What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

Oh the horrible tragedy of an 82 year-old man who is forced to face the reality that his career is slowing down... Wtf!? Just retire and play Bridge.

A cluster of mass vulture poisonings in May and June 2025 has drawn attention to an ongoing problem in the transfrontier conservation area that straddles South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

In 4x games like Civ, before modern communication, you as the civilizations leader shouldn't actually have knowledge of any land or discoveries that your expeditions find until and unless they return from that expedition. I wonder if that's possible to implement somehow. It's tricky.

Robert Redford dies at 89. Made me think of my mom. He was always my mom's actor crush. 🥲 And I loved a lot of his movies too. Sneakers was awesome.

I don't understand why Hong Kong closes off escalators when they're turned off for energy saving. Just let them be regular stairs?

NEW: A pioneering study has applied AI for the first time to count the Great Wildebeest Migration from satellite images. Unexpectedly, the results showed fewer than 600,000 individual wildebeest – less than half the previous estimate of 1.3 million animals.

Today, in a move that has alarmed conservationists, the Department of the Interior unveiled a proposal to rescind the Bureau of Land Management’s Public Lands Rule—effectively removing conservation as an equal priority in public-land management. #publiclands #BLM #protectpubliclands #parkchat

A soaring number of flat-earthers would not increase the likelihood of Earth being flat. It just means we have an idiot problem.

Of all the unqualified extremists Donald Trump has appointed to his cabinet, RFK Jr., as of now, poses the most direct threat to the nation.

From the tense exchanges during the hearing, it was apparent that senators from both parties have realized that RFK Jr. is living in a world defined by activists who crusade against vaccines and, for that matter, the entire enterprise of public health science.

Five antidotes to over-tourism in Africa 1. Take the road less travelled 2. Ask the right questions of tour operators 3. Talk to your guide 4. Include over-tourism issues in your ratings 5. Make your footprint count

Call to Activism - Joe Gallina “Holy shit. Lisa Kurdrow did an impression of every Republican and it’s absolutely perfect. This needs to go viral.”

The adjectives news outlets use about people sometimes... Why tf is it red shirt man chokes bald man and not red shirt man chokes black shirt man? Or just man chokes man? How is balding or shirt colour relevant for anything? Not only did he get choked, you have to rub it in that he's bald too?

While UK politicians rage against "trophy hunting" abroad, here is something else (apart from their own trophy hunting of deer) that they have no problem with: Trophy C&R of bluefin tuna. The fishing equivalent of tiring out a deer, shooting it in the leg, and letting it go to be shot again later.

"The safari industry’s ‘conservation-washing’ is a growing problem (commentary)"

"RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted — the journal said no In a rare move for a US public official, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr called for a Danish paper finding no link between aluminium in vaccines and disease to be retracted."

The plot thickens! I just found what seems to be the original version of the paper. It wasn’t just AI generated, it was plagiarised. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out the graphical abstract for a paper recently published in Ecological Modelling. I have papers published in Ecological Modelling. Never again, I guess.

🐆 Do you work in #snowleopardconservation? ✨ Apply yourself or nominate someone else for the @nabu.de #SnowLeopard Award! 🏆 More info: www.en.nabu.de/topics/species/prize.html Apply before: 14th of September 2025 #SnowLeopardAward @nabu.de

The largest insects in the world, Africa’s Goliath beetles, are up against a much bigger behemoth—the cocoa industry. Indiscriminate deforestation for cocoa in West Africa is wiping out their home range, as well as their populations. Cartoon by Rohan Chakravarty:

A key to Namibia's wildlife recovery is the model of community-based natural resource management. But a recent 11-year dry spell has tested the resilience of the model and the people and natural systems that depend on it.

While writing something about fair chase hunting and animal welfare, I found these pretty interesting survey results. Interesting because the public seems to have very illogical assumptions about what could negatively impact animal welfare in hunting.

Is this number for UK right? Why is it so wildly different from Germany and most other European countries?

That's not a gavel, that's a +2 War Hammer.

"Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust to end controversial pay-to-shoot deer hunting in Scotland"

"Texas wildlife officials have named the suspects at the center of a massive smuggling operation to illegally transport whitetail deer across the state–and one of the alleged smugglers is on the board of the Texas Deer Association."

Happy to share our new paper estimating lion density in Pilanesberg National Park 🇿🇦 and assessing optimal sampling guidelines for improved monitoring efficiency 🦁 wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #mammals

Are "people" really doing that or did you see one influencer claim to do this, probably just to rage bait and go viral? Also iffy to see this from someone who posts "I read 186 books in the first six months of this year" like it's a competition. You fuel this I-read-more-books-than-you cheating.

"Hunting and the outdoors" couldn't conjure up a non-AI image of a hunter? Ffs... So far, I honestly think hunters have been one of the worst demographics I've seen when it comes to uncritical and lazy use of AI-slop for just about everything.

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

This is very thorough. www.boone-crockett.org/when-lead-me...

A little piece of insanity in Hong Kong is having workers going around in city parks in the flower beds and blowing dead leaves out of the flower bed and onto the pavement and then gathering them up in black plastic bags.

Seeking a PhD in landscape ecology & applied conservation? Funded PhD project at @forestry.ubc.ca w/ Dr. Matthew Mitchell: * Stipend $32k/yr + benefits x 4 yrs * Start Jan or May 2026 * Collaborate w NCC & Metro Vancouver * Open until filled mgemitchell.weebly.com/opportunitie...

Early word we'll have funding to recruit a Post-Doc in the Human Dimensions of Wildlife space - specifically working on hunter behaviors in deer management across several midwestern states. On the ground work, experiments, many academic & agency partners! Spread the word to any potential applicants.

People who start sentences with "if you think about it..." are never people who actually thought much about it.

It's me... www.oikosjournal.org/blog/welcome...

"Flawed analysis invalidates claim of a strong Yellowstone trophic cascade after wolf reintroduction: A comment on Ripple et al. (2025)" Preprint. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

I'm sorry, but I think this graphical abstract is a car crash.

It’s almost as though universities have been taken over by a class of soulless executives who loot their public institutions for perks and salaries

The reactions to this have been kind of annoying to me, and it's been from both sides. Of course you have all the obviously unhinged antihunters, celebrating that the hunter died. That degeneracy needs no further elucidation. I want to talk a bit about why common hunter reactions annoy me.

The Trump administration has deleted all previous National #Climate Assessments from government websites and fired the scientists working on the next report. Now they say they're going to rewrite the previous ones. This is scientific sabotage and a rewriting of history. www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/c...

I wonder, if it should end up with a single person owning all the world's wealth and everyone else living in poverty, would there still be people who dismissed all criticism of the distribution of wealth with "you're just envious"?

The Walia ibex, an iconic wild goat species found only on the steep, ragged cliffs of the Simien Mountains in northern Ethiopia, has sharply declined in number over the past decade, according to a recent study. This puts the Walia ibex on the brink of extinction once again.

I just found out that I'm vegan. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I need someone to tell me if I'm a fool or if I'm right that this doesn't make sense. I found a new press release and study from Slovakia claiming that bow-hunted animals have lower cortisol and adrenaline levels (stress hormones, an animal welfare indicator) than firearm-hunted animals. 1/4

Kenya again.

"#overtourism has arrived in the bush and it’s hurting the #wildlife" IMHO African national parks need to work harder on promoting lesser-known sites and parks to spread visitors around -- but that requires imagination and deep knowledge. It's so much easier to repeat the Big 5 mantra (sigh)