Paul Ehlich, Ecologist - Mongabay obituary 🌍 news.mongabay.com/2026/03/paul...

With the new #UnitedNations #HighSeasTreaty, German scientists investigate how new international #MarineProtectedAreas respond to #ClimateChange 🌍 www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #AAAS #MPAs #MarineEcology #Climate

International #climatelaw is currently better at managing political expectations than confronting material dangers The legal architecture must evolve from a system of voluntary, incremental steps to one that addresses the lived reality of #EcologicalBreakdown 🌍 opiniojuris.org/2026/03/17/i...

New paper looks into: 🔹 #GreenBonds, credits, #debt-for-nature swaps 🔹 Rwanda’s innovative blended finance model 🔹 Tackling #greenwashing & protecting #Indigenous rights #BiodiversityFinance must prioritize ecological integrity & equity link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/... #BiodiversityFinance 🌍

New study on the Gola-REDD+ initiative in #SierraLeone shows that #carbonfinance can help boost #biodiversity too 🌍 Use of #Bioacoustics and #DNAmetabarcoding found that REDD+ funded areas outperformed both community lands and non-funded protected areas 🧵 Downloadable paper: shorturl.at/5BiQn

Is your #university campus aiming to be #NaturePositive by 2030? This new paper looking at #carbonreduction initiatives and #biodiversity actions may well help 🌍 Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.1... (downloadable paper) #ClimateAction #BiodiversityAction #NatureBasedSolutions #NbS

“Earth has surpassed its #sustainable human #CarryingCapacity” 🌍 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... #HumanPopulation #Ecology #SustainableDevelopment

New research from the #KochiCoast shows how combining hyperspectral imaging with #RandomForest models creates a "transferable framework" for protecting these vital #ecosystems 🌍 #BlueCarbon #Sustainability #EcoInformatics #RemoteSensing #MachineLearning #GIS www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#WetlandRestoration falls either into #CarbonSequestration or #biodiversity protection, but why not both? This new review of 106 studies shows missing "synergy” sweet spot - while plants generally boost #CarbonStorage, #microbes are the real workers 🌍 PDF download: shorturl.at/9n6Bz #Climate

Long-term evidence from Indian 🇮🇳 dam construction to operation shows devastating impacts to #fish diversity 🌍 shorturl.at/ZBucN (unedited) #Freshwater #AquaticEcology #Biodiversity #Dams

#BiodiversityLoss and Global Stock Returns €$¥ 🌍 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... (Abstract only unless you have access) #Investments #Stocks #Finance

Puzzled by how #nature could collapse and take you with it? A primer on #BiodiversityLoss here ⬇️ 🌍 www.natureworldnews.com/articles/727...

UNEP-WCMC share five ways to achieve transformational change to help #nature: 1️⃣ Rebalance power and accountability 2️⃣ Redefine prosperity through well-being and sufficiency 3️⃣ Protect and expand seed diversity 🌍 Cont… 🧵 www.unep-wcmc.org/en/news/beha... #BiodivetsityLoss #BiodiversityPolicy

31,000 tree species worldwide analysed: ➡️forests will become increasingly dominated by fast-growing #tree species ➡️slower-growing more specialized species at risk of disappearing ➡️homogenization of #forests will have severe impact on tropical and subtropical regions 🌍 www.creaf.cat/en/articles/...

#FreshwaterEcosystems 💦 are facing a "perfect storm" of pollutants from #roadsalt and #microplastics to #pharmaceuticals Current efforts are not enough, a systemic step-change: better monitoring, stricter regulation, and #Nature-basedSolutions are needed 🌍 cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

‘What is the evidence on indirect drivers of #BiodiversityLoss worldwide?’ This paper attempts to answer the question… 🌍 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #Biodiversity #Ecology

The memories of #IndigenousPeoples reveal shift in #bird #biology and #ecology 🌍 news.mongabay.com/2026/03/bird... #Birds #Ornitholgy #Conservation #Mongabay

Biodiversity Council Australia celebrates women’s roles in #biodiversity and #conservation 🌍 biodiversitycouncil.org.au/news/the-wom... #InternationalWomensDay

Team of academics from India 🇮🇳 present an overview of #Nature-basedSolutions for #biodiversity #conservation 🌍 www.atlantis-press.com/article/1260... #NbS #NaturePositive

#Amazonia #Insects in trouble as #heatstress alarms scientists 🌍 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #Entomology #Invertebrates #Climate #BiodiversityLoss

How do #protectedareas in #Africa become #insurgent hotspots? 🌍 Research from Benin’s National Park W suggests it’s not just about "refuges" or "grievances" It’s about how #parkmanagement, even when trying to be inclusive, creates friction over land and power www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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#30×30 Goal: How Much Will It Cost #LatinAmerica and the #Caribbean (LAC) to Achieve It? This new IDB policy brief estimates LAC can reach 30x30 goal by investing under 0.2% of GDP with tailored financing strategies 🌍 www.iadb.org/en/blog/natu... #Rewilding #Rewild #EcologyRestoration

As #farming becomes more tech-driven (sensors, #drones, #IoT, #AI, automation and #dataanalytics), upside in #sustainability may occur with benefits to #biodiversity from reduced inputs but this argument should not be taken for granted… 🌍 www.nature.com/articles/s44... #Agriculture

📊 Thomas Pape et al. introduce a set of indicators to assess species list quality, a tool to improve biodiversity data and its use in research and conservation 🌍🧬  👉 doi.org/10.1093/bios... 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🧪🌳🐝 Where to study degrees focusing on plants in UK and Ireland? Teams in #BUC2026 made single image of BSc/Masters/PhD opportunities at their 32 institutions. Great to get so much information about plant degrees together. (Also plants at some other places without a team this year!)

What’s happening in the #Cerrado? 🌎 Learn about the multifaceted threats facing South America’s second-largest Ecodomain as covered by Monica Piccinini @monicapiccinini.bsky.social in @theecologist.org ⤵️ theecologist.org/2026/feb/12/...

Heartbreaking is right. Waiting to see the impact on the Burhou colony off Alderney and Jersey's last 3? breeding pairs. @alderneywt.bsky.social 🇯🇪🇬🇬🧪🌎 #jersey #alderney #channelislands #seabirds #birds

This is becoming a pervasive issue, for example involving the sidelining of actual experts and the heaping of pressure on regulatory bodies to move forward with dubious (re)introductions. A quick ecology 101 for ‘conservation gurus’. Thread 🌍🦗🦋🪶🦬🧪1/

Why so many mangrove restoration projects fail news.mongabay.com/short-articl... 🧪 🦑 🌍️

Southern elephant seals recover in Southern Africa, but global picture is mixed news.mongabay.com/2026/02/sout... 🦑 🧪 🌍️

New data shows that planned #dams in the #GlobalSouth could push critically #endangeredfish to the brink #Sustainable planning is needed that balances #energy goals with #ecosystemhealth 🌍 Draft paper: www.nature.com/articles/s43... #Biodiversity #Hydropower #BiodiversityLoss

Are we underestimating the #biodiversity crisis? 🌍 This new meta-analysis shows many "bending the curve" scenarios miss a key factor: #ClimateChange To truly reverse loss, need ambitious cross-sector action from what we eat to how we protect #nature Full paper: www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Is it time 🕰️ for a change? Linear timelines cut us off from past and future requiring a center point (the present) and mostly focused on us humans Non-linear time, spiralling🌀time could help us to address our #climate / #ecological crises in new ways… 🌍 Link: theconversation.com/how-indigeno...

In this work led by Josh Wilson, we labelled 4824 drone-based images containing 49990 birds from 101 species and trained a bird detection and ID model. The model achieved precision = 0.91 for detection & 0.65 for species/age/sex classification. zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

How are #herbaceousplants mapped at scale in dammed #rivers? The authors of this paper present an automated framework integrating quadrat surveys with #UAV #multispectralsensing achieving a 93.1% accuracy 🌍 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #RemoteSensing #UAV #EcoTech

Introducing #BiOS (Biodiversity Observatory System): an #open-source, FAIR-aligned stack designed to harmonise multi-typology data, from #genetics to #geospatial maps via a modular API and intuitive web interface! 🌍 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #MetaData #Biodiversity #PostgreSQL #PostGIS #GIS

You can model every company on Earth in exquisite detail. But economics doesn’t fail because it lacks complexity. It fails because it assumes growth inside a finite system is negotiable.

London School of Economics discusses how #China is implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global #Biodiversity Framework 🌍 www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst... #30x30 #SDGs #SustainableDevelopment #Rewilding

What will #climatechange do to mutual ecological relationships? The Editor of Nature introduces the authors who may help explain 🌍 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #EcologicalRelationships #Mutualisms #symbiotic #ecosystems #Editorial

The 2025 Hinrich-IMD #Sustainable Trade Index has been launched on Visual Capitalist maps ranking Asia-Pacific countries on #ecological #consumption footprint 🌍 www.hinrichfoundation.com/research/inf... #Sustainability #Impact #SDGs #ESG

New research from #Newfoundland shows that adding #eDNA to acoustic and video seafloor maps significantly improves understanding of #biodiversity, especially for sessile species 🌍 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... #MarineEcology

Well, this is interesting - results from this paper show #PES restored #forests are successfully sounding like mature forest again! Research in #CostaRica 🇨🇷 used #ecoacoustics at 119 sites 🌍 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

#Ecosystemcollapse comes into focus as #security implications become clear 🌍 news.mongabay.com/2026/02/tipp... #Geopolitics #TippingPoints #BiodiversityLoss

@arcgispro.bsky.social storyboards Gabon’s 🇬🇦 #mangroves and impacts from #ClimateChange but documents issues from #urbanization and #OilandGas sector impacts 🌍 storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/dfd7... #CoastalEcology #Carbon #Sequestration #GIS #Mapping

With #SustainabilityReporting from 2027, Japanese 🇯🇵 Corporates need to show their #biodiversity programs are working. This article looks at five perspectives which could help 🌍 www.dentsu.co.jp/en/showcase/... #ESG #BiodiversityAction

#Hydropower is making a comeback so good to see this long-term study and large-scale dataset made available from #Portugal 🇵🇹 🌍 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #FreshwaterEcology #Aquatics #Dams #Impacts #BiodiversityMonitoring

#Nature Editorial looks at the gaping evidence gap in #biodiversity #conservation. With the @ipbes.net conference on in Manchester, UK there’s an opportunity to fix the problem 🌍 www.nature.com/articles/d41... #ConservationEvidence #ConservationAction #BiodiversityLoss ##Ecology

A study looking at #butterfly communities in forest edges and farmlands of Taita Hills, #Kenya yielded 144 species underline the importance of these habitats 🌍 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Lepidoptera #Entemology #Insects #Africa #AgroEcology

Looking at #Biodiversity #DigitalTwins that utilise Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) principles to help transform research and decision-making 🌍 www.nature.com/articles/s44... #BiodiversityDigitalTwin #BiodiversityAction #Ecosystems