How do you know whether or not your conservation monitoring program is helping you to deliver outcomes? We have made a checklist of 15 distinct reasons - some more directly connected to outcomes than others.

Our rapid assessment of the #EPBC Act reform package that's set to pass the senate theconversation.com/long-sought-... - Led by Justine Bell-James, with @drphilmccormack.bsky.social @yungenchee.bsky.social and me. #ESA2025 @aunz.theconversation.com @biodivcouncil.bsky.social @ecolsocaus.bsky.social

Cane toads are advancing on WA's unique Pilbara region. @judydunlop.bsky.social and her team have a plan to stop them! @ecolsocaus.bsky.social #ESA2025 🌏 we're hearing about the Toad Containment Zone - creating a waterless barrier across the Pilbara to stop the invasion. 🐸

Congratulations to the ESA Gold Medal Award winner Dr Suzanne Prober 👏 #ESA2025

“Bold actions for a resilient future” is the theme of the #ESA2025 conference @ecolsocaus.bsky.social . At 10:30am I will give my talk in the session on “extreme weather” and provide the answer to the question - it is 6, if you can’t get there or have better places to be.

Spider expert reaches milestone of naming 1000 species www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Annual salary for a Professor at the ANU in 2025 is $227,921 services.anu.edu.au/human-resour... , yet Genevieve Bell will be getting over *double* that, plus a $400k golden handshake for VC, PLUS $200k in research funds. Yet apparently ANU is in a budget crisis? Absolute rot in uni governance

Leading conservation, environmental, policy, economic, and legal experts speak up and out about the Group of Eight's position on #EPBC Act reforms. Thank you to all involved! Full statement www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #ESA2025

Fab talk from @megcevans.bsky.social about government trying to use capitalism (for profit model) to attempt to solve problems created by capitalism (environmental damage and biodiversity loss). But $2bn to solve biodiversity crisis isn't much compared to many other publicly funded things. #esa2025

Do I see a tiny uptick in the TSX? Has the inexorable decline stopped, or is it just a wobble on the path to mass extinction? Www.tsx.org.au

And this morning there was Peregrine Falcon at uni footbridge, Black Cockies are about, two Night Heron behind zoo

🌳🌿💚 Monday morning good news story! Following strong opposition from local councils & residents, Alcoa has shelved its plans to explore the Perth Hills #jarrah #forests for its #bauxite mining expansion... for now at least. #wildoz #conservation #ozflora #trees www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

For attendees of #ESA2025 that might be interested.

#esa2025 Keynote presentation from Tiahni Adamson #BushHeritage speaking about #FirstNations governance and #RightWay science. First Nations leadership is not only the right thing to do but leads to more effective #ecological outcomes

For those who love plants, many groups have been restoring the vegetation of the Adelaide Plains, once harbouring 750 species! Head east along the river towards the St Peter’s billabong. Some things in flower: Linum marginale, Goodenia amplexans (strong smell) and Malva #ESA2025

We donate $25,000 a year to Nature Glenelg Trust. They do remarkable on-ground work for biodiversity in the places that we love #ESA2025. Eaglehawk waterhole, an NGT property, south of Bordertown, probably has South Australia’s best woodland bird diversity.

Looking for a nice bird, flower, Rakali, reptile, frog walk at #ESA2025 this week - head to the St Peter’s billabong @ecolsocaus.bsky.social - darter, water skink, c30 bird species, and lots of native plants. Little grassbird and reed warbler nesting.

Register now if you’d like to be a judge for student presentations at #ESA2025 👇

The conference app & Bluesky are the place to be for any live updates. Follow the #ESA2025 feed to see everyone's posts tinyurl.com/bdh9asy2 - use the hashtag to be featured!

Busting all our assumptions about sexual dimorphism, bird colour and song, Kristal Cain gets #AOC2025 off to a rollicking start!

A few home truths about the orange-bellied parrot, an excellent #AOC2025 plenary from @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social

Yet another Australian extinction - www.theguardian.com/environment/.... Ironically the federal government is still allowing the destruction of the habitat for nationally listed threatened species - species such as the Eyre Peninsula southern emuwren and koala #biodiversity #murraywatt

Ok, here’s my starter pack! go.bsky.app/4ASwaLv Non-exhaustive list!

“Positive talks” with the Coalition while “even the select group of environment and industry lobby groups who meet weekly with Watt to discuss EPBC reform are yet to see draft legislation”. Albanese and Watt are shitting on us, folks.

Female Powerful Owl in a Brisbane conservation park. Two guys with 2 dogs walked right under her but didn't notice her and her partner on the same branch. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

New blog: As a grant peer reviewer I consider Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) even if the scheme doesn't list EDI criteria. Key is to tie the selection criteria to EDI. This is how I do it mathemagicalconservation.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/a... @katehelmstedt.bsky.social @hugepossum.bsky.social

Excellent advice from Hugh Possingham on monitoring conservation projects and why most Monitoring and Evaluation is flawed. youtu.be/qa6Ewt-W5mU?...

We illustrate this with the Putumayo Trinational Corridor (Colombia, Ecuador & Peru). There, structured decision-making helped align shared goals and coordinate transboundary actions to conserve biodiversity while strengthening local communities.

Imagine an Amazon where nations work together, rivers still fly moisture to the Andes, jaguars roam safely, and Indigenous voices guide decisions. 🌿✨ Our new @pnas.org piece explores how this future can be real. 🔗 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 🧵👇 ¡Arículo en español en el material suplementario!

Join us for the 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗔𝗔𝗥𝗘𝗦 𝗪𝗔 & 𝗖𝗘𝗘𝗣 𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆 𝗟𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 with Prof. Hugh Possingham @hugepossum.bsky.social, exploring Impact, failure, and the case for Theory of Change 📅 16 September 2025 🕑 14:00 AWST (Perth) 💻 Online Webinar 👉 Register here: tinyurl.com/aareswa25 #UWA‬ #AARES

Natalie Kyriacou is the founder of the environmental organization My Green World, and has speaks on this episode of Mongabay’s podcast about the aim of the book, her thoughts on real solutions to our ecological problems, what she wishes more people understood about nature.

Congestion charging in London caused an average of 7% drop in car ownership in affected areas (outer London near the charging boundary). If we want fewer cars in our streets, and all the benefits that brings, this is one of the tools that we know works. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Air pollution from oil and gas causes more than 90,000 premature deaths and sickens hundreds of thousands of people across the US each year, a new study shows..." If MAHA were anything other than dipshit reactionary fantasies & conspiracy theories, it would focus overwhelmingly on air pollution.

September 19 and 20, I’ll be joining a fab group of speakers at the second GROUNDED festival. Part scientific conference, part field day, part food festival. There are so many win-wins in the agriculture and environment space—come along and help celebrate them! groundedaustralia.com.au

Is Labour betraying its own members? youtu.be/RZ9Er3rLUGU?... Labour members want progressive change – from scrapping the two-child cap to stopping arms sales to Israel. The leadership is ignoring them. This video asks: what is Labour afraid of, and what must change?

🔦 A recent publication by @ec.europa.eu placed BioAgora in the spotlight! 🔄 We were listed as a cross-cutting initiative strengthening the EU's science-policy interface on the road to #TransformativeChange4Biodiversity. 🔗 bioagora.eu/news/europea... #Biodiversity #ForNature #ForOurPlanet

Hi! We're new here but maybe you followed us on X! We're @birdlifeoz.bsky.social's Beach-nesting Birds team - working to give birds that nest on Australian beaches a chance to raise their young 🐥 We've uploaded our past X posts, so you can learn about our work if you didn't know us! #plovers

Last chance to register for BirdLife Australia's Beach-nesting Birds Conference! Registrations close Sunday 13th May! Where: Anglesea, Victoria When: May 31st - June 2nd Conference Program:

Excited for our annual conference on modeling for ecology, biodiversity, sustainability, environment, water, energy, climate, fisheries, forestry, & ag. Love all the cool #math & stats used to save the world. Join us in Stellenbosch 2026. 🌍#MathSky @hugepossum.bsky.social @katehelmstedt.bsky.social

SCCS 2026 has opened for applications! 📣Spread the word! It will be our 25th conference in Cambridge and will take place between 31 March – 2 April 2026. Check out the website for more info and to apply: www.sccs-cam.org.

Please share: PhD scholarship opportunity in mathematical ecology on the value of information for improving ecological management, open to international students, with a great team @hugepossum.bsky.social, Katriona Shea, Kate Helmstedt, & me at UQ, Australia 🌍 🧮, study.uq.edu.au/study-option...

Always devastating to “see” Australia’s extinct fauna. Gone forever. John Woinarski presenting the evidence for the impact of invasive species, esp cats and foxes, on native mammals. #iccb2025

#iccb2025 biodiversity and carbon planting day with Brisbane Sustainability Agency #ArcherfieldWetlands Getting in a few thousand plants and finding lots of bird species

As the 9th anniversary of the #Brexit referendum approaches, new polling shows: 🇪🇺 Large majority see Brexit as a mistake and failure 🇬🇧 Large majority blame Brexiters for the failure 🇪🇺🇬🇧 Clear majority want to #RejoinEU Let's get on with it! yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

Help @hugepossum.bsky.social plant trees at Archerfield Wetlands on Saturday! Details at the SCBO booth.

Besides attending super interesting presentations, it is such a great pleasure to meet old friends/colleagues at #ICCB2025 @hugepossum.bsky.social @robsalgo.bsky.social @mariabeger.bsky.social

#ICCB2025 comedy at a conference! What more could you want??

"Felicity Wade, the national co-convener of the Labor Environment Action Network, was confident Watt could “walk the line”, listening to business without losing sight of why the legislation existed." Not exactly words that inspire confidence... #EPBC

Can’t believe this is finally happening after 2 years of hard work by so many people! #ICCB2025