A new #EUROLYNX paper out on variability in the movement and foraging behaviour of female Eurasian #lynx during the denning season across Europe! 🐈 🐾Movement metrics and kill-to-den distances were evaluated using GPS data from two climatic regions. 📄Read more here: doi.org/10.1002/oik....

We could have been providing military aid to Ukraine. We could have been building our partnerships in the Pacific. We could have strengthened Europe’s defense industrial base. We could have helped build state capacity in South America. What a fucking disaster this has all been.

They just hit a university

North Cork Creameries is a member of Bord Bia's 'Origin Green' greenwashing programme despite 125 non-compliance notices since 2020 and listing on the EPA's top polluter watchlist 🙈 www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

A brilliant piece by @ellamcsweeney.bsky.social in the @irishtimes.com this morning highlights the lack of enforcement of environmental legislation. North Cork Creameries (a member of Bord Bia’s Origin Green programme) has been issued with 125 non-compliance notices since 2020.

#BirdStudy welcomes submissions on all aspects of #ornithology, eg. distribution/abundance patterns; movements/dispersal; habitat effects; census, marking & tracking, behaviour; conservation. Main focus Europe, Atlantic, Afro-Palearctic Flyway, N Africa, but useful papers considered from any region.

Russian drones violated Polish airspace on the night of Sept 9/10 in what NATO & European officials have suggested was an intentional Russian incursion.The large number of Russian drones that violated Polish airspace suggests that this was likely an intentional Russian effort. understandingwar.org

I respect Anil so I want to talk seriously about harm reduction and public health messaging. First let me acknowledge that yes, many regular, not-super-online people are trying out AI tools. Of course they are! It's been aggressively pushed into everything and given heavy institutional support.

2025. Does hunting benefit wildlife conservation? "animal welfare theorists might raise ethical questions about the legitimacy of some or all forms of hunting, even if it benefits conservation" esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.

I'm terrible at updating you all on conservation and ecology work, but I can promise you this: It is the biggest year for Irish camera trapping since records began, and it's not even close. Why is this important? With this data, we can guide management and learn more about Irish nature.

Travelling outside the EU this summer? You can count on the EU for help! If something goes wrong, and your country does not have an embassy or consulate in the country that you are travelling to, you can get help from another EU country that does - your right as an EU citizen. 🔗 europa.eu/!7nGx9R

Deer, seals, the whole bunch... People will willfully ignore signage and instructions for a photo. This is also wildlife crime. The only thing for it is wardens, fines, and a culture of shaming those who believe they should be allowed to approach, feed, or pick up wildlife for fun.

Lynx could thrive in Northumberland with most in area supporting return www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Yes trophy hunting is weird and unpleasant, but money from hunting funds the conservation of more land in Sub-Saharan Africa than is conserved in national parks. It is not as simple as most keyboard-jockeys from Europe or the USA think.

Kenya again.

Interested in understanding how public access to nature can be balanced with wildlife conservation? Check out Tom's thread on the long-running project from our English Policy Group exploring this very topic 🌳🚶

Many don't realise that USFWS and USAID supported conservation work all across the world, and now the programmes protecting nature in the world's wildest places are stuggling to adapt... www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

2025 - Snow leopard prey selection on the mountain‐adapted ibex: seasonal switching between prime‐aged males and newborn kids. zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

OMG reintroducing animals is not rewilding Still seeing publicity for reintroductions making this error Based, I think, on an assumption that the reintroduction will somehow drive ecosystems to become more wild

A bit early to advertise, but why not... 👉 I will be recruiting a post-doc to work on gut microbiome variation in wild ungulates starting at some point in 2026. Strong expertise with shotgun data and host phenotype-microbiome associations would be very valuable. Email me to discuss!

JOB ALERT 🚨 Tenure-track assistant professor in population genetics, comparative genomics and/or bioinformatics applied to biodiversity monitoring and conservation biology at Aarhus University, Denmark. Aarhus is super nice y'all. Apply! 🧪 🌍 🧬 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs tech.au.dk/en/about-the...

🔴 Russian forces conducted another massive attack on Ukraine overnight. The main target of the attack was Kyiv. Preliminary reports suggest Shahed drones, Iskander-K missiles, and decoy drones were deployed.

Hiring/Seeking a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, species range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/Bzzdt

Despite a lack of threats, utility-scale solar energy still repels pronghorn. Read the full story 👇

Despite concerted efforts in Ireland to prevent harmful deer-feeding by the public in city and national parks, this kind of content is rampant in Facebook groups and cheered on by people blind to the potential harm being done... doi.org/10.1111/csp2...

A small milestone passed today as I prepare the latest batch of rewilding plans

Sind Sie Jäger in Deutschland, oder kennen Sie einen? Wir suchen Teilnehmer*innen, die uns bei unserer Forschung zum Thema Wildschwein und ASP unterstützen! 🐗 Wir freuen uns über jeden, der sich an diesem anonymen Fragebogen beteiligt: questionpro.eu/a/TakeSurvey...

Huge self-inflicted sabotage of Ukraine's path towards EU integration! Whether civil society w EU backing manages to stop this attack on the anticorruption institutions will determine the future strength of EU conditionality and anticorruption efforts. If Zelensky signs the law, it'll signal that..

Ukraine is under russian missile and drone attack right now ‼️

Luckily I was in the countryside and avoided this, but most of the civilian population of "safe" western Ukraine were just subject to a hail of drones and missiles by their terrorist neighbours

In the abandoned city of Pripyat, in the Ukrainian Chornobyl Exclusion Zone 🇺🇦 A number of beautiful murals of wildlife.

Morning in Lviv, Ukraine.

After a couple of years, I'm happy to be back in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone for wildlife monitoring in one of Europe's most unique places! I'm even happier about just being in Ukraine 🇺🇦

Hey Camera Trappers 📸🐺🐗🦌🦅Snapshot Europe is back for 2025! Join us in deploying cameras this Sept-Oct. Help build a crucial snapshot of European biodiversity. Learn more & express interest here ▶️ app.wildlifeinsights.org/initiatives/... Spread the word and help expand our community across Europe🙏

One single night out of a thousand

Other examples are Euromammals euromammals.org or bluecorridors.org

Irish people applying for US visas must now detail all social media accounts they've used in past five years, according to requirements outlined today by the US embassy in Dublin.

Plenty of deer calves up and moving about at the moment. 📍 Wicklow Mountains, Ireland

"The bill directs what is likely the largest single sale of national public lands in modern history to help cut taxes for the richest people in the country....all without hearings, debate or public input." wilderness.org/articles/med...

Another lynx paper hot off the press!🔥Exploring the ecological feasibility of restoring Eurasian lynx to Great Britain 🐾 A well-planned, legal, lynx reintroduction could be feasible, provided there is acceptance in key stakeholder groups. 📰Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

Marchand: compared to those born to a bighorn ewe when she's young, lambs born when she's old have shorter lives, wean fewer lambs. At any age, ewes that live longer have lambs that live longer and have higher reproductive success. url:https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/36/4/araf046/8126721

Conservationists are warning of an increase in recent weeks of the nesting sites of endangered breeding waders, such as the curlew, being destroyed by dogs.

Ancient Carpathian beech forest? No, a small corner of county Wicklow, Ireland 🇮🇪🌳

MEGA paper led by my colleague Joe Premier of @wild-ecol-cons.bsky.social, in collaboration with the Lifescape Project. "Exploring the ecological feasibility of restoring Eurasian lynx to Great Britain using spatially explicit individual-based modelling" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I don't want to be that guy. But I think Israel might actually strike Greta Thunberg and the other activists to stop them. Israel don't care about tens of thousands of women and children, so why would they care about activists?

More and more images are emerging that show how intense the contamination with fibre optic cabling can be in frontline areas of #Ukraine. Our recent post examines the risks this poses to wildlife and to the wider environment ceobs.org/plastic-poll... #FPVDrones

Russians could always just go home. It’s the fastest way to end the war.

⚠️ BTO research predicts devastating declines in seabird populations in Britain & Ireland under future climate change. Some species face staggering losses by 2050, with up to 90% declines for Puffin and more than 70% declines for Arctic Tern and Fulmar. ➡️ bit.ly/seabirds-climate #Ornithology