For years, experts have warned that nature loss would become a security threat. Now a national security assessment confirms it: biodiversity collapse risks food shortages, economic instability and global disorder. Nature underpins our global safety. So why is UK Government failing to protect it?

🚨We're seeking information on Globally Threatened Birds!🚨 We collate up-to-date information used to evaluate the classification of each bird species on the IUCN Red List.🦜 Our team have opened discussions for 90 species until 25 January.🗺️ Contribute here👉 forums.birdlife.org/red-list-cha...

New paper out! 🐦📊 We realease AVONICHE, a global dataset with detailed information on the proportional use of 32 foraging niches, combining dietary categories with the behaviours and substrates used to access resources. Openly access the paper and data in GEB: doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

I’m excited for #BES2025 in Edinburgh next week. My talk on @keybiodiversity.bsky.social is on Wednesday. Come and say hi if you want to discuss birds, research, or what I should do when I finish my PhD at @sheffielduni.bsky.social in a few months!

🦜 New PhD project with @ACCE_DTP and project partners Macaw Recovery Network and Longleat — using bioacoustics data to help conserve one of the Neotropics’ most charismatic parrots, the Critically Endangered Great Green Macaw. Find out more about ACCE+ DLA and how to apply 👉 accedtp.ac.uk

🚨The European Parliament just rejected the #Forest Monitoring Law 🚨 The proposal was a much-needed piece of legislation, essential to better understanding the state of Europe’s forests and how best to tackle their current breakdown. Our reaction 👇

Check out the new Key Biodiversity Areas website at www.keybiodiversityareas.org. Helpful guidance on what KBAs are, how they are being used by governments & other end-users, how to get involved, unprecedented access to the full dataset etc. @keybiodiversity.bsky.social @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today. Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

New on global conservation science: Most bird species overlap with Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs), yet gaps remain, especially for northern and temperate species. Expanding KBA coverage could better safeguard global avian diversity. Lansley et al. in Conservation Biology doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

This complete shambles is a useful reminder of why companies who say "Don't worry about the carbon, we're planting trees for that" should be treated with scepticism.

Celebrating the life of a conservation legend. 🕊️ Today, we reflect on the extraordinary life of Dame Jane Goodall (1934 - 2025). Jane was a world-renowned expert on chimpanzees and a passionate advocate for community-led conservation action. 🌿 Read more here: www.birdlife.org/news/2025/10...

Conservation will have its greatest impact if we target it at sites which have global significance. A study just out shows we are missing half of these sites on average in most countries. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... All countries need to update their Key Biodiversity Area networks

Celebrating #WorldRiversDay !💧 Rivers not only provide fresh water but also serve as rich habitats for countless species and sustain the livelihoods of millions of people worldwide.🦆 Read more about river @keybiodiversity.bsky.social in our article here👉 www.birdlife.org/news/2025/09...

This is a game changer for marine conservation. Now we need to build on the momentum and designate high seas marine protected areas to conserve Key Biodiversity Areas @keybiodiversity.bsky.social

As humans face record-breaking heatwaves, our new research led by Max Kotz shows intensified heat extremes caused a 25–38% decline in the level of abundance of tropical birds since 1950. These impacts often exceed those of average temperature rise and direct human pressures. rdcu.be/eAlQh

I had a great time in Brisbane at @iccb2025.bsky.social presenting my first and second PhD chapters. I was even a finalist for best presentation at the conference! I saw so many old friends, met great new people, and heard so much cool science. #ICCB2025

Here's a short video (in English) all about my two years of research on wild pollinators in France's newest national park! We're talking protected areas, forest networks, roadsides and legislation. Hope you enjoy! 🐝

In most of the world day-to-day weather variations are still much larger than long-term global warming. As a result, both daily record highs and daily record lows remain common. However as the world warms, new daily record highs consistently far outnumber new daily record lows. 🧪

Flamingos actively generate miniature underwater whirlpools to trap and capture live prey, according to new research:

New paper reviewing the world's 10,443 Critically Endangered species: their status, distribution threats and the actions needed for their recovery www.nature.com/articles/s44...

We've just launched AviList! - the new unified global taxonomic checklist for the world's birds, developed through the Working Group on Avian Classification, including BirdLife, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, IOC and others @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.avilist.org

I'm really excited for #ICCB2025 I am presenting a talk: 'How effectively do Key Biodiversity Areas represent global avian diversity?' Monday 16th, 11:45, Mezzanine Level Meeting Room M2. Also presenting a poster tropical moist forests in KBAs. Wednesday 18th, 16:15, Great Hall. See you there!

Having had time to digest the new BNG consultation, I am *astounded* at the proposed changes to the small sites metric (SSM). If the changes are implemented, the SSM could apply to developments up to 49 dwellings/1ha - affecting a lot of developments! 1/ consult.defra.gov.uk/defra-biodiv...

The KBA identification process is highly inclusive, consultative, and nationally driven. National Coordination Groups, and anyone with appropriate data, may propose a site as a KBA. Discover more about the proposing process here 🌐 bit.ly/4dhash3

Today is International Day for Biological Diversity!🐦🌍 Let us renew our commitment to identifying, safeguarding and restoring Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) worldwide. Let’s live in harmony with nature.🌿 Find out more👉 datazone.birdlife.org/about-our-sc... @keybiodiversity.bsky.social

Who else is presenting at #ICCB2025 ? So many exciting talks and posters in the program! Repost this slide and let us know when / where to find you!

Pleased to contribute some long(ish..) term data from Honduras as part of BioTIME 2.0: a terrific dataset ripe for all sorts of questions! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Also another wake up call as to the massive biological data gaps across equatorial Africa (and the tropics in general)..

The Online Public Scientific Program Schedule for ICCB 2025 is now live! The schedule features more than 200 sessions, including symposia, oral and speed sessions, and lunchtime workshops. #ICCB2025 @iccb2025.bsky.social www.xcdsystem.com/iccb/program...

Unpick the definitions of invasive species in this blog from BTO’s Head and Principal Ecologist David Noble. Have a read ➡️ www.bto.org/community/bl... #InvasiveSpeciesWeek

New study finds where birds are declining most. High trend resolution data reveals complexity of bird population changes. “This is the first time we’ve had fine-scale information on population changes across such broad spatial extents and across entire ranges of species,” said Dr. Amanda Rodewald.

Can you find the ringed plover nest in this picture from @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social in Norfolk? 🦉

🚨 #Cormorant Killing Proposed! Today, EIFAAC (part of FAO) dropped its draft European Cormorant “Management” Plan, and it’s grim. What’s in it? Coordinated culling and oiling are among the suggested measures. Random targets. No goal. No clear metrics. Just killing.

In Science, researchers estimate that as many as 1.4 billion people live in areas with soil dangerously polluted by heavy metals like arsenic and lead. The results reveal a global risk, but also a previously unrecognized high-risk, metal-enriched zone in low-latitude Eurasia. scim.ag/42DHZwP

Our new research shows that forest recovery from tree mortality has slowed in recent decades. This reduction is primarily associated with rising temperatures and increased water scarcity. Recovery of forest canopy water content lags behind that of vegetation greenness www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/ 🧵Bird songs and calls are an important way that people experience the natural world. They’re also one of the key means of surveying bird populations. In this #BOU2025 talk I will review @btobirds.bsky.social research to explore opportunities and challenges of #bioacoustics in #ornithology

I’m excited to be in Cambridge for the SCCS Conference this week!

I took this photo less than 10 years after the deer fence behind was erected. Before it went up, the land behind was just grass, exactly like the foreground where he sheep are. *Nothing* was planted here. "It's not rocket science" is an understatement. 🌍

Two fully-funded PhD scholarships @BangorUni in conservation social science. Deadline 5th May. If you have conservation scientists, geographers, economists, sociologists in your network do share. Details in thread below (1/3) www.bangor.ac.uk/conservation...

Very excited to finally say it's online!! New paper in @society4conbio.bsky.social Conservation Biology on how we can use #MotusWTS automated VHF across Europe to understand more about flyways and our declining migratory species. We hope this will push more collaboration across the continent!

🌎 The Global Standard for the Identification of KBAs (IUCN, 2016) is a comprehensive framework to identify sites that significantly contribute to the global persistence of biodiversity. Discover more and download the KBA Standard for free here 🌐 portals.iucn.org/library/node...

Undergraduate studying ecology or conservation? Lecturer teaching these subjects? Here is a playlist of 27 three minute videos, each explaining a fundamental concept. Hope it is useful. Say if any gaps you would like filled youtube.com/playlist?lis...

*Positive news* Despite global declines in biodiversity, we find conservation has driven improvements in >100 species. This suggests with greater resource allocation to more species, conservation can halt and reverse biodiversity loss! First PhD paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”

Great news for the Critically Endangered African Penguin! 🐧 South Africa has agreed to establish no-fishing zones around six major breeding colonies, a huge victory thanks to the relentless efforts of our National Partner @birdlifesa.bsky.social 🌍💙 Read more: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hi there, my student is making a survey about the use of R packages in Ecology, could you please spend two mins on filling it 🥹 Very appreciated! And if you could spread it further (RT), that would be just awesome. ❤️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It's clear that Trump's policies seek to shut down what remains of democracy in the US. It seems highly likely that they will also cause economic collapse. firstbranchforecast.substack.com/p/dethroning...

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🌎