🐆 New research - Socio-economic shocks don't just impact human societies, but can also affect large carnivores ➡️ buff.ly/9NLJij4 @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @ranjmurali.bsky.social @tkuemmerle.bsky.social @alfredoromero.bsky.social @arashghoddousi.bsky.social

We developed a framework, rooted in social-ecological systems theory, to identify key pathways of how shocks impact large carnivores - and exemplify this framework with three case studies (jaguars, snow leopards, Asiatic cheetah) @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @arashghoddousi.bsky.social

We should vote only for those who promise to make billionaires history. We need a great levelling, through tax and redistribution. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The team spent three amazing days in the beautiful, autumnal #Harz during this year’s #labretreat. Workshops, hikes, talks, discussions, cooking sessions, board games, quizzes, laughter, progress and a whole lot of photos -> be ready for some behind-the-scenes-posts and photo dumps! #teambuilding

Very happy & proud to share that @alfredoromero.bsky.social will be joining the European Conference of Tropical Ecology 2026 as a Keynote Speaker!! @soctropecol.bsky.social 23 to 27 February 2026, University of Passau! gtoe2026-passau.de/index.html #ECTE2026 #conservation #ecology #speaker

Last weekend @alfredoromero.bsky.social and Marie Pratzer were invited to talk at the #LongNightofClimate in Berlin. They had a lot of fun and enjoyed this inspiring, interesting and important event! Film: "Bolivia Burning" look at some more information here: www.langenachtdesklimas.de #LNDK #BTS

Happily sharing that @alfredoromero.bsky.social and Marie Pratzer will join the panel of a film screening as part of the Long Night of Climate! 13.09.2025, Kulturfabrik Moabit (Berlin) Hope to see you there!! trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyyg... #LNDK2025, #Klimaschutz, #Nachhaltigkeit

5/ Lamentablemente empezó nuevamente la temporada de incendios en Bolivia. El gobierno ya la ha calificado como una “situación crítica”. El viceministro Juan Carlos Calvimontes señala que se activaron alertas roja y naranja en 66 municipios. es.mongabay.com/2025/08/ince...

Exciting PhD position to work on large mammals and land use in Europe with the @biogeoberlin.bsky.social lab at @humboldtuni.bsky.social

Aggressive attacks on science in Argentina by the Milei government (huge and apparently illegal funding cuts, discrediting rhetoric) causing a massive brain drain that will hurt the country for decades to come. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🐄🐂 Putting landless cattle on the map! 🐄🐂 New paper in Env. Research Letters on mapping cattle intensification from space - across South America's dry diagonal doi.org/10.1088/1748... @erc.europa.eu @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social @pedrofernandez91.bsky.social #SystemShift @biogeoberlin.bsky.social

Had some luck in the #Chaco - where we caught two #eirabarbaras on our #wildcameras!! @alfredoromero.bsky.social @tkuemmerle.bsky.social

We traced how soy and beef production in Argentina and Paraguay impact mammal diversity—and who’s driving it. Spoiler: It’s not just exports. Read the paper: shorturl.at/bpPEH @alfredoromero.bsky.social @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social @tkuemmerle.bsky.social @aguiarse86.bsky.social @sei.org

Understanding the impact of agricultural exports on the Gran #Chaco #biodiversity: new paper out in Global Environmental Change, led by Isabel Carpenter 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.gl... @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @sei.org @alfredoromero.bsky.social @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social @aguiarse86.bsky.social

So happy about more than one hundred participants at our online #workshop on zoom today!! Imogen Schwandner and @alfredoromero.bsky.social talked about using #AI to manage the data of #wildcameras #biogeography #chaco

Some impressions of @alfredoromero.bsky.social 's and Imogen Schwandner's field trip to the Chaco. #chaco #wildlife #survey #largecat #bolivia #conservation #biogeography #huberlin

This week, the EU Parliament is voting to downgrade the protection status of wolves, despite a clear lack of scientific evidence. To do so, it has to open up the Habitats Directive, a 30-year-old law that protects our nature. ✊ We can't let this happen. Keep your #HandsOffNature.

Listening to @alfredoromero.bsky.social and Imogen Schwandner's recap of their amazing survey adventure in the Chaco, Bolivia. A perfect way to spend our Friday - have a nice weekend!! #biogeography #chaco #bioconservation #survey #recap #research #humboldtuniversity

New paper led by @alfredoromero.bsky.social! Take a look here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @humboldtuni.bsky.social @tkuemmerle.bsky.social #mapping #biogeography #chaco #biodiversity #deforestation #wildlife

New paper out! Another great collab with @alfredoromero.bsky.social and @tkuemmerle.bsky.social from the Conservation Biogeography lab @humboldtuni.bsky.social, together with great scientists from the Chaco region in S America. So happy to be part of this! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Mapping the functional decline of top predators in the Gran #Chaco – a global deforestation hotspot. New paper led by @alfredoromero.bsky.social just out in Diversity & Distributions 👉https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.70003 @humboldtuni.bsky.social / @biogeoberlin.bsky.social

Dear President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu & EVP @teresaribera.bsky.social, Scientists are deeply concerned about the gradual rollback of the Green Deal. On behalf of >2000 scientists, please see our Open Letter calling to restore its ambition: zenodo.org/records/1427... Please could you meet us?

Published in Conservation Biology! Effectiveness of protected areas in the #Caucasus Mountains in preventing #rangeland #degradation Using greenness indicators in 52 PAs from 1988-2019 we showed that they’re ineffective in preventing degradation OA: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Doing field work in the Chiquitano Forest in Bolivia (below some pics) for our #ERC project #SystemShift (hu.berlin/SystemShift). We are running a massive camtrap & audio-recording survey - about 20+ landscapes (in Chaco and Chiquitania) with 35 cams + 5 audio recorders each.

Making starter packs seems to be the hot thing and I noticed that we don't have one for conservation scientists (🧪), so here we go go.bsky.app/3CZDnb2 So if you are an active researcher and would like to be added, reply here. Please no journalists or NGOs, there are other starting lists for that ;)

“There are about 700,000 people in the world currently facing catastrophic hunger, he added; 577,000 of them are in Gaza.”

We published 5,000 stories in English, Spanish, Indonesian, Portuguese, Hindi, & French this year, 7.01 million unique visitors/month read them Most popular topics @ the Global English news site? 8/10 were about biodiversity: fish, cats, and herps each featured in 2 of the top features:

Congratulations to Catalina Munteanu & Mihai Nitra for receiving the Marin Dracea Prize of the Romanian Academy of Sciences for our study on High Conservation Value Forests in #Romania! #OldGrowth 👉 doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

🔎 En Bolivia hay un fuerte conflicto entre las cooperativas auríferas y el gobierno luego de que se suspendiera la entrega de autorizaciones para la explotación de oro en áreas protegidas. Mineros cooperativistas piden que se anule esta decisión. ⬇️ es.mongabay.com/2023/12/coop...

#DíaInternacionalDelJaguar 🐅 El jaguar es una especie emblemática de América que está seriamente amenazada. ¿Qué se está haciendo en Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia para protegerlo? es.mongabay.com/2023/11/dia-...

🇧🇴🔎#INVESTIGACIÓN  #ParquesAvasallados Viajamos al Parque Nacional y Área Natural de Manejo Integrado Amboró y recogimos testimonios que señalan que foráneos cultivan coca, han establecido fábricas de cocaína y sacan madera en callapos. Los hallazgos en este especial.  es.mongabay.com/2023/11/boli...

Starting my posting here with the not unusual news of the recent and rapidly increasing pressures in Bolivian rich nature. Will try to post nicer news from time to time...

International #conservation #funding in #SouthAmerica tends to go to areas with high conservation value, not where threats (deforestation in our case) are high. New paper led by Siyu Qin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social just out in Biological Conservation --> doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...