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Alfredo Romero-Muñoz
@alfredoromero.bsky.social
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Conservation scientist, working on biodiversity responses to land use, hunting, and looking into opportunities for effective conservation in South American forests
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georgemonbiot.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...
I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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biogeoberlin.bsky.social
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
October 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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biogeoberlin.bsky.social
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
October 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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biogeoberlin.bsky.social
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
September 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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biogeoberlin.bsky.social
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
September 2, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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mariaisabeltorres.bsky.social
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.
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Incendios forestales avanzan en Bolivia: gobierno activa alerta en 66 municipios
Incendios forestales avanzan en Bolivia: gobierno activa alerta en 66 municipios. Seguimos de cerca el caso.
es.mongabay.com
August 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
alfredoromero.bsky.social
Exciting PhD position to work on large mammals and land use in Europe with the @biogeoberlin.bsky.social lab at @humboldtuni.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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tkuemmerle.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...
‘Scienticide’ in Argentina sparks huge protest by researchers
Hundreds of activists, some wearing gas masks, took to the streets to denounce the government for slashing science funding.
www.nature.com
June 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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tkuemmerle.bsky.social
🐄🐂 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
June 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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biogeoberlin.bsky.social
Had some luck in the #Chaco - where we caught two #eirabarbaras on our #wildcameras!!

@alfredoromero.bsky.social @tkuemmerle.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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biogeoberlin.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
June 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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tkuemmerle.bsky.social
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
Soybean shipped out of Paraguay (Photo: XINDE MARINE NEWS).
May 31, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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biogeoberlin.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
May 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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biogeoberlin.bsky.social
Some impressions of @alfredoromero.bsky.social 's and Imogen Schwandner's field trip to the Chaco.

#chaco #wildlife #survey #largecat #bolivia #conservation #biogeography #huberlin
March 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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wwf.eu
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.
May 5, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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biogeoberlin.bsky.social
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
February 22, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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biogeoberlin.bsky.social
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
Photo: D.Alarcón
February 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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anabenlop.bsky.social
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/...
Hunting and Habitat Destruction Drive Widespread Functional Declines of Top Predators in a Global Deforestation Hotspot
Aim We investigated the effects of habitat destruction and hunting on the functional decline of top predators, specifically jaguar and puma, in the Gran Chaco. Location The 1.1 million km2 South A...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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tkuemmerle.bsky.social
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
Photo (c): Daniel Alarcon
February 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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guypeer.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?
December 5, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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arashghoddousi.bsky.social
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/...
December 5, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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tkuemmerle.bsky.social
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.
November 23, 2024 at 11:38 PM
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martinjung.eu
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 ;)
November 11, 2024 at 7:44 PM
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genderhorizon.com
“There are about 700,000 people in the world currently facing catastrophic hunger, he added; 577,000 of them are in Gaza.”
The numbers that reveal the extent of the destruction in Gaza
From death tolls to destroyed buildings and lost hospital beds, these are the figures that cut through the fog of war
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2024 at 12:32 PM
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mongabay.com
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:
Our most read stories of 2023
In 2023, Mongabay published about 5,000 stories and more than 1,600 videos across English, Spanish, Indonesian, Portuguese, Hindi, and French. The posts on our websites attracted an average of 7.01 mi...
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December 26, 2023 at 10:06 PM