🦏 New #OpenAccess article in Biological Conservation! 'Community-based #conservation surveillance: an ethnographic analysis of the drivers & obstacles of local reporting on rhino & plains game poaching in Namibia' www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...

"The Power of Praising #Bees 🐝" – new article in 'Doek! A Literary Magazine From Namibia' @doeklitmag, written with my longstanding Namibian research collaborator, Welhemina Suro Ganuses of @SRTNamibia 🦏 doeklitmag.com/the-power-o...

#openaccess version now available 🙂 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Pretty excited that this co-authored Essay in @ConBiology is out: "Intimidation as epistemological violence against social science #conservation research" It should be #openaccess, but currently isn't for some reason. It can be read on ResearchGate though: link shared below.

☮️ 🇺🇦 🌻New article in the J. of #HumanRights & the #Environment, engaging with ☢️ heightened nuclear threats in context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ⛽ frictions between fossil-fuel & nuclear economies 🇳🇦 & contexts of #genocide, building on historical research in #Namibia

Tomorrow, finally, I will be defending my doctoral dissertation! Welcome at 13: Karolina Eskelin hall U3032, Fabianinkatu 33, or helsinki.zoom.us/j/65408255215

We've made it to this platform too! Follow us to get the latest cutting-edge political ecology contributions (all OA with ZERO corporate profit)- and occasional rants against corporate publishing : journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/ @pollenetwork.bsky.social

A great article on Michel Foucault masterwork on discipline and power from 1975.

Interesting opportunity for students interesting on #environmentalhumanity and #politicalecology in African context!

Brilliant work on plants of #Namibia 💚

🌳 In 2011, the Ugamaa Community Resource Team helped the Hadzabe to secure land rights for part of their territory. 🔥 With support from The Nature Conservancy. 💲 In 2012, Carbon Tanzania set up a REDD project on the Hadzabe's land. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/investigat...

⬇️A quite subtle piece on #trophyhunting & #socialjustice "If community benefits are minimal, #trophyhunting is perceived as a #colonial pursuit, and genuine grassroots participation in decision-making is lacking, is the [social justice] argument valid?" therevelator.org/greenwashing...

We've published another new article 'online first' in 'Global Environment'; Martin Kalb on 'Mules, Global Networks, and Settler Colonialism in German Southwest Africa, 1884–1915': doi.org/10.3828/whpg... #envhist #africa #colonialism @globalenvironment.bsky.social

#Namibia 'n conservancies fight to block mining threat to #Rhinos Two Namibian community conservancies and a tourism operator have turned to the courts to block development of a tin mine.. news.mongabay.com/2024/12/nami...

☀️New film! made through the Future Pasts (www.futurepasts.net) & Etosha-Kunene Histories (www.etosha-kunene-histories.net) projects. Watch “ǂNūkhoe Xûn / Damara Material Culture” led by the Hoanib Culture Group in north-west #Namibia vimeo.com/1035751265

An article I didn't want to write: 'On the #politicalontology of making things up in #politicalecology critique: An engagement with Bormpoudakis (2019) and Knudsen (2023)' J. of Political Ecology ⬇️ journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/...

Remembering #ClaremontRoad, #Leyton ... the era of the Criminal Justice Act, targeting illegal raves, squatters and Travellers... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

📢 #Botswana journalist uncovers who really benefits from #TrophyHunting (spoiler alert: not the local communities) & how plagued the industry is by #corruption, mismanagement & conflicts of interest‼️ 👉 guardiansun.co.bw/news/middlem... @siansullivan.bsky.social @mongabay.bsky.social

“The depth of the horror [in Gaza] surpasses our ability to describe it,” said James Elder, a spokesperson with the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef). “I’ve not seen that level of devastation in 20 years with the UN."

🦁 #Hunting for #conservation: New J. Conservation Biology book review of - "Hunting Wildlife in the Tropics and Subtropics" by Julia Fa, Stephan Funk & Robert Nasi + - "Trophy Hunting" by @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social & @adamhartscience.bsky.social #FreeAccess ⬇️ 🌍 🌎 🌏 doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

Looking forward to discussing Ben Neimark's new book: "Hottest of the Hotspots: The Rise of Eco-precarious #Conservation Labor in #Madagascar" #bioprospecting #biopiracy #biodiversityoffsetting #extractivism #ethnobotany 🌿 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/internatio...

Call for papers for @digitalclimate.bsky.social panel at RGS-IBG conference 2024! #climateadaptation #Indigenousknowledge #decolonisation

Areas of Apurinã territory in Brazil's southern Amazonas state were sold under an NFT project that promised to preserve forest & generate carbon credits 🌎 Indigenous communities were not properly consulted The company claims it's not “properly demarcated Indigenous land” but prosecutors disagree:

Octopus reveal lost history of Antarctica 🧪🦑🌎 www.science.org/content/arti...

🎈Happy to share the 4min trailer from our new Future Pasts and Etosha-Kunene Histories research film “Lands That History Forgot”. Full film on its way soon. #oralhistory #memorymapping #Namibia #conservation vimeo.com/890049250

Since it's that #UNFCCC #COP time of year, check out our #openaccess book "Negotiating #ClimateChange in Crisis" - a collection of essays by social scientists-humanities scholars-activists published just before #COP26 #geosky #greensky #COP28 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

Since it's that #UNFCCC #COP time of year, check out our #openaccess book "Negotiating #ClimateChange in Crisis" - a collection of essays by social scientists-humanities scholars-activists published just before #COP26 #geosky #greensky #COP28 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

Thanks to @siansullivan.bsky.social for alerting me to this on that other increasingly horrible platform.

Saleem's last article, written w/ @farhana.bsky.social "Climate accountability is a shared duty, an intricate web of actions, decisions and commitments ... it’s the bedrock of our fight against the climate crisis", along with curtailing "influence of the fossil fuel industry in climate policies."

Having created the world-leading dubious carbon credit standard for the offsetting market, featuring a seemingly endless stream of scandalous failed projects worldwide, Verra, is now setting its sights on creating a Nature Framework for how projects can generate Nature Credits What can go wrong?