How do feral cats impact native prey during a long-haired rat population boom? #AusMamSoc25 - Charlotte Woods & Andrew Baker

“Antarctic seal numbers falling drastically due to melting sea ice, research shows” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Our researchers have developed a powerful risk mapping tool to help prevent fatal collisions between endangered wedge-tailed eagles and overhead power lines. The model is already helping guide conservation strategies across Tasmania. Read more: utas.au/Tracking_

📢We're looking for a #MarineOrnithologist to join us! This varied role will include supporting a review of the Special Protection Area (SPA) network, data analysis & review of management measures. 📆 Closing date: 30 June 2025 👉 Learn more & apply here: bit.ly/JNCCpost202529 #JobOpportunity

The use of eDNA to survey invasion risk to Antarctic waters. Frances Perry from @arcsaef.bsky.social @university adelaide explains how ocean environments & ships hull can be sampled simply & easily using eDNA approaches #ICCB2025

It's essential to build genetic diversity into the design of protected area. @lausally.bsky.social shares learnings about biodiversity hotspots in Antartcic marine waters informed by genetic data. Supported by @arcsaef.bsky.social #ICCB2025

But Wisdom surprised us all this breeding season by finding a new mate and laying an egg, which subsequently hatched. Video of them is here. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s... And a timeline of Wisdom the mōlī up until 2020 is here. www.audubon.org/magazine/sev... #ICCB2025 🧪

John Woinarksi speaking about invasive predators and mammal extinction and decline and countering invasive species denialism #iccb2025

Today is World Albatross Day! In a nice coincidence of timing, my #ICCB2025 talk this morning will be about using DNA from albatross and petrel 🪶 and penguin 💩 to inform Antarctic seabird conservation 🧬 #consgen Learn more about World Albatross Day from ACAP here: www.acap.aq/world-albatr...

#ICCB2025 plenary speaker Amy van Nice from the Wildlife Alliance is sharing hard truths from work to combat the illegal wildlife trade. Among the many challenges, funding systems are biased towards short-term projects, and donor priorities are often misaligned with on-ground needs. #conservation

What information is most useful to make better decisions based on a model? @katehelmstedt.bsky.social explains how Value of Information can inform which marine invasive species should be monitored in Antarctica AND which uncertainties in our ecosystem models should we be resolving? #ICCB2025

I'm really excited to be in Brissy for #ICCB2025! Come see me Tuesday during the poster session (Poster 61), where I'll detail some questions that can be asked with the recently published Seabird Restoration Database! Could be a great PhD chapter for a PhD student. 🧪 www.seabirddatabase.org

Horrifying and eye-opening research on the impact of rodenticides on Oz wildlife. This slide is a great summary of the research from @pezoporus.bsky.social and collaborators. #iccb2025

Great #NESP Resilient Landscapes Hub session @ #ICCB2025 - translating science into convention outcomes through meaningful relationships. Two fantastic @tasland.bsky.social @utas.edu.au projects presented by Natasha Stoudmann and Laura Smith.

Amy Coetzee from Zoos Victoria shows the benefits of cat control on small marsupials; Eastern Barred Bandicoots & Long nosed Potoroos on islands. Cat control has commenced on French Island already benefiting threatened species. Here's hoping cat eradication is achieved! #ICCB2025

Low genetic diversity thought to contribute to high disease susceptibility of critically endangered Orange Bellied Parrots in captive and wild populations. Population decreases drive inbreeding - they have low immunogenetic diversity says Luke Silver #ICCB2025

@hugepossum.bsky.social reminds us it's critical to determine what the management actions are to save threatened species, and then we need to prioritize those actions, & consider the costs of the actions #ICCB2025

Border walls between Mexico & USA impact large carnivores (e.g. bears ocelot, mountain lions) and threatened mammals. Challenges of conservation at the borderlands - a fascinating talk by Kinley Regan @phoenixzoo.bsky.social #ICCB2025

So great to be here! I've already had the wonderful surprise of running into international colleagues. so great to NOT be on zoom #ICCB2025

Interested in spatial modelling, data integration, and conservation of remote regions? Come and chat to me about Antarctica at today's #ICCB2025 poster session!!

Protecting nature supports biodiversity and reduces damage to human infrastructure due to natural disasters like landslides, says #ICCB2025 plenary speaker Binbin Li, while talking about synergies between #conservation and community development.

Ricky Archer gifts us all the opening plenary at #ICCB2025, talking to indigenous-led parks management, and threading together western and indigenous lenses on caring for Country. Great start @iccb2025.bsky.social.

"It’s impossible to separate human health from health of the natural world. Ecology is the unifying science that integrates knowledge and understanding of the Earth, as well as the animal—human connections within it" We'd add climate and social dynamics, too. 🌐🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Kangaroo Island formerly had the highest feral pig density in South Australia, but new mapping from #ABARES tells a dramatically different story thanks the brilliant work of #PIRSA, #KILB, #DEW and #NPWS on the Kangaroo Island feral pig eradication progam. www.agriculture.gov.au/sites/defaul...

Winner of Equality & Diversity champion #BES2024 goes to @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social - yesterday I posted a link to one of his @plosbiology.org papers, but arguably this one (the costs of having English as a 2nd/3rd/4th language in science) is arguably just as important: plos.io/46Rfptc

Great to see Australian Geographic advocating for threatened species at Melbourne Airport as I journey home from #ESAus2024. Think airport were a bit suss of how long I stood there watching their advertising screens

1381 humans registered for #ESAus2024 this year an amazing effort. And am impressive turn out of people right up to last session

Last day of talks at #ESAus2024 and this morning we are taking a sensory ecology turn: thinking how species find food using smell! Pat Finnerty explores how species use the olfactory landscape and how we can manipulate this for #conservation🌏 🧪 Concept here: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Invasive alien species are a threat to #nature, nature’s contributions to people, and good quality of life. Read the @ipbes.bsky.social #InvasiveAlienSpecies Report at: www.ipbes.net/ias 🧪🌍

Uffe Nielsen reminds how important it is to look below ground as well as above ground when looking at ecosystem recovery and what they are finding in the Cumberland plains woodlands #ESAus2024

Opening key note of #ESAus2024 is Prof Emily Nicholson, emilynicholson.wordpress.com/about-me/ 🌏🧪 She reflects that recent work brings together the many threads of her career: creating a monitoring framework for the GBF. Each indicator/target needs to be monitored tomorrow check progress!!

Awesome work presented and led by @jessica-walsh.bsky.social at #ESAus2024. Thinking on ways to measure ecosystem recovery, using the proposed Green List for Ecosystems. Amazing work coming from Australian ecology to inform progress on nature recovery.

David Keith's awesome talk explains green status & red list of ecosystems and how to apply IUCN criteria #ESAus2024

Wonderful opening plenary at #ESAus2024, by the amazing Emily Nicholson. Navigating the challenges of global & national politics, and how we can align measures of biodiversity across the world, to support the implementation of the #GBF. Really important work, Em.

BREAKING: The IUCN Species Survival Commission Shark Specialist Group has released a new report on the global conservation status of sharks and their relatives. portals.iucn.org/library/node...

I’m lucky to part of this group, with a project funded for cross-disciplinary (glacier-biodiversity) work with Steven Chown, @justineshaw.bsky.social Regine Hock and @iceybethan.bsky.social My thoughts are also with those who were unsuccessful. www.monash.edu/science/news...

🌊 "Nowhere on Earth is there a greater cause of uncertainty in sea-level rise projections than from East Antarctica, in Australia’s backyard. The East Antarctic Ice Sheet alone holds enough water to raise global sea levels by approximately 50m if completely melted." www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

An exciting new #conservation #job working with TERN on the threatened species index - the federal governments core biodiversity indicator uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo...

Thank you to @kylielewis.bsky.social, we now have a Homeward Bound starter pack - looking forward to connecting with the nine cohorts of #WomenInSTEMM leaders go.bsky.app/EXogj2a

Another great postdoctoral opportunity for early-career researchers at the University of Cambridge: Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in School of Biological Sciences (www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49122/