Bird Flu Ravaged the World’s Largest Elephant Seal Population, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/s...

New study highlights the drastic, ongoing impact of bird flu on southern elephant seals at South Georgia. Significant mortality has now been recorded across many key breeding sites leading to increasing concerns about their conservation management. @ccgbam.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk

The Slender-billed Curlew was declared extinct in October 2025. At #AEWAMOP9, delegates paid tribute to it, with this rare taxidermied specimen on view. Read personal reflections and testimonies from those who searched for, studied, and cared deeply about it: www.unep-aewa.org/en/news/reme...

New paper: Culture and conservation in baleen whales @ellengarland.bsky.social, @petercorkeron.bsky.social, Mike Noad, Briana Abrahms, @jennyallen13.bsky.social, @rconstantine.bsky.social, @lrendell.bsky.social, Renata Sousa-Lima, Kate Stafford, @emma-carroll.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

Why are Procellariiform seabirds most diverse in the Southern Hemisphere? Our study found that wind patterns and time since evolutionary origin best explain the extratropical peak in breeding species richness of these remarkable seabirds. 🐦💨 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

[COMMENTARY] This October, as delegates gather to discuss CCAMLR priorities, the authors of a new commentary argue, “At stake is more than a fishing rule, but also the commitment to manage fisheries proactively, rather than reactively.” ** Views are authors'.

Fascinating! 😍 Still so much to discover and learn!

New in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com: our review of the influence of #seabirds, via their nutrient transfer, on islands & adjacent marine ecosystems 🐦🏝️🪸 We highlight knowledge gaps & future directions ✨ "The circular seabird economy is critical for oceans, islands and people": doi.org/10.1038/s443...

the IUCN have passed the Longevity Conservation motion put forward to them by @kellerfish.bsky.social and @pili-scotland.bsky.social and based on the paper we wrote on the value of older individuals in animal societies. www.cdu.edu.au/news/global-...

HPAI H5N1 likely linked to elephant seal mortality on sub-Antarctic Heard Island

Ancient Murijuga cultural depictions of locally extinct Tasmanian devils and Thylacines

Explore the complex relationships between various challenges to achieving transformative change in this graphic from the IPBES #TransformativeChange Summary for Policymakers. 📊 Find out more: https://www.ipbes.net/transformative-change/media-release

Our Career Development Fellowships are still open for applications. This scheme provides early career scientists from underrepresented groups with research funding and training opportunities to build a strong base for a successful research career: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/caree...

Bit of a extratropical cyclone to the south of Tasmania/ Lutruwita today. Been blowing the proverbial all day and probably all tomorrow too. Over it 😤

Opportunity for ecosystem-based fisheries management in northern European waters

“In her pioneering studies in the lush rainforest of Tanzania’s Gombe Stream Game Reserve, now a national park, Goodall noted that the most successful chimp leaders were gentle, caring and familial.” @mireyamayor.bsky.social @theconversation.com

If you think the seasons are feeling… different, you may be right. Our new review in Science (@science.org) shows that Earth’s changing rhythms could have major and underestimated consequences for life on Earth. 🌍🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Five of Earth’s vital systems are close to a point of irreversible change, warns a new report released by a global network of scientists ahead of the upcoming U.N. climate change conference in Brazil.

A new IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas report, co-authored by WCS and launched at #IUCNcongress, offers compelling case studies on how to achieve large-scale conservation in an increasingly complex world. bit.ly/478ALTS

Many of California’s marine mammals have made remarkable recoveries over the last 50 years since bipartisan passage of the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act. But federal protections which made these recoveries possible could be substantially weakened if proposed amendments to the Act move ahead.

Jane Goodall, who revealed the intimate lives of chimpanzees and gave the modern world a language of hope, has died at the age of 91. “Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference,” she told audiences. Those words remain her truest epitaph.

New Study Bolsters Case for Predator-Focused Management of Antarctic Krill Fishery @pewresearch.org

I am pleased to share our new review paper detailing killer whale interactions with commercial fisheries in Frontiers in Marine Science! www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

🌍🦋 Across 6 continents, 21 sites & 15,000 paper moths, we joined a worldwide experiment led by @wlallen.bsky.social & Iliana Medina, showing how ecological context shapes the evolution of animal colouration. Proud to be part of this global team effort: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Where have the hooded seals gone on the melting ice floes? @theconvo-bot.bsky.social

Australia’s veterinary medicine regulator has approved a vaccine to protect koalas from chlamydia, one of the leading causes of koala infertility and death. Researchers found the single-dose vaccine reduced mortality in wild koalas by at least 65%.

In 2023, California relocated beavers for the first time in more than seven decades. The moves and the state’s broader beaver restoration program are the result of decades of advocacy to change an adversarial relationship to one focused on beaver conservation and the benefits beavers can provide.

The Society for Conservation Biology - Marine Global Program is excited to announce that #IMCC8 will take place in #Edinburgh, Scotland from November 13-17, 2026! Join us to help Make Marine Science Matter! #marinescience #conservation #conference

One in six species on Earth experienced extraordinarily high temperatures across more than 25% of their range in 2024--the hottest year on record. For most, this was the second year of extreme heat, likely compounding risks. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Five forecasts early climate models got right

The SA and Federal Governments will trial bubble curtains to protect a section of the giant cuttlefish breeding site in the Upper Spencer Gulf from the algal bloom 🦑 biodiversitycouncil.... #GiantCuttlefish #SpencerGulf #AlgalBloom #MarineConservation #Oceans #Wildlife

How did an endangered seal end up in a landlocked lake in Finland? A new Science Sessions episode reveals the Saimaa ringed seal's distinct evolutionary history, one that began long before Lake Saimaa existed. Listen now: www.pnas.org/post/podcast...

Big-eyed species are especially vulnerable to the effects of light pollution, a citizen-science effort shows go.nature.com/4mXMkTX

southern right #whales in #NZ & #Australia are a conservation success story & our new paper shows their offshore feeding grounds if the #highseastreaty #bbnj is ratified we can protect that, plus sharks, seabirds and other marine predators: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"evidence is emerging for rapid, interacting and sometimes self-perpetuating changes in the Antarctic environment" New review out today led by @climatenerilie.bsky.social brings together the rapid changes unfolding in the Antarctic. It's powerful, and sobering, reading.

New today: Critical research published in @nature.com on the abrupt and alarming changes being observed in #Antarctica and the surrounding Southern Ocean, led by Prof. @climatenerilie.bsky.social, with @profmattengland.bsky.social and colleagues ⬇️ theconversation.com/from-sea-ice...

New research shows common mynas sang fewer and less complex songs after a bad night’s sleep. Poor-quality song could affect a bird’s ability to reproduce and survive.

Record marine heat waves in 2023 covered 96% of oceans, lasted four times longer than average phys.org/news/2025-07...

In his National Press Club address, Former Treasury Secretary Ken Henry made the case for urgent, ambitious nature law reform to boost productivity while saving species.

Murujuga is Australia’s 21st world heritage property, but only the second property listed exclusively for its Indigenous cultural values.

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_

🌍 Call for Nominations! IPBES invites #Indigenous Peoples and local community members to join a November 2025 workshop in Canada in response to the findings of the Review of Indigenous and Local Knowledge in IPBES. 🧪 🗓️15 July 🔗Details on the nomination process: http://bit.ly/3HW2Uoj

📢 The 12th SCAR Open Science Conference is heading to Oslo, Norway, 10–14 August 2026 🇳🇴! The call for sessions, symposia, workshops & more is now open and we can't wait to hear from you. 🗓️ Deadlines: 31 Aug 2025 / 31 Jan 2026 Let’s shape #SCAR2026 together. scar.org/scar-news/os...

Drastic declines in Antarctic seal numbers confirmed by long-term monitoring research at Signy Island 🇦🇶 #bas #CCAMLR

Climate breakdown, biodiversity loss and political apathy put humanity at grave risk, threatens human lives, livelihoods globally. In may seem challenging, but a great article outlines six actions for ecologists in times of planetary crisis @anthropocenebio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Some ocean areas are especially vulnerable and rich in life. A new study shows how designating them as Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas PSSAs could help the #BBNJ Treaty better protect biodiversity on the High Seas. 🔗 Full study: buff.ly/MIxUWVl