An ancient yew tree in Scotland that is half the age of the Holocene has caught our attention. What a privilege to be in the presence of one of the oldest trees in Europe. @ymalhi.bsky.social explains the significance of this giant. @naturerecovery.bsky.social @ecioxford.bsky.social

From monitoring and threat detection, to vaccination and community initiatives, the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme is helping to protect the Afroalpine ecosystem and endangered wolves that call it home. Discover 30 years of research 👉 ethiopianwolf.org/resources/EW... @biology.ox.ac.uk

How can #NaturebasedSolutions balance bankability and integrity? 🌱 Explore the governance and financing of NbS projects on our NbS to Global Challenges Foundation Course 🌍 Led by @wwf.org.uk NbS team Apply now (deadline 13th October 2025) ➡️ www.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/nature-based...

🌿 Shaping the future with #NaturebasedSolutions: Policymaking for NbS🌿 🎓 Join our October 2025 NbS Foundation Course to explore the science, practice, policy, governance and financing of nature-based solutions. Apply here (Deadline 13th Oct): www.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/nature-based...

Conservation runs on digital outreach campaigns—videos, memes, hashtags. But do they work? In a new blog for @ConsEvidence, Gabriel Caetano & I evaluate talk about the evaluation of two campaigns using culturomics (big digital data). 👉 about.conservationevidence.com/2025/09/25/c...

In Chad’s Greater Zakouma Ecosystem, lions move with the seasons, staying near waterholes during the dry season, but roaming far beyond during the wet season. Study led by Chiara Fraticelli, with WildCRU’s Claudio Sillero-Zubiri & Hans Bauer 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1... @biology.ox.ac.uk

Parents may struggle to go green, but they can shape their kids’ eco-habits. Dr @samhampton.bsky.social (ECI) and Bath Uni research show guidance + policy could turn awareness into action . ➡️https://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/uk-parents-struggle-go-green-could-shape-next-generation-says-eci-researcher

In case you missed it last week, the next Masterclass on Mitigating Illegal Wildlife Trade is now open for applications 🎉. Find out more here https://ow.ly/qS0y50X3min 📆 Deadline: 17th October #IllegalWildlifeTrade #WestAfrica

Meet Diploma student Stephen Ngoma! From studying farming impacts on waterfowl to witnessing carnivore vulnerability to habitat degradation and human-induced threats, Stephen’s work aims to protect threatened species and the ecosystems they depend on. wildcru.org/members/step... @biology.ox.ac.uk

A recent paper led by Dr Huanyuan Zhang-Zheng @h-zhang.bsky.social uses vapour pressure deficit to mechanistically explain the transition of vegetation traits along a wet-to-dry gradient in Ghana. Read more here: www.oxfordecosystems.org/post/testing...

A great new MSc at the ECI. Find out more about our MSc in Environmental Change and Policy. ⬇️

Not all scientists start on equal footing. 🌍👩‍🔬 Research by Dr Diogo Veríssimo @ECIOxford shows gender, language & economic background can cut English-language publications by up to 70%. ➡️ www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/who-get... #ScienceEquity #GlobalScience

This series of talks is open to everyone, and we hope to see you there!

Can digital campaigns really boost conservation? 🐘🐸 Dr Diogo Veríssimo @ECIOxford shows how to measure their impact using digital data + culturomics. Read more ➡️ www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/eci-res... #Conservation #Biodiversity #BehaviouralScience #Culturomics

🌲✨ Fully funded DPhil at the University of Oxford! Join ECI’s BioEO group to explore AI + remote sensing + forest resilience — and how it links to public health. 📅 Apply by 7 Nov 2025 🔗 www.geog.ox.ac.uk/study/gradua... #PhD #Climate #Forests #AI

In case you missed the Nature Impacts webinar earlier this month you can catch it on YouTube now! @biology.ox.ac.uk @iccs.bsky.social

Fully funded doctoral studentship available in AI, Remote Sensing, & Forest Resilience to Climate - Insights for Public Health, join us in the @ecioxford.bsky.social in the @oxfordgeography.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk More info ⬇️🌳🎓

🚨 New paper in PLOS Biology! 📉 Women publish up to 45% fewer papers than men 📉 Non-native English speakers: –35% 📉 Triple barrier (woman + non-native English + low-income): –70% 🌍 Language & equity matter in science! 👉 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #EquityInScience #LanguageMatters #OpenScience

Join our team and contribute to world-leading research while shaping bold, practical solutions for people and planet. @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @ecioxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

Still some seats left for this seminar on Weds 17th in @oxfordgeography.bsky.social Hope to see you there

🌍 What could a just, thriving future for people and nature look like? Laura Pereira explores why we need transformative scenarios—and how the Nature Futures Framework helps us imagine better paths forward. ✨🌱 @laurap18.bsky.social @ecioxford.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

We have a bonus seminar coming your way next week, reserve your seat now: bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiv... @ecioxford.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @torchoxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk

🌿 What can conservation learn from Indigenous worldviews? Helina Jolly shares insights from the Kattunayakan people of South India, where nature is kin, not a resource. A powerful call to rethink human–nature relations. @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @ecioxford.bsky.social @helinajolly.bsky.social

🌱 Can the Amazon help turn the tide on climate change? In this video @dannepstad.bsky.social explores how J-REDD+ carbon credits could cut global emissions by 5%—while funding forest protection & shifting global commodity markets. 🌍🔥 Watch here. @ecioxford.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

🧠🌿 Want real change in conservation? In this talk, Brock Bergseth shows how behavioral science—not just awareness—can drive lasting environmental action. Learn what works & why. Watch now @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @ecioxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk

🌍 Are tech & economic fixes enough to solve the environmental crisis? In this energising talk, Tom Oliver argues real change needs a shift in culture, identity & our connection to nature. 🧠✨ Hopeful examples included. Watch the recording. @uniofreading.bsky.social @ecioxford.bsky.social

We have a bonus seminar coming your way in September, reserve your seat now: bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiv... @ecioxford.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @torchoxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk

We are delighted to congratulate @kayla-king.bsky.social, who has been awarded the Francis Crick Medal and Lecture for contributions to the fields of evolutionary biology and genetics of infectious disease 🦠 More on the award and Kayla's work 👇 bit.ly/3HU9ziW

📢 Are you passionate about making a positive impact in local communities? Join Science Together, a unique opportunity to collaborate with Oxfordshire community partners on practical projects addressing their needs. Submit your expression of interest now.

🔊Congratulations @ymalhi.bsky.social 🎉 naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/news/yadvind... 🌴🍃

Soul mate or sole mate? 💔 A new collaborative study following great tits in Wytham Woods has found that, like in humans, there are often signs of a relationship breakdown long before the couple split. Read more about the study's findings: tinyurl.com/25tb384f

📸 Other Than Oxford – Telling Many Stories, One Community is looking for volunteers! The team is looking for 12-15 people from underrepresented groups at Oxford to share their stories through photography. ➡️ Interested in taking part? Apply by 30 Aug forms.office.com/e/Z2MsZ8rnEN

A collaborative study including researchers from @biology.ox.ac.uk has engineered a yeast with the six essential sterols that #bees need 🐝 The study found that colonies fed with the sterol-enriched yeast reared up to 15 times more larvae to the viable pupal stage. ➡️ tinyurl.com/3vc9t8x5

🦋 Can private finance help fix biodiversity loss—or is it making things worse? In this recording, Dr. Sophus zu Ermgassen explores lessons from nature markets in England & Australia, discussing new research on scaling biodiversity investment in Europe. @ecioxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk

Have you ever wondered how lions have been shaped by climate change — both today and over thousands of years? 🦁 @tompavey.bsky.social shared results from novel modelling techniques, predicting how future climate change may affect lions & using palaeontological records to uncover past distributions

Human aspirations for better lives can be mobilized to ensure that the natural world thrives along with people. Says Pedro Conceição @undp.org Read his op-ed in the Financial Times, which builds on the paper published in Nature in June ⬇️Proud to be working alongside the @undp.org & others on this

Conservation work is often measured using numbers, but gathering real life stories from people who have different experiences and values can shape conservation efforts to make them more effective and fair. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... Co-authored by @diogoverissimo.bsky.social

“Ensuring that laws and policies that apply to wildlife harvest and trade are well designed and are understood by key actors including harvesters, traders and law enforcement agents is critical to ensuring that wildlife trade is both legal and sustainable.” iccs.org.uk/new-study-hi...

So many of us feel like this, and it's the small wins that give us hope that we can make a difference. Everything counts.

👢 Stick your wellies on! 👢 Jennifer Dodsworth of @oxfordgeography.bsky.social makes the case that taking a walk in someone else's shoes (or wellies!) can help us understand other perspectives and build a better food system w/ @rebelwrit.bsky.social Watch the full video: buff.ly/J82FIVV

Why I think the current UK government should ban the import of trophies from trophy hunting. trophy hunting is a nuanced topic, but my view is shooting animals for fun is never acceptable. the-european.eu/story-50018/...

Recently posted to our opportunities board: 💼 Project Administrator for HESTIA Project 📔 Based at @ox.ac.uk 🗓️ Apply by 15 Sept 2025 🌍 Oxford, UK ➡️

Food Takes 🥦 are back! Filmed at the @britishecologicalsociety.org Symposium on Nature, Food & Farming in June 2025, we’ve got several new #FoodTakes coming your way. What’s *your* food take? 🥦 Watch the series so far: buff.ly/PXsgPYC

Meet Diploma student Romaric Tegang! 🦁 Romaric’s work often takes him into the field, collecting data, capacity building and raising awareness of threatened species in his home country of Cameroon. 👉 www.wildcru.org/members/roma... @biology.ox.ac.uk @romarictegang.bsky.social

A new study has developed a framework to help agricultural sectors better contribute to global biodiversity targets without causing unintended harms. The study estimates that this could take the sector most of the way towards biodiversity targets 👇 bit.ly/45KLggw

ECI’s Diogo Veríssimo co-authors study urging conservation to value stories & lived experiences as much as data. “Conservation is about people too.” Case studies from Japan, Kenya & Bonaire prove it. Read: doi.org/10.1111/csp2...

Have you noticed the skies have gone quiet? The swifts have flown to Africa, leaving a silence where their screams once danced. I miss their wild shrieks already! If you do too, watch Charles Foster’s beautiful talk: 'The Screaming Skies' — a love song to their joyful chaos.

Shade trees hold diverse values to cocoa farmers in Ekiti State, Nigeria 🌳 A new #mixedmethods study published in #AgroforestrySystems by NbSI’s Zoe Brown found that cocoa farms host a rich diversity of native & economically valuable trees ➡️ www.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/news/shade-t...

🌍 | Nathalie Seddon, Professor of Biodiversity @biology.ox.ac.uk ‬ and Founding Director of @naturebasedsols.bsky.social, champions the importance of working with nature in the bid to tackle the climate crisis. Learn more about her career and research ⬇️ www.ox.ac.uk/climate-and-... #OxfordClimate

🚨Job alert! The ONZ Engagement Team is recruiting for a Corporate Policy Engagement Manager. We're looking for someone w/deep climate policy knowledge to drive our work on corporate policy responsibility. Apply by 12pm on 2 Sept: netzeroclimate.org/job-opening-...