AI makes rewilding look tame – and misses its messy reality When AI is asked to picture “rewilded” Britain, it produces landscapes that are strikingly similar – and tame northeastbylines.co.uk/news/environ...

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

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

🌎Check out our new #paper which analyses #AI-generated representations of #rewilding produced by different chatbots alongside visual and textual materials from UK rewilding advocacy organisations. #Rewilding #CriticalAIAnalysis #ConservationScience #NatureRecovery

🌎 🧪 Our new #rewilding piece is available to read in #TheBiologist - Guerilla Rewilding: Urgent protest or dangerous gamble? Read it here 🔗👉🏻 tinyurl.com/mr586cke

🌍🧪The full paper is out now and free to read here: 🔗👉🏻https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70266 #rewilding #future

🌎🧪New #blog ahead of our upcoming #research #paper: Why visual #representation in #rewilding matters👬👫🌳👩‍👩‍👧 Visual patterns reveal exclusionary visions of #landscapes & environmental futures. #AI generated images risk amplifying biases tinyurl.com/y9dyyfrf #repeopling #UK #naturerecovery #socialjustice

If this is your sort of thing we also recently published a series of discussion papers on place sensitive understandings of nature recovery www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/projects/pla...

📢🌎🧪Our #paper for @britishacademy.bsky.social is out! We analyse place-based & social justice dimensions of England's Biodiversity Net Gain #policy, and provide a framing for policymakers to integrate social & cultural #values into #naturerecovery Open access here 👉🏻🔗 lnkd.in/ena2eyqS #BNG #nature

🚨 Just one week left to apply for one of the THREE postdoc positions in the #GreenFrontier project hosted at @fnp-wur.bsky.social #conservation #EnvJustice #wilderness #rewilding #rural #underdevelopment #LandAbandonment Deadline 25 November! Full details 👉 www.wur.nl/en/research-...

🌏 #rewilding is happening at home - found an intrepid flat worm in the cellar. Maybe (?)Bipalium kewense, a non-native shovel-headed garden worm. Any #worm experts please confirm! You can submit a @inaturalist.bsky.social record of cosmopolitan visitors to Buglife PotWatch campaign lnkd.in/ebKyggVG

🌍 Fantastic conservation postdoc roles x 3 with @georgeiorda.bsky.social on the Green Frontier project👇 #postdoc

🪂Species reintroductions have a radical history; in the UK, where official rewilding remains tightly regulated, a covert counterculture has emerged🐗 🦅Glentworth et al. explore guerilla rewilding: unlicensed releases reshaping landscapes and challenging norms🦫 📰 lnkd.in/dw7EVA5n 🖥️ lnkd.in/dxJK4Wy6

Great to see our new guerilla #rewilding #paper out in Oryx Available #openaccess here 👉🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S003... 🌍🧪

Considering the value that history and other disciplines outside of the natural sciences offer for rewilding efforts.

📣 Super important paper 📣 It explores what's needed to ensure placemaking, the built environment, & transport can play a role in health creation & overcoming inequalities. Systems thinking is vital: foster the right leadership, collaborate across disciplines, and empower. (HT @sfrost.bsky.social)

Our new #rewilding #paper is Open Access and free to view 🌎 👇

Louise Fitzgerald & I are hiring an 18 month postdoc and 18 month research assistant (no PhD required) for a project on the political ecology of land ownership in Ireland. 2 weeks to apply. DM for any questions. 🧵 Link to DCU website: www.dcu.ie/people/jobs

When she was just 26 Florence Merriam wrote the first guide to birding with binoculars in 1889. And she slipped in this incredible feminist gem:

Fantastic 🤩 👏

1/ 📄New paper! Alison Hutchinson @georgeiorda.bsky.social Teresa Lappe-Osthege & myself have developed a new harms-based #PoliticalEcology as a way of understanding the #WildlifeTrade published in @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social ⬇️ beastlybusiness.org/2025/07/23/n...

Plus a jargon-free Plain Language Summary explaining how using #socialscience in #rewilding benefits #nature and #people 🔗👉 relationalthinkingblog.com/2025/07/15/p... 🌍

POLLEN 2026 is happening in Barcelona 🌅 The call for panels is open and closes on July 31st. See here for more information: tinyurl.com/5b8c5w7j Spread the word.

Perhaps a survey is needed by @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social to keep up the momentum following the Climate & Sustainability Assembly on this topic 🌳🚲🐦📒

OUT NOW: The laid-out version of the FULL @ipbes.net #TransformativeChange Report 💥 Explore how fundamental change can halt biodiversity loss and secure just and sustainable futures for all. 🌏🧪 Access the full report in English⬇️ https://www.ipbes.net/transformative-change-assessment

Working on #EnvironmentalJustice topics in Central and Eastern Europe? Then you might want to send an abstract for the conference 'The Greyzone of the Green Transition' that I'm co-organizing with my colleagues from Sibiu next year in Romania (18-19 May 2026). Participation is free of charge!

Thanks George!

📢 Our new #rewilding #paper is now out in @peopleandnature.bsky.social We show how #interdisciplinary critical #socialscience can help enhance social and environmental #justice in #conservation Available FREE #openaccess here 👉 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/pan3... 🌎🧪

Would more people get to enjoying active travel and time outdoors if they had better route information? Do you use a wheelchair, scooter or pushchair and feel limited by a lack of good information on accessible paths? We've got a plan. Please look and share! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways ⭐🐌

Looking for a research associate to explore societal engagement with forest restoration on digital media – with @lboungr.bsky.social @wildflyingpanda.bsky.social @gabrielecolombo.bsky.social & more. Grateful for help sharing with those who might be interested! jonathangray.org/2025/05/31/s...

Sustain responds to Land Use Framework consultation ▶️ 21 organisations sign joint response coordinated by Sustain, highlighting key oversights in the government's proposed framework, intended to guide future decision making about land use in England.

📢FREE online course on Biodiversity Finance! Learn to develop financially sound conservation solutions, conduct needs assessments & create effective finance plans. ➡️Adopt tools to make stronger business cases for biodiversity & nature.💼🌍🧪 Learn more: www.learningfornature.org/en/courses/b...

Closes today! ⬇️

Survey: The #UK’s global #research priorities on nature The UK government is seeking insights on its research priorities for nature and environment in #ODA (Official Development Assistance) settings. An online survey is open until 4 April. universityofsussex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

We have a vacancy for a 3 year full time postdoc position to: ➡️ research bottom up and transformative initiatives for biodiversity and climate ➡️ develop innovative knowledge and governance infrastructure ➡️ collaborate with societal actors to create space for just and sustainable futures

🚨 Great news! Dr. @amandastronza.bsky.social & Dr. @helinajolly.bsky.social published an article in @society4conbio.bsky.social 📖✨ It explores #human-wildlife coexistence through Indigenous knowledge & relational perspectives. 🌿🦌 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #TAMUECCB #ecology

Just a reminder to anyone reading this PR piece - true wild camping is covered under access rights in Scotland and does not require paying a membership fee or any fee to landowners. Official government advice on where/how to wild camp responsibly here: www.outdooraccess-scotland.scot/doc/camping-...

Have your say on the future of environmental science! NERC have launched a community consultation on their Forward Look, setting the direction for environmental science over the next decade.

1/ 📣 Big news! For the next 5 years I’ll be working with this amazing team @evahaifa.bsky.social Alasdair Cochrane & Bob McKay on the @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded Multispecies Mutualisms project wellcome.org/grant-fundin...

📢Are you an expert in biodiversity? @ipbes.net is looking for Experts and Fellows to produce the 2nd Global Assessment This will provide the best available scientific evidence to support global agreements such as the @unbiodiversity.bsky.social #CBD, inc assessing progress made against its targets

‘There’s an urgent housing crisis, we need to build more homes at staggeringly low densities!’

Superinspiring talks at 'Rethinking Wild Europe' conference. Highlights for me included #wolves in NL by @martindrenthen.bsky.social, conservation frontiers of Europe by @georgeiorda.bsky.social, the 'king and queen' of UK rewilding by @researchrestore.bsky.social #envhist #envhum

10/ Day 2 of Rethinking Wild Europe workshop @univie.ac.at starts with a fascinating keynote by @martindrenthen.bsky.social on the strategies for dealing with the recent dispersal of #wolves into 🇳🇱. He unpacks the 🗝 question - what is really at stake in the Dutch wolf debate?

Excited to do the first keynote lecture for the conference Rethinking Wild Europe tomorrow cetep.eu/rethinking-w... #envhist #envhum

Great to share my ideas on #rewilding knowledge & decisions at day 1 of the Rethinking Wild Europe conference in #Vienna. Looking forward to more discussions today on day 2! #wilderness #ethics #decisions

In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts. The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails. The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.

1/ There is a stunning disconnect between what we know is needed to conserve nature and what nature’s appointed defenders advocate for Unless it's addressed conservationists aren't really working to prevent the global collapse of nature, but only to delay it for a bit 🧵

Remember this one? Before & after of a brain after a 20 minute walk — why walking to work, or school, or just to get the intellectual juices flowing, is linked to better creative & intellectual performance. Among MANY other benefits to you and to society. Design and build more walkable cities.

“The three yachts of the Walton family, heirs of the Walmart retail chain, had a combined carbon footprint in one year of 18,000 tonnes – an amount similar to that of 1,714 Walmart shelf-stackers.”