🐾 Sociodemographic and regional differences in human–coyote interactions and human attitudes towards coyotes "Coexistence isn’t just ecological—it’s societal" 📖 Read the full paper here! ➡️ buff.ly/HeqHF0z

☀️ Delivering resilience for people and nature in Anthropocene landscapes "The creation of resilient socio-ecological landscapes and systems needs to recognise that with rapid global change, the future will not resemble the past" 📖 Read more! ➡️ buff.ly/hZ0LRZS

🏙️ Human activities, from farming to urbanization, often disrupt ecological synchrony, affecting ecological functioning and services, but active management of synchrony might alleviate this problem 📖 Read the full paper! ➡️ buff.ly/0LvEALB

💧‘Manure gets into your veins’: Navigating plural valuation among rural landowners upstream from a Tribe-led restoration project "Livelihoods, identity, anxiety, trust, and history influence collaboration. Restoration success depends on navigating relationships" 📖 buff.ly/ASWH3CV

🚣 Charge towards green finance ignores risks of nature commodification: Evidence from the UK's climate and nature recovery policy landscape 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/KLS1gUy

⭐️Shortlisted for the 2025 Rachel Carson Prize!⭐ 🐍 Karl Zeller's paper explores which animals do people fear most, and why? In a time of rapid biodiversity loss and increasing urbanisation, understanding why certain species trigger strong aversion matters @karlzlr.bsky.social 📖 buff.ly/Ea5jwY9

🌲Forests ignore borders, but conservation doesn’t. In the Alto Paraná Atlantic Forest, one ecosystem spans three countries; yet conservation outcomes differ sharply. #Governance #Deforestation @mariapiquerr.bsky.social 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/zatsudF

🗺️ Joint social-ecological outcomes of private land conservation: An evidence synthesis with a well-being perspective 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/C1TbsGt

⭐️Shortlisted for the 2025 Rachel Carson Prize!⭐ 🚨 Zafarani Uwingabire's paper explores how integrating diverse perspectives into environmental governance can lead to more inclusive, effective, and durable conservation outcomes 📖 Read her blog here! ➡️ buff.ly/6Byc6B7

🍖 New study shows American hunters legally procure 1.4 billion meals of wild meat each year! Without hunting, it would cost $4.2 billion annually to replace this wild protein with protein from store-bought meat. @cv_insights 📖 Read more here! ➡️ buff.ly/FnmG9rE

🥾 ‘You shall not pass!’—frequent hikers' acceptance of access restrictions in overcrowded Italian Mountains 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/JwcABRO

⭐️Shortlisted for the 2025 Rachel Carson Prize!⭐ 🐆 Shweta Shivakumar's shortlisted paper uses ground narratives of experiential encounters between people and leopards to arrive at a deeper understanding of coexistence with a carnivore attributed with human casualties 📖 buff.ly/tdbtTcs

🐟️ New study shows marine fish supply ~35% of animal protein and up to 71% of key micronutrients for fishing families in NE Brazil. Losing 25% of fish species could cut nutrient supply by >70%. Protecting key species links fisheries, conservation & food security 📖 Read here! ➡️ buff.ly/qbD9w4r

⭐️Shortlisted for the 2025 Rachel Carson Prize!⭐ 👂️Kevin Rozario's shortlisted paper explores how people perceive biodiversity by two human sensory pathways @alettabonn.bsky.social 📖 Read their blog here! ➡️ buff.ly/sEEd2Dx

🦌 Views from the hill: Deer stalkers' perspectives on land-use change in the Scottish Highlands @GeosciencesEd 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/EoqhVbk

🏞️ Weaving for action: Transformative change in biodiversity monitoring 📖 Read the full paper here! ➡️ buff.ly/IlfBMSh

⭐️Shortlisted for the 2025 Rachel Carson Prize!⭐ 🌊 Jaime Ojeda's 2 shortlisted papers explore the complexity of reciprocity as an emergent value in people and nature relationships: a value that can flourish across diverse marine and cultural contexts ➡️ buff.ly/lyajP9n

👥 Social norms are central to cooperation in natural resource co-management, yet remain conceptually fragmented. New study shows vague definitions and imprecise indicators obscure how expectations, sanctions and peer monitoring shape rule compliance 📖 buff.ly/8hCHHfp

🌳How can ecosystem services scenarios inform forest planning?—Seven lessons from Leanachan Forest, Scotland 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/iHxShzK

⭐️Shortlisted for the 2025 Rachel Carson Prize!⭐ 🐃 Oscar Jones explores the interactive effects of two introduced ungulate species, and saltwater intrusion, on above-ground carbon dynamics and bush food values Read Oscar's blog here➡️ buff.ly/C1nF0Dg

⭐️Shortlisted for the 2025 Rachel Carson Prize!⭐ 🐐 Spencer Greening explores the actionable ways humans can understand themselves as a part of ecosystems through harvesting. Read Spencer's blog here ➡️ buff.ly/0wqOyew

⭐️Shortlisted for the 2025 Rachel Carson Prize!⭐ 🌱 Marie Ruth Dago's paper explores reasons that encourage cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire in West Africa to add value to trees in their cocoa farms. Read Marie's blog ➡️ buff.ly/BYpPRGP

⭐️Shortlisted for the 2025 Rachel Carson Prize!⭐ 🌿Crystal Arnold's paper explores how we might re-envision care in weed management by centring Indigenous knowledge and moving beyond conventional frameworks Read Crystal's blog ➡️ buff.ly/DvhxEak

↩️ Unravelling vicious circles of land use competition and food insecurity in agropastoral rangelands "Our modelling study uncovers how crop farming may reduce overall food insecurity for smallholders but drive greater inequality" 📖 Read the paper! ➡️ buff.ly/LpoGFDX

🛣️ Managing the margins: Practitioner perspectives on barriers and solutions for biodiversity-friendly roadside management in Germany 📖 Read the full paper here! ➡️ buff.ly/BJZSbrS

🌍️ In Madagascar’s Makira Protected Area, people hunt certain animals according to seasonal taste preferences which correspond to broader ecological patterns. Understanding this cascade of connections can help develop sustainable patterns of resource use. Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/pCOEvVV

❣️ From awe to action? An interdisciplinary, systematic review of awe's potential influence on pro-environmental behaviour ➡️ buff.ly/skmbf7w "Awe may boost connection to nature, shift worldviews, and help people move from environmental intention to action"

🚨 We're happy to announce this year's Rachel Carson Prize shortlist! 🏆 Every year we award the Rachel Carson Prize to the best paper in the journal by an author at the start of their career🌳👥 Check out the full shortlist here ➡️ buff.ly/Gw11xNJ

🚨 New podcast episode available now! 🌳 We speak to recently published People and Nature author Marilisa Herchet about the mental health benefits of urban green 🏙️ 🎙️ Listen on Soundcloud ➡️ buff.ly/eK1rfVy 🎙️ Listen on Spotify ➡️ buff.ly/3hWpQn7

🌟 New blog from our Associate Editor Chiara Bragagnolo ➡️ buff.ly/XDSlsTt 📖 Read the full paper on hydropower infrastructure and its influence on hydrosocial relations in the Lower Sogamoso River, Colombia here ➡️ buff.ly/5mCIIjC @charaspace.bsky.social

🤝 we're recruiting an Associate Blog Editor! 📝 join us in identifying, commissioning, and editing blog posts for Animal Ecology in Focus 🐝 more information on the role and how to apply can be found here: buff.ly/I9Kf6Er

Don't forget to register for our next MEE live! In this free webinar, we'll hear from Drs Figueiredo and Radchuk about the R package estar 🌍 🧪 Find out more and register here 👉 buff.ly/0hrRYjv

How do you design a camera-trap workflow that is field-resilient and analysis-ready? Join our webinar as Dr. Hugo Magaldi and Prof. Sabrina Krief discuss camera‑trapping in Uganda and their development of DeepForestVision for AI species labelling and quality control 📸 See here 👇 buff.ly/itLWDWw

🚨Our March issue is now live! 📖 buff.ly/dRncFQX 🐝 Our amazing cover image depicts the special relationship between wild honeyguides and the humans they guide to wild bees’ nests. Read more about these honeyguides here ➡️ buff.ly/r8mObm6

🚨 New perspective piece - How to face Environmental crises? By aligning actions across roles, ecologists & environmental scientists can do more for a sustainable future, and professional societies can help them! 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/3d1GZZL

🌍️ The dynamics of wild and alternative meat consumption across Gabon, Central Africa - "Wild and alternative meat and fish consumption is influenced by urbanisation, isolation, and prices." 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/d2Sh2dj

New study analysed 4k images from UK rewilding organizations & AI images 📸 Charismatic species and scenic views 💀 Death and decay mostly absent 👥 Few people depicted 🤖 AI imagery reproduces these exclusionary representations Time to diversify! 📖 buff.ly/GWT6QCL

👥 Engaging people in educational processes that foster environmentally valuable outcomes: A synthesis of key findings across eight systematic reviews 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/GemXxr4

We're finally seeing the sun at BES HQ in London 🌞 and it feels like t-shirt weather! To celebrate, there's free UK shipping on BES t-shirts - and everything else in our shop - this weekend 👕 Order from 9am Friday to midnight Sunday (GMT) - no codes needed 😎 britishecologicalsociety.teemill.com

🌏️Using a multilayer network built from local knowledge in PNG, new study shows how species can underpin ecosystem service flows and the link between these species' roles and their human value 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/rSdPIwv

🌳 Contact to urban nature is beneficial for public mental health: New meta-analysis summarizes 107 pre-post control comparisons found positive and significant effects for anxiety, stress, mood, depression, restoration and attention 📖 buff.ly/99dtXxR

📑 Developing ocean literacy through a relational model: Exploring outcomes of a place-based ocean education programme in primary schools 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/WM9jBj7

🌊 From commons to commoning as resistance efforts to blue injustice: A sociohistorical and ethnographical approach 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/mXz4KP5

🌱 Using long-term vegetation cover trends from the Atrato River, a new study explores how ecological indicators can inform the implementation of rights-of-nature rulings—and why governance, and communities are essential for making rights visible. 📖 buff.ly/Uzlcg7n

🎶New study highlights how musical improvisation in a forest setting promotes embodied creativity and co-creation with nature. Analyses show spontaneous sound integration, elevated positive emotions, and nature’s role in creative expression 📖 buff.ly/qqqrK0C

🚨 Deadline update - 8th March 🌟 We're looking for Associate Editors to join our People and Nature editorial board Find out more and apply here ➡️ buff.ly/LvTJGnW

In the latest episode of the @britishecologicalsociety.org podcast you can hear the story behind our research on the importance of considering social & cultural values when restoring 'lost' tree species: open.spotify.com/episode/3zRJ... 🎙️🌳 @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @peopleandnature.bsky.social

🌱 Overnight summer camps can boost kids’ emotional affinity for nature—even for those with limited green space at home. Meaningful experiences make the difference. Small gains can ripple into lifelong stewardship #NatureConnection #YouthDevelopment 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/fdyoVcM

🐦 What drives people to protect birds? Findings reveal that early emotional nature experiences shape biospheric values, while structured settings directly foster engagement. A tailored mix of both may best promote bird conservation. 📖 Read here ➡️ buff.ly/yXhfxi0

🪲 The Noble Chafer is a species that shows a precarity of habitat that rests on complimentary landscape management choices. This invertebrate bioindicator is used to explore the direct impact of changes to England’s orchard landscapes on biodiversity 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/qRmDOtl