check this out from @ipbes.net - currently recruiting experts for the second global assessment 🦜🕷️🐼 🌴🦋🐘🦞🪸🐠 www.ipbes.net/second-globa...

Sad News. RIP James Ferguson. A tribute by @brambuscher.bsky.social

The UN’s new biodiversity deal aims to protect 30% of Earth by 2030—but does it tackle the root causes of nature’s destruction? Without addressing economic expansion, pollution & systemic issues, conservation alone won’t be enough. #Biodiversity #NatureCrisis theconversation.com/biodiversity...

Colleagues, A decade in the making, I’d like to share with you my new book entitled, 'For the Sake of Forests and God: Governing Life and Livelihood in the Philippine Uplands'. From the Cornell University Press webpage: lnkd.in/ghyuxMKT

South Africa’s rare succulent plants are threatened by illegal trade – how to stop it. New article by @jaredmargulies.bsky.social and I on ongoing research into illegal succulent supply and demand networks theconversation.com/south-africa...

#ICYMI: The @mybisa.bsky.social virtual conference at the University of Sheffield is next week! There is still time to register as an observer and to join RIS for a meet the editors chat. Find out more about the conference & register👉https://virtualconference.bisa.ac.uk

An important project on #conservationjustice in Europe "EU has committed to expand the strict protection of nature to 10 per cent of Europe’s land by 2030". What would that mean for land, people and nature? @georgemonbiot.bsky.social and its research team will look at it soon.

For a brief newspiece on #GreenFrontier project on conservation frontiers in Europe's peripheries, check www.wur.nl/en/newsartic...

A recent study in the Maasai Mara reveals that cattle grazing did not reduce forage quality or quantity, nor deter wildlife from grazing, challenging traditional conservationist view #justconservation #indigenousrights news.mongabay.com/2024/11/can-...

Narco-traffickers establishing airstrips on Indigenous territories, leading to deforestation and violence @mongabay.bsky.social news.mongabay.com/custom-story...

Great piece on the excellent & thorough research by Dr Trishant Simlai @planetarypraxis.bsky.social on misuse of conservation drones & camera traps to harass women. tribune.com.pk/story/251128...

After the dangerous agreement on the carbon market at #COP29, the Durban Group for Climate Justice met again #carbonmarkets #falsesolutions #climatejustice reddmonitor.substack.com/p/as-cop29-e...