceneHistory starting with a double issue to be launched in October 2026 @iceho.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social @austhistassoc.bsky.social @aehhub.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social

Thesis cover in the making… by the wonderful Becky Arrendondo www.instagram.com/stories/becc...

We are very happy to announce our new online lecture series 'Livestock Histories: Regional and Global Perspectives'. The first lecture will be next week, where Steven Van Wolputte will be talking about cattle, microbes and veterinarians as entangled life forms in the history of Northern Namibia.

One thing that has surprised me (in a bad way) as someone new to publishing is how terrible the copy-editing service of scientific journals is. Without tracking the changes they just modify your text, and instead of improving it they introduce errors. You’d think proper copy-editing is the minimum

Although it has a bad headline, this article covers a very interesting issue: the controversial promotion of regenerative grazing by international conservation organizations news.mongabay.com/2025/08/will...

A huge environmental disaster has taken place (perhaps the biggest tailings dam catastrophe ever?) and we are not supposed to know about it www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

As someone whose research touches on pinniped health, this is really concerning...

“both the human and slime mould cases illustrate how memory can become decoupled from individual learning, instead becoming accessible to others through environmental structures.” Interesting essay on what might be called ‘more-than-human mnemonic infrastructures’

'Transforming governance through non-human animal representation': an extremely interesting PhD position at Radboud University in the Netherlands. www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

We're on a roll and have another research seminar coming up in a couple of days - Larissa Fleischmann will share her research on the 'Postcolonial Borders of Animal Health: Veterinary Fencing in Germany and Namibia'. Register below :)

In case you missed these: some great papers appeared in the last few days that address the relation between monetary wealth and environmental degradation/protection 🧵👇

New post on our Rewilding Blog! In this one, Pierre du Plessis and I explore Botswana and its foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) 'red zone' as two layers of a European shadow ecology: rewilding.de/shadows-with...

New post on our Rewilding Blog! In this one, Pierre du Plessis and I explore Botswana and its foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) 'red zone' as two layers of a European shadow ecology: rewilding.de/shadows-with...

This one has been a long time coming, but it’s finally here: my first academic paper as first author. @annetpauwelussen.bsky.social, @estherturnhout.bsky.social and I explore how conservation-tourism partnerships are neither win-win nor win-lose situations: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New book! Bernard C. Moore & I explore how African farmers in Namibia navigated colonialism & apartheid to remain on their ancestral land. Now, they face new threats —from billionaires, conservationists & carbon financiers. Download free: brill.com/display/titl...! #envhist #conservation #envhum

This one has been a long time coming, but it’s finally here: my first academic paper as first author. @annetpauwelussen.bsky.social, @estherturnhout.bsky.social and I explore how conservation-tourism partnerships are neither win-win nor win-lose situations: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Cool photo project on animals and infrastructure. I find especially the photo series of the ecoducts beautiful marinacaneve.com/On-the-groun...

This looks like a really cool new book with an amazing collection of five (!) chapters on human-tick relations in Finland. More than enough to delve into this weekend 😊 brill.com/display/titl...

As Val Plumwood argued, place-based environmental action often overlooks the fact that we live in a connected world, where ecologies and economies in the Global North are supported by ‘shadow places’ in the Global South.

Fuck you, @nature.org.

Very cool new environmental anthropology project by Diego Menestrey to start here at the University of Cologne. On the political ecology of bush encroachment in Namibia gssc.uni-koeln.de/forschung-1/...

“radical rewilding and conventional agriculture are so often starkly contrasted across an almost Cartesian divide, yet here we find a practice that segues organically into both.” Interesting piece on ‘agricultural rewilding’👇

Our special issue on (the #anthropology of) #Restoration in Environment and Society is out: a diverse collection of #review articles covering various regions, habitats and species. With Jessica Vandenberg.

Really nice documentary about coexistence with rats, including some refreshing perspectives on their role in disease transmission: youtu.be/ghaiiiGmAsY?...

Nearly all the media reports on today’s foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in Germany mention the threat of illegal import of animal products from FMD endemic countries. But this ignores how Europe has deliberately chosen to make itself vulnerable to the disease by having a non-vaccination policy

Outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in water buffalo in Brandenburg, Germany www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

Backbreeding and genetic engineering cannot perfectly recreate extinct species but they can be valuable efforts nevertheless e360.yale.edu/features/de-...

As we close out our 25th anniversary year, we’re thrilled to announce a $25,000 matching pledge from a long-standing donor. Until Dec. 31st, every dollar you donate will be doubled, fueling our journalism for 2025 and beyond. Support independent journalism today: donorbox.org/2024eoy-mong...!

Good overview of what we know about the evolution of bird flu and its devastating impacts so far: www.bbc.com/future/artic...

And finally, the @ipbes.bsky.social #TransformativeChange assessment has been approved! Happy and proud of what we have achieved. Hope that this will change the narrative of #Biodiversity #Conservation towards #justice and addressing the political-economic root causes of nature’s decline

Please join us coming Monday (02 Dec) as we delve into the topic of wildlife-livestock interfaces in northern Botswana. The full programme and Zoom link can be found here: rewilding.de/news/upcomin...

This summer my ERC colleagues Paula Alexiou, Julia Brekl, Emilie Köhler and I published an article in which we asked how we can politicise multispecies studies in order to account for the injustices in Southern Africa's postcolonial conservation landscapes www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

“What is called the Anthropocene is just the recognition of the artificiality of the natural—like Burgundy itself, the land, and the wine.” Great piece on Bruno Latour’s background and thinking (philosophical and religious; natural and artificial) www.jhiblog.org/2024/10/28/a...

Had some great presentations and discussions on rewilding, wildlife disease and conflict at the Pathways conference this week. Really enjoyed the exchange of insights on foot-and-mouth disease, african swine fever, trypanosomiasis and more!

Vaccinating badgers more effective than culls in stopping bovine TB, study finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

For my research I made a short film about one of Botswana's 'buffalo fences'. It can be watched on our project website here: rewilding.de/short-film-t...