The videos are now live from our "Delivering Effective Conservation Practice" conference! 🎬 🔗 tinyurl.com/2saph669 150 in the room, 400 online – catch up on all the talks from our fantastic speakers.🌿

Thrilled to welcome Conservation Collective to our Evidence Champions network! 🏆 Conservation Collective are a global network of 21 locally led Foundations supporting grassroots action for nature. They now require grant applicants to consider the evidence behind their proposals. 🌍🙌

🐍 Don't let this eel research slip past you! A decade after 4 million young eels were released into Lake Ontario, a new paper in the Conservation Evidence Journal finds they're still surviving and growing, and locks are helping them bypass "impassable" dams. bit.ly/3NjAKGn

On Friday 9 January 2026 (10:20 to 17:30), Conservation Evidence, Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI), and @CSciPol are hosting a conference on Delivering Effective Conservation Practice. Register to join online! tinyurl.com/mrxkv4fc Agenda: tinyurl.com/y2nypf9y

Our 2026 Horizon Scan is out. 15 emerging issues for conservation — from TinyML transforming wildlife monitoring to weight-loss drugs reshaping land use to mirror biomolecules that don't exist in nature. We also revisited 2016. One prediction? "Artificial superintelligence." 😅

Weir removal is a positive step in rewilding urban rivers. A research paper by Don Catchment Rivers Trust, co-designed with volunteer citizen scientists, has demonstrated improved river health upstream of a weir removal, through the study of freshwater invertebrate indicators. Link bit.ly/4o8KrVv

Our research reveals a major challenge in aquatic mammal conservation: a biased lack of evidence. Studies are focused on too few regions and species, leaving many threatened animals un-researched. We need to fill these gaps to make conservation effective. dx.doi.org/10.1111/acv....

A world-first study from Paignton Zoo, @plymuni.bsky.social , and collaborators creates an "evidence map" for endangered species care! The database hosts evidence for 424 management interventions. Helping zoos worldwide make decisions based on science. 🦁 Link: doi.org/10.19227/jza... #Conservation

A fascinating new study from Perkins et al. @rspbscotland.bsky.social (published in Conservation Evidence Journal) reveals that autumn-sown 'green manure' crops are doing just that, supporting breeding corn buntings alongside other benefits for farmers! 🌱 🪶 ➡️ Read the full story: bit.ly/46mGgPT

Huge welcome to Essex Wildlife Trust @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social! 🎉 They've joined our Evidence Champion programme, showcasing their commitment to evidence-based conservation across their 8,400+ acres! We're thrilled to collaborate for a Wilder Essex.

🪸 Coral Conservation 🪸 bit.ly/42GnYG1 published by @openbookpublish.bsky.social. 🐚 From transplanting fragments onto giant clam shells or bommies To stimulating 🪸 coral growth using electricity ⚡, establishing MPAs to physically removing coral-eating snails 🐌. We have summarised the evidence!

Birdlife International just became an Evidence Champion! 🦜 Their new DataZone now links species directly to Conservation Evidence actions. Science-backed bird conservation at your fingertips! datazone.birdlife.org @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social #conservation

🚨UK's Voluntary Shift from Lead Shot in Pheasant Hunting Fails🚨 The SHOT-SWITCH research project reveals that despite commitments from UK shooting organizations in 2020 to transition away from lead ammunition by 2025, 99% of wild pheasants are STILL being shot with lead.

Paper in Conservation Evidence Journal bit.ly/3EXXR5g finds Trico deer repellent spray is effective at reducing deer browsing of hazel coppice with significantly fewer visible signs of browsing and significantly higher average re-growth for sprayed coppice than for an unsprayed control.

Check out our latest blog post about our newly released synopsis about eel conservation! How can we best conserve these mysterious and fascinating creatures? about.conservationevidence.com/2025/02/27/i...

Review of the butterfly and moth research on actions shows most evidence covers butterfly conservation, focuses on community-level responses, originates from UK and USA, from studies using least robust designs, assesses actions about agriculture. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Hello! With a group of @cambridgeuni.bsky.social students we are exploring the development of a tool to help create and evaluate Biodiversity Net Gain management plans to help people find the evidence they need to make these effective and deliverable. We want to know what you think!

📢 New research shows at the end of a five year voluntary transition from lead to non-lead shotgun ammunition ... ALL red grouse tested contained lead shot ❗ ➡️ Paper by Green et al. in the Conservation Evidence Journal bit.ly/40MS6hR finds.

Excited to share the new Conservation Evidence Toolkit! A guide to a collection of tools 🛠️ and resources 📃for embedding evidence in conservation and improving practice. Tools were co-designed with practitioners, funders, policymakers. Download here: tinyurl.com/CEevidencetool

Conservation funders urged to embrace evidence-based approaches for greater biodiversity recovery. 🌱 ⬆️ New research by 18 global wildlife conservation funders encourages evidence-based decision making when awarding grants. To read the full paper, visit: doi.org/10.1002/2688...

🚨News Flash! Bill Sutherland is speaking at @britishecolsoc.bsky.social about revolutionizing conservation with the power of evidence! 💪🌱Check out our latest blog featuring stories from our evidence champions on how they're using evidence. ✨ #BES2024 tinyurl.com/EviCham

How can we ensure that businesses engaging with biodiversity actually deliver for nature? 🤔 Our new blog post by Dr Tom White argues that we need evidence-based action to achieve this. 💪 tinyurl.com/CEBlogCE