🚨Call for entries!🚨 We're looking for the best original, unpublished essay in the history of natural history from undergraduate & postgraduate students worldwide. 🥇£300, publication in Archives of Natural History 📅Friday 15 August Find out eligibility & how to apply 👇🏻 shnh.org.uk/awards-honou...

I had to miss #ICCB2025 this year, but attendees may be interested in our survey of global conservation labour. We need respondents who work in conservation in any capacity, anywhere in the world 🌍 The QR code on the poster or the link in the reply will take you to a page with full information

If you spend time in Bymarka #Trondheim 🌳, we need you! One Landscape, Many Landscapes is an art project looking for people to draw their versions of the forest. Absolutely anyone can get involved! Find out how ⬇️ #nature #wildlife #landscape www.nickharveyconservation.co.uk

Hvis du tilbringer tid i Bymarka #Trondheim 🌳, trenger vi deg! Étt landskap, mange landskap er et kunstprosjekt som leter etter folk som vil tegne sine egne versjoner av skogen. Absolutt alle kan være med! Finn ut hvordan ⬇️ #nature #wildlife #landscape www.nickharveyconservation.co.uk

Hvis du tilbringer tid i Bymarka Trondheim 🌳, trenger vi deg! Étt landskap, mange landskap er et kunstprosjekt som leter etter folk som vil tegne sine egne versjoner av skogen. Absolutt alle kan være med! Finn ut hvordan ⬇️ #nature #wildlife #landscape www.nickharveyconservation.co.uk

If you spend time in #Bymarka Trondheim 🌳, we need you! One Landscape, Many Landscapes is an art project looking for people to draw their versions of the forest. Absolutely anyone can get involved! Find out how ⬇️ #nature #wildlife #landscape www.nickharveyconservation.co.uk

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

Interested in NbS and environmental justice?My excellent PI is recruiting a PhD candidate for the project: Financing Transformative Nature-based Solutions for Equitable and just Sustainability Solutions (FITNESS) More details including candidate requirements ⬇️ 🌍 publuu.com/flip-book/79...

Nature is not a blocker to growth. The UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves has claimed that 'The balance has gone too far in the direction of always protecting every bat and every newt.' But how can this statement be true when the UK is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world?🌍

🚨 We're hiring! Join us as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Food Policy, City St Georges . Lead impactful research on healthy, sustainable diets. Apply by 19th Feb 2025. Salary: £42,632 - £60,321. More info: www.city.ac.uk/about/jobs/a... #ResearchJobs #FoodPolicy #Health

It was wonderful to spend a few hours through Christmas and the new year with this! I can heartily recommend it to anyone #naturewriting

Week 2 - January 6th-12th. It is a week of textures and silhouettes rather than movement. Nature presents itself in monotones #naturephotography

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Week 1 - January 1st-5th 2025 arrived girdled in cold, stilled by ice and quietened by snow. The cold can be absolutely brutal, with temperatures regularly dropping below -10, finding gaps in even the best fitting clothes. #naturephotography

One of my resolutions for the new year is to try and pay closer attention to the nature and turning of the seasons around me 🌿 It is so easy to let nearby nature, and the magic how it changes through the year, pass us by. I also want to get to know my adpoted home of Norway better 🇳🇴

Just 4 days left to apply for this position! Please do circulate among any Indian researchers who may be interested and get in touch with me if you have any questions. 🌏 www.cmi.no/news/3358-re...

Time to re-introduce myself after the great migration! Im a postdoc in 🇳🇴 studying labour dynamics in conservation. With a training in biology, and a PhD researching black rhino conservation in Kenya, I’m interested in interdisciplinary research that aims for a more effective and just conservation!

I still get a thrill from seeing red squirrels here in Norway having spent most of my life restricted to greys in Britain www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Deep sea mining plans blocked in Norway 🇳🇴🚫 Environmental groups described the news as a “historic win” for ocean protection. Oslo had planned to let companies apply to mine 280,000 sq km (108,000 sq miles) of its waters, an area greater than the UK, for deep-sea minerals.

This role is largely political ecology but I know lots of people work across disciplines, please do pass on to any Indian researchers you know! 🌏

November nights in Trondheim

The Conservation Social Science Conference is coming up this week! My talk 'Towards a political ecology of zoo-led in situ conservation' develops the case for dedicated critical evaluation including why zoos are different from other conservation orgs 16:30 US EST / 22:30 CET Thursday 21st November

The Conservation Labor project is seeking a Research Assistant/Associate to conduct qualitative social science fieldwork in and around Indian protected areas. Candidates must be Indian citizens. Role description including requirements, application and remuneration ⬇️ www.cmi.no/news/3358-re...

I’ve never liked the phrase, “follow the science”, and I say that as a scientist. Science must inform what we do, but it’s not a replacement for morals. We lead with our commitments to humanity and nature and justice, and we use our science as a tool along the way. 🧪

A day late as always, but happy World Rhino Day! Of the 5 rhino species, 3 are Critically Endangered, 1 is Vulnerable and 1 is Near Threatened. The African white and black get a lot of the attention but the Javan and Sumatran are both right on the brink with just 50 or fewer of each left 🌍

"We cannot just assume that they have clung on in optimal habitat" Susanne Shultz and I describe how new research can recognise and correct species stereotypes, and how our work on black rhino diets exemplifies this approach via The Conversation 🧪 theconversation.com/false-stereo...

After years of work, I'm thrilled to announce a new open-access paper looking at seasonal changes in the diet and microbiome of black rhino🦏 and Grevy’s zebra🦓, and impact on breeding success 🧵below on results and vital implications for conservation 🧪   www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-05983-3

Not exactly a just transition is it? This is why social and environmental objectives have to go hand in hand, and conservation/ecological restoration is in no way apolitical www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Now my residential visa has been granted, I can announce that in February I’ll be starting a post doc at Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen! I’m crossing over to the social sciences and I’ll be working on the CONLAB project, looking at labour dynamics in conservation.

I can’t quite get over how absolutely mental this is www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...

And the plump berries become sweet floral jelly

Don’t cut your ivy folks 🌿 There are a huge amount of red admirals out around here at the moment, and they are all over the ivy. This patch had bumblebees, honey bees and a whole load of other stuff on it as well

Huge drifts of snowy white hawthorn blossom before the summer, the harbinger of a bumper crop of plump red berries after it 🌿

I’ve been looking at this for a day and I still don’t have the slightest clue what it means For all non-UK people, it’s the governing Conservative Party’s conference this week and it has been particularly unhinged 🧪

With 'Rishi Sunak considering weakening key green policies' topping the BBC website, its worth saying that if Labour engages in a race to bottom on environmental policy during the GE campaign, we are in a lot of trouble (well even more than we already are) leftfootforward.org/2023/08/how-...

Just a shout out to manuscript reviewers who give extremely well-considered, thoughtful and helpful reviews that will improve a piece of work 🧪 Also (and this was a first for me) huge thanks to reviewers who actually explicitly suggest removals and additions to improve clarity. What a treat!

Derbyshire horticultural shows are the most English things I’ve ever seen

Some work from my day job at CA. The Government urgently needs to plan winter support for vulnerable households. Whilst the energy price cap has come down, people will pay the same or more for energy as last winter. This is simply unaffordable for many www.citizensadvice.org.uk/about-us/our...

This is just one example of why scientific and technological progress on climate and environmental issues means little without the political will to implement the solutions, and why the class analysis that is often missing is vital to ensure the climate transition is a just one 🧪

It is lazy and dangerous politics to use the working class as an excuse not to pursue environmental policies, instead of designing ways to bring them along - from me in Left Foot Forward today leftfootforward.org/2023/08/how-...

I spent 3 days last week volunteering on a residential nature camp for young people run by Action for Conservation at Ilam. Every year I am amazed by the intelligence, eloquence and enthusiasm of the young people who attend these camps and their engagement gives me hope for the future 1/3

I can definitely recommend visiting small islands in the north of Norway in the summer

This is the kind of ecologically illiterate nonsense we are up against in the UK. It is like a greatest hits of both fundamental misunderstanding, and finding anything to blame but human actions https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/red-kites-should-never-have-been-reintroduced-to-britain/ 🧪

If any Scottish PhD students or postdocs are looking for policy experience, BES is funding an excellent fellowship in Scot Gov with a focus on regen agriculture or biodiversity in agriculture 🧪 www.britishecologicalsociety.org/policy/opportunities/bes-scottish-government-resas-policy-fellowships/

Anyone who doesn't like walking past patches of bramble flowers is lying

For my very first post here, have a picture of a black rhino looking very silly exhibiting the Flehmen grimace to get a smell to its vomeronasal (Jacobson's) organ