📰 Hoy salgo el semanal de @elpais.com “Sean cuales sean las causas del declive de la anguila, la cuestión es si existe algún nivel de pesquería que sea sostenible y la respuesta es que no” !Acercaos al kiosko! @azti.bsky.social @elpaiscyt.bsky.social shorturl.at/BykyC

Tras lo ocurrido esta semana, he querido hacer un repaso a las advertencias de la comunidad científica sobre el declive de la anguila. Desde los 80 con los primeros avisos, y desde 1999 con recomendaciones claras de frenar su pesca.

Hola, @miteco.gob.es Una duda ¿De dónde sale la necesidad de acatar las decisiones de la Comisión Estatal sobre listados de protección? La ley 42/2007 define la Comisión como órgano consultivo ¿Qué impide legalmente a MITECO ejercer su competencia sobre el contenido de lespre y catálogo?

El negacionismo científico que lleva a no proteger la anguila acaba con un antivacumas desquiciado de ministro de sanidad. Y la cosa no tiene ninguna gracia España seguirá pescando anguilas hasta su extinción @es.theconversation.com @ebdonana.bsky.social theconversation.com/espana-segui...

Fracasa el nuevo intento de prohibir la pesca de la anguila y la angula ante la negativa de las comunidades autónomas, que quieren MÁS estudios e informes. climatica.coop/fracasa-nuev...

@estidiaz.bsky.social, una de las mayores experta del mundo en la anguila y presidenta del grupo de trabajo que aconseja a la Comisión Europea: «¿Existe hoy en día una pesquería sostenible de la anguila? La respuesta es que no» Entrevista en @climatica.coop. climatica.coop/estibaliz-di...

🏅🎓 La @urv.cat ha concedit els premis extraordinaris de doctorat, reconeixen les tesis doctorals amb el més alt nivell de qualitat. ✨ Entre les tesis guardonades hi ha la recerca de la Dra. Mònica Pons, centrada en el tràfic de l’anguila europea des d’una perspectiva de criminologia verda.

Movimiento importantísimo de @miteco.gob.es Gracias Ánimo A ver si, por fin y de una vez, podemos proteger a la anguila Para que no haya confusión: MITECO ya tiene el dictamen (claro, demoledor) del comité científico. NO es un asunto que trate solo con gentes de las cocinas

Error Consumir o no una especie que se está extinguiendo no debe depender de las conciencias. Hay que prohibir Mientras no se haga, quienes no tenemos capacidad de decidir apelaremos a las conciencias. Pero las administraciones deben actuar y cambiar cosas www.elcorreo.com/bizkaia/vice...

📣 3 post doc roles on GreenFrontier @erc.europa.eu project - fantastic opportunities to work on an exciting project on socio-ecological relations in Italy, Spain & Poland. And best of all, a chance to work with @georgeiorda.bsky.social as team lead #PoliticalEcology #Conservation ⬇️

Details on the position with Spanish are here www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...

🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers! Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025 Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills! Please share widely!

📣Publication alert! “Plastic waste trafficking in Spain: examining the actors, routes, and crimes involved” Available OA here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I am thilled I got to contribute to this story! A must read by @alexandratalty.bsky.social !!

🍂 Just like autumn, the new issue of the GREEN Working Group newsletter has arrived! 🍁 This edition is packed with updates and insights! Whether you're deep into #greencriminology or just curious about the latest developments, this issue has something for you. 🔗 www.uu.nl/en/research/...

Happy to share that a chapter I wrote with Avi Brisman is out! Here we challenge the conventional North-South narrative in wildlife trafficking research by employing the idea of “internal Souths” within affluent countries. Read the full chapter here: link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

Have they not seen Attenborough’s latest documentary?? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Working on a report on aquaculture, focused on salmon farming. Study frames this, rightly, as "food crime", which reveals "how practices that are presented as ‘sustainable’ or ‘green’ can entail systemic environmental & social injustices" @theferret.scot link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Really important article examining #harms from @monicapons.bsky.social & @guillemrubio.bsky.social comparing #AtlanticSalmon & #EuropeanEel in #Aquaculture. The narrative of ecological sustainability & reduced pressure on ‘wild’ fish needs a fundamental rethink #PoliticalEcology #GreenCriminology ⬇️

Love the abstract of this paper. Congratulations, Monica!

"The Paradox of Saving Fish by Eating Them: Food Crime at the Intersection of Green Criminology and Political Ecology" is out! I’m thrilled I got to work with the lovely @guillemrubio.bsky.social—I genuinely enjoyed and had fun working on the manuscript together 🧡 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

1/ 📄New paper! Alison Hutchinson @georgeiorda.bsky.social Teresa Lappe-Osthege & myself have developed a new harms-based #PoliticalEcology as a way of understanding the #WildlifeTrade published in @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social ⬇️ beastlybusiness.org/2025/07/23/n...

Join us in Athens for this year’s GREEN Working Group Pre-ESC event "Environmental crime, policing & social control"🌎

Excellent piece on #GlassEel trade in @mongabay.com - and as ever @monicapons.bsky.social is absolutely spot on. Eel consumption always relies on wild caught fish, & the valuable trade attracts criminal networks #IWT #WildlifeTrade #EuropeanEel #EnvironmentalCrime

I recently contributed to a Mongabay article on the illegal glass eel trade—a critical issue for environmental crime research. Thank you, Keith Anthony Fabro, for giving me the chance to share insights on this topic and engaging with my work. 📖 Read it here:  news.mongabay.com/2025/06/glas...

I've just watched Attenborough's Oceans film. It's excellent. But my overwhelming feeling is "at last!" I've been waiting, and fruitlessly lobbying, for a film like this for 40 years. But the institutional cowardice of the broadcasters has stymied such projects, until now.

My first paper from my PhD is out! In it, I argue that viewing pigs as both resources (that feed) and as more-than-resources (to be fed) is crucial for understanding how nonhuman animals make nations and how, in turn, nations make nonhuman animals. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Norway rules out fish farm ban despite ‘existential threat’ to wild salmon www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Marc Balcells, criminólogo: “Los ladrones de tumbas trabajan y por la noche van a excavar” www.lavanguardia.com/vida/2025030...

Exciting news! I’ve been awarded the Extraordinary PhD Award by URV for my thesis on “Wildlife trafficking, speciesism & the European eel”. Grateful to my mentors, colleagues & loved ones for the support! Excited to continue researching marine wildlife harm at UiB! 🐋✨

Excited to contribute to The Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Crime, with an entry on IUU Fishing! 🌊 A huge thanks to the editor, Prof. Rob White, for leading this important project. I’m thrilled to be part of this work and to share the space with amazing senior and early-career scholars.

Excited to start my MSCA #SEAS Postdoctoral Fellowship at the @unibergen.bsky.social! Looking forward to new research and collaborations in this inspiring environment!

Sweet moment of celebration at @w-u-r.bsky.social as both my dear friend Emmanuel Adu-Ampong and I are launching our #ERC Starting Grant projects! Keep an eye out for #GreenFrontier & #Frictions research!

I'm thrilled to share that the paper I coauthored with the brilliant Dr Gohar Petrossian is now available in Marine Policy! Read the full paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X24005694

Update from the Beastly Business project: A brand new paper on demand for #EuropeanEel as a driver of declines. A fantastic read by Ali Hutchinson, @monicapons.bsky.social & Aitor Ibanez Alonso beastlybusiness.org/2024/12/10/n...

Yesterday I had the pleasure of going back to the #ArrandeMar program of Tarragona Radio to talk about my research on the illegal trade in European eel. Many thanks to Joan Ramón Mendo and Marina Perez for inviting me! I had a great time!

welcome old Twitter friends and new Bluesky friends 😀 This is a chance for me to shamelessly promote the Beastly Business project, which brings together #PoliticalEcology & #GreenCriminology to examine #IWT in European species. beastlybusiness.org

New book chapter now out. Co-authored with Angus Nurse, we argue, from a nonhuman #animalvictimology perspective, that horseracing is a form of regulated violence. It is in Hunnicutt, @richardtwine.bsky.social & Mentor: Violence in the Animal Industrial Complex tinyurl.com/4s6xm9af #criminology

BSC Green #Criminology Network webinar series. Next event on Wed 27 November 13:00-14:00 GMT. Stacy Banwell will be presenting an intersectional analysis of the relationship between #climate change and atrocity crimes. Register for free www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/british-so...