Augustino E. Mwakipesile
@augustinoem.bsky.social
Politics of Conservation-Environment-Geography, Wildlife Trade, Societal Conservation, Socio-Ecology Landscape, Environmental Assessment.
Research, Consultancy & Teaching, University of Dodoma www.udom.ac.tz
Research, Consultancy & Teaching, University of Dodoma www.udom.ac.tz
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A 1% wealth tax + 10% income tax on Africa’s richest 1% could raise $66 billion a year – enough to fund free quality education and universal access to electricity. Let’s do it. Ramaphosa, #BeOurChampion to #TaxTheSuperRich
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
A 1% wealth tax + 10% income tax on Africa’s richest 1% could raise $66 billion a year – enough to fund free quality education and universal access to electricity. Let’s do it. Ramaphosa, #BeOurChampion to #TaxTheSuperRich
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BREAKING: A person in the richest 0.1% produces more carbon pollution in a day than someone in the bottom 50% produces all year.
Same pollution. Different worlds. But only one pays the price.
👉Read Oxfam's new #ClimatePlunder report to learn more. oxf.am/climateplund...
#MakeRichPollutersPay
Same pollution. Different worlds. But only one pays the price.
👉Read Oxfam's new #ClimatePlunder report to learn more. oxf.am/climateplund...
#MakeRichPollutersPay
November 5, 2025 at 4:00 AM
BREAKING: A person in the richest 0.1% produces more carbon pollution in a day than someone in the bottom 50% produces all year.
Same pollution. Different worlds. But only one pays the price.
👉Read Oxfam's new #ClimatePlunder report to learn more. oxf.am/climateplund...
#MakeRichPollutersPay
Same pollution. Different worlds. But only one pays the price.
👉Read Oxfam's new #ClimatePlunder report to learn more. oxf.am/climateplund...
#MakeRichPollutersPay
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We’re not just losing trees.
We’re losing our future. ⚠️
#COP30 is a crucial opportunity to take action and restore the world’s tropical forests.
📣 Use your voice and help protect the Amazon, before it’s too late.
Sign the petition at www.amazonleague.org
We’re losing our future. ⚠️
#COP30 is a crucial opportunity to take action and restore the world’s tropical forests.
📣 Use your voice and help protect the Amazon, before it’s too late.
Sign the petition at www.amazonleague.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
We’re not just losing trees.
We’re losing our future. ⚠️
#COP30 is a crucial opportunity to take action and restore the world’s tropical forests.
📣 Use your voice and help protect the Amazon, before it’s too late.
Sign the petition at www.amazonleague.org
We’re losing our future. ⚠️
#COP30 is a crucial opportunity to take action and restore the world’s tropical forests.
📣 Use your voice and help protect the Amazon, before it’s too late.
Sign the petition at www.amazonleague.org
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💥 Just 4 of Africa’s richest (all men) own more wealth than half of the continent — that’s 750 million people!
Inequality isn’t just rising – it’s exploding.
With South Africa leading the G20, this is the moment to demand tax justice.
Ramaphosa, #BeOurChampion to #TaxTheSuperRich
Inequality isn’t just rising – it’s exploding.
With South Africa leading the G20, this is the moment to demand tax justice.
Ramaphosa, #BeOurChampion to #TaxTheSuperRich
October 29, 2025 at 4:00 AM
💥 Just 4 of Africa’s richest (all men) own more wealth than half of the continent — that’s 750 million people!
Inequality isn’t just rising – it’s exploding.
With South Africa leading the G20, this is the moment to demand tax justice.
Ramaphosa, #BeOurChampion to #TaxTheSuperRich
Inequality isn’t just rising – it’s exploding.
With South Africa leading the G20, this is the moment to demand tax justice.
Ramaphosa, #BeOurChampion to #TaxTheSuperRich
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🦏 📣 John Hume, the big name in rhino breeding & calls for legalisation of #RhinoHorn trade has been arrested for smuggling. Demonstrates the complex inter-relations btwn legal & illegal wildlife trades. #IWT #GreenCollarCrime
Detailed piece from Save The Rhino ⬇️ www.savetherhino.org/africa/six-m...
Detailed piece from Save The Rhino ⬇️ www.savetherhino.org/africa/six-m...
Transnational Rhino Horn Trafficking Syndicate Arrested | News
Six individuals have been arrested on suspicion of international trafficking of more than 960 rhino horns in South Africa.
www.savetherhino.org
August 20, 2025 at 7:04 AM
🦏 📣 John Hume, the big name in rhino breeding & calls for legalisation of #RhinoHorn trade has been arrested for smuggling. Demonstrates the complex inter-relations btwn legal & illegal wildlife trades. #IWT #GreenCollarCrime
Detailed piece from Save The Rhino ⬇️ www.savetherhino.org/africa/six-m...
Detailed piece from Save The Rhino ⬇️ www.savetherhino.org/africa/six-m...
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Some 25 years in the making! Detailed insights into how #ecosystems have changed across East African mountains over the past 50000 years is now out in print version in the Journal of #Biogeography
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
August 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Some 25 years in the making! Detailed insights into how #ecosystems have changed across East African mountains over the past 50000 years is now out in print version in the Journal of #Biogeography
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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🏆ICTA-UAB Secures Third María De Maeztu Excellence
This distinction is the highest awarded at the national level to research centres in Spain, and is awarded in recognition for their scientific leadership, research quality, and international impact.
www.miragenews.com/icta-uab-sec...
This distinction is the highest awarded at the national level to research centres in Spain, and is awarded in recognition for their scientific leadership, research quality, and international impact.
www.miragenews.com/icta-uab-sec...
ICTA-UAB Secures Third María De Maeztu Excellence Nod
ICTA-UAB has been accredited, for the third time, as a "María de Maeztu" Unit of Excellence by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
www.miragenews.com
July 8, 2025 at 7:48 AM
🏆ICTA-UAB Secures Third María De Maeztu Excellence
This distinction is the highest awarded at the national level to research centres in Spain, and is awarded in recognition for their scientific leadership, research quality, and international impact.
www.miragenews.com/icta-uab-sec...
This distinction is the highest awarded at the national level to research centres in Spain, and is awarded in recognition for their scientific leadership, research quality, and international impact.
www.miragenews.com/icta-uab-sec...
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I am really proud to be involved with this. It is a tremendous honour just to receive one MdM award. Kudos to @icta-uab.bsky.social
🏆ICTA-UAB Secures Third María De Maeztu Excellence
This distinction is the highest awarded at the national level to research centres in Spain, and is awarded in recognition for their scientific leadership, research quality, and international impact.
www.miragenews.com/icta-uab-sec...
This distinction is the highest awarded at the national level to research centres in Spain, and is awarded in recognition for their scientific leadership, research quality, and international impact.
www.miragenews.com/icta-uab-sec...
ICTA-UAB Secures Third María De Maeztu Excellence Nod
ICTA-UAB has been accredited, for the third time, as a "María de Maeztu" Unit of Excellence by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
www.miragenews.com
July 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I am really proud to be involved with this. It is a tremendous honour just to receive one MdM award. Kudos to @icta-uab.bsky.social
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Has someone found a good way of getting money out of research? Don't stop it.
Copy it.
APC charges cost billions. MDPI leads with over $1.7bn (est. 2015-2023). Springer-Nature ‘only’ got $1.1bn and so what do they do?
They copy MDPI.
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
Copy it.
APC charges cost billions. MDPI leads with over $1.7bn (est. 2015-2023). Springer-Nature ‘only’ got $1.1bn and so what do they do?
They copy MDPI.
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io
June 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Has someone found a good way of getting money out of research? Don't stop it.
Copy it.
APC charges cost billions. MDPI leads with over $1.7bn (est. 2015-2023). Springer-Nature ‘only’ got $1.1bn and so what do they do?
They copy MDPI.
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
Copy it.
APC charges cost billions. MDPI leads with over $1.7bn (est. 2015-2023). Springer-Nature ‘only’ got $1.1bn and so what do they do?
They copy MDPI.
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
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We are #hiring! 💼
We seek a #fulltime Associate Programme Officer with strong analytical skills to join our Nature Conserved team and work within the Global Wildlife Trade focal initiative.
Apply here: www.unep-wcmc.org/en/vacancies... before 24th May 2025!
We seek a #fulltime Associate Programme Officer with strong analytical skills to join our Nature Conserved team and work within the Global Wildlife Trade focal initiative.
Apply here: www.unep-wcmc.org/en/vacancies... before 24th May 2025!
May 5, 2025 at 10:01 AM
We are #hiring! 💼
We seek a #fulltime Associate Programme Officer with strong analytical skills to join our Nature Conserved team and work within the Global Wildlife Trade focal initiative.
Apply here: www.unep-wcmc.org/en/vacancies... before 24th May 2025!
We seek a #fulltime Associate Programme Officer with strong analytical skills to join our Nature Conserved team and work within the Global Wildlife Trade focal initiative.
Apply here: www.unep-wcmc.org/en/vacancies... before 24th May 2025!
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Our paper "Milking the lions" was published today. It's all about a conservation approach that pays people for the presence of predators.
Thanks to amazing co-authors @georgeholmes.bsky.social, @mbmabele.bsky.social, and Julia Martin-Ortega
Read the paper (open access): doi.org/10.1111/csp2...
Thanks to amazing co-authors @georgeholmes.bsky.social, @mbmabele.bsky.social, and Julia Martin-Ortega
Read the paper (open access): doi.org/10.1111/csp2...
“Milking the lions”: An analysis of conservation performance payments in eastern and southern Africa
Conservation performance payments (CPPs) aim to encourage coexistence between humans and large carnivores by tying payments to species presence or abundance. While there is growing interest in the de...
doi.org
February 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Our paper "Milking the lions" was published today. It's all about a conservation approach that pays people for the presence of predators.
Thanks to amazing co-authors @georgeholmes.bsky.social, @mbmabele.bsky.social, and Julia Martin-Ortega
Read the paper (open access): doi.org/10.1111/csp2...
Thanks to amazing co-authors @georgeholmes.bsky.social, @mbmabele.bsky.social, and Julia Martin-Ortega
Read the paper (open access): doi.org/10.1111/csp2...
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Giant rats are joining the fight against #wildlife crime: With their super noses, they’re sniffing out illegal wildlife products, helping conservationists tackle trafficking.
#WildlifeCrime #ConservationTech 🌍 #Ratswithjobs
news.mongabay.com/video/2025/0...
#WildlifeCrime #ConservationTech 🌍 #Ratswithjobs
news.mongabay.com/video/2025/0...
Giant Rats: Sniffing Out Wildlife Crime | Wild Targets
MOROGORO, Tanzania – Rats have long been misunderstood, often seen as pests rather than pals. However, the African giant pouched rat, the largest in the world, possesses special qualities that have ca...
news.mongabay.com
February 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Giant rats are joining the fight against #wildlife crime: With their super noses, they’re sniffing out illegal wildlife products, helping conservationists tackle trafficking.
#WildlifeCrime #ConservationTech 🌍 #Ratswithjobs
news.mongabay.com/video/2025/0...
#WildlifeCrime #ConservationTech 🌍 #Ratswithjobs
news.mongabay.com/video/2025/0...
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Farmland investments often outlast political regimes—but what happens when political shifts disrupt investor dreams? 🇹🇿Joanny Bélair’s Tanzania’s Land Rush unpacks the evolving politics of land deals in Tanzania 📖✨ #LandPolitics #Tanzania institutionallandscapes.org/contribution...
#22 Tanzania’s Land Rush – A Zero-sum Game: Farmland Investments in Tanzania | Institutional Landscapes
institutionallandscapes.org
February 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Farmland investments often outlast political regimes—but what happens when political shifts disrupt investor dreams? 🇹🇿Joanny Bélair’s Tanzania’s Land Rush unpacks the evolving politics of land deals in Tanzania 📖✨ #LandPolitics #Tanzania institutionallandscapes.org/contribution...
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POLLEN 2026 will take place in Barcelona next June 💫, and we warmly welcome you all to join us. Stay tuned for updates on exact dates, costs, and scheduling ⌛—details will be available soon on our new website! 🖥️🙂
February 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
POLLEN 2026 will take place in Barcelona next June 💫, and we warmly welcome you all to join us. Stay tuned for updates on exact dates, costs, and scheduling ⌛—details will be available soon on our new website! 🖥️🙂
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Very happy to announce the 2025 Wageningen Political Ecology Spring school (7-11 april):
Political Ecologies of the Countryside: agrarian roots, environmental transformations and capitalist conflicts
Please spread the word or consider joining!
www.wur.nl/en/activity/...
Political Ecologies of the Countryside: agrarian roots, environmental transformations and capitalist conflicts
Please spread the word or consider joining!
www.wur.nl/en/activity/...
Political Ecologies of the Countryside: agrarian roots, environmental transformations and capitalist conflicts - 4 ECTS
The five-day intensive PhD spring school ‘Political Ecologies of the Countryside: agrarian roots, environmental transformations and capitalist conflicts’ will be held from 7-11 April 2025 in Wageninge...
www.wur.nl
December 19, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Very happy to announce the 2025 Wageningen Political Ecology Spring school (7-11 april):
Political Ecologies of the Countryside: agrarian roots, environmental transformations and capitalist conflicts
Please spread the word or consider joining!
www.wur.nl/en/activity/...
Political Ecologies of the Countryside: agrarian roots, environmental transformations and capitalist conflicts
Please spread the word or consider joining!
www.wur.nl/en/activity/...
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This baby is out in paperback. #GreenSky
Go get your copy and use the discount code GLR BD8 to save 20% www.bloomsbury.com/us/decoloniz...
Go get your copy and use the discount code GLR BD8 to save 20% www.bloomsbury.com/us/decoloniz...
February 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This baby is out in paperback. #GreenSky
Go get your copy and use the discount code GLR BD8 to save 20% www.bloomsbury.com/us/decoloniz...
Go get your copy and use the discount code GLR BD8 to save 20% www.bloomsbury.com/us/decoloniz...
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As CITES turns 50, a new study in Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution reveals that the global wildlife trade agreement is failing to curb illegal extraction and trafficking.
Researchers instead propose a new framework exploring institutionally diverse conservation models ⬇️
bit.ly/4hmla72
Researchers instead propose a new framework exploring institutionally diverse conservation models ⬇️
bit.ly/4hmla72
As CITES turns 50, Oxford researchers urge reforms to improve global wildlife trade regulation
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February 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
As CITES turns 50, a new study in Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution reveals that the global wildlife trade agreement is failing to curb illegal extraction and trafficking.
Researchers instead propose a new framework exploring institutionally diverse conservation models ⬇️
bit.ly/4hmla72
Researchers instead propose a new framework exploring institutionally diverse conservation models ⬇️
bit.ly/4hmla72
Looking forward to the milestones of the Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit to be held in Dar es Salaam on the 27th and 28th of January 2025 @worldbankgroup.bsky.social @afdbgroup.bsky.social
January 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Looking forward to the milestones of the Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit to be held in Dar es Salaam on the 27th and 28th of January 2025 @worldbankgroup.bsky.social @afdbgroup.bsky.social
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The Economist covered our "Strain on scientific publishing" paper.
What is this all about?
We collectively churn out more & more papers *per scientist*, an increasing pace, in a rapidly changing publication landscape.
Why? How? Want to make sense of this? 🧵
www.economist.com/science-and-...
What is this all about?
We collectively churn out more & more papers *per scientist*, an increasing pace, in a rapidly changing publication landscape.
Why? How? Want to make sense of this? 🧵
www.economist.com/science-and-...
Scientific publishers are producing more papers than ever
Concerns about some of their business models are building
www.economist.com
November 23, 2024 at 2:17 PM
The Economist covered our "Strain on scientific publishing" paper.
What is this all about?
We collectively churn out more & more papers *per scientist*, an increasing pace, in a rapidly changing publication landscape.
Why? How? Want to make sense of this? 🧵
www.economist.com/science-and-...
What is this all about?
We collectively churn out more & more papers *per scientist*, an increasing pace, in a rapidly changing publication landscape.
Why? How? Want to make sense of this? 🧵
www.economist.com/science-and-...
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Today @danbrockington.bsky.social opened the 2025 ICFO Colloquium series with a talk on “The strain on scientific publishing”.
This critical look at scientific publishing raises important questions about the process and the quality of publishing today.
Thank you Dan! 🙌
This critical look at scientific publishing raises important questions about the process and the quality of publishing today.
Thank you Dan! 🙌
January 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Today @danbrockington.bsky.social opened the 2025 ICFO Colloquium series with a talk on “The strain on scientific publishing”.
This critical look at scientific publishing raises important questions about the process and the quality of publishing today.
Thank you Dan! 🙌
This critical look at scientific publishing raises important questions about the process and the quality of publishing today.
Thank you Dan! 🙌
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Starting the new year with a new book review!
'Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape' by Youkin B. Chung. Reviewed for us by Kate Reynolds, Leila M. Harris, & Vincent Chireh.
The book investigates the [never implemented] EcoEnergy project in Bagamoyo, Tanzania...
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
'Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape' by Youkin B. Chung. Reviewed for us by Kate Reynolds, Leila M. Harris, & Vincent Chireh.
The book investigates the [never implemented] EcoEnergy project in Bagamoyo, Tanzania...
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
January 6, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Starting the new year with a new book review!
'Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape' by Youkin B. Chung. Reviewed for us by Kate Reynolds, Leila M. Harris, & Vincent Chireh.
The book investigates the [never implemented] EcoEnergy project in Bagamoyo, Tanzania...
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
'Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape' by Youkin B. Chung. Reviewed for us by Kate Reynolds, Leila M. Harris, & Vincent Chireh.
The book investigates the [never implemented] EcoEnergy project in Bagamoyo, Tanzania...
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
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With biodiversity facing unprecedented challenges, @orchiddelirium.bsky.social has contributed to a study identifying key areas AI could transform existing conservation practices and reverse biodiversity loss 👇
bit.ly/4iIOjuk
@wildcru.bsky.social @oxmartinschool.bsky.social @iccs.bsky.social
bit.ly/4iIOjuk
@wildcru.bsky.social @oxmartinschool.bsky.social @iccs.bsky.social
Revolutionising conservation with AI
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December 18, 2024 at 9:39 AM
With biodiversity facing unprecedented challenges, @orchiddelirium.bsky.social has contributed to a study identifying key areas AI could transform existing conservation practices and reverse biodiversity loss 👇
bit.ly/4iIOjuk
@wildcru.bsky.social @oxmartinschool.bsky.social @iccs.bsky.social
bit.ly/4iIOjuk
@wildcru.bsky.social @oxmartinschool.bsky.social @iccs.bsky.social
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Environmental Internationalism Is in Its Flop Era. Every major international negotiation failed to meet its goals
Interesting piece - similar to what @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social and I wrote 2 years ago (theconversation.com/biodiversity...).
Time for change!
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
Interesting piece - similar to what @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social and I wrote 2 years ago (theconversation.com/biodiversity...).
Time for change!
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
Environmental Internationalism Is in Its Flop Era
Every major international negotiation—over biodiversity, plastics, and climate—failed to meet its goals.
www.theatlantic.com
December 16, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Environmental Internationalism Is in Its Flop Era. Every major international negotiation failed to meet its goals
Interesting piece - similar to what @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social and I wrote 2 years ago (theconversation.com/biodiversity...).
Time for change!
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
Interesting piece - similar to what @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social and I wrote 2 years ago (theconversation.com/biodiversity...).
Time for change!
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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Keep in mind ➡️ Cycling 🚲 is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities(!)👇👇
theconversation.com/cycling-is-t...
theconversation.com/cycling-is-t...
November 23, 2024 at 6:34 AM
Keep in mind ➡️ Cycling 🚲 is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities(!)👇👇
theconversation.com/cycling-is-t...
theconversation.com/cycling-is-t...
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To celebrate #GeographyAwarenessWeek, I’m sharing my new article on the epistemic territorialization of wildlife conservation volunteering in Namibia #geosky #geography #politicalecology #politicalepistemology @geographers.bsky.social @criticalpoleco.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Geopolitics of Problematic Information: Epistemic Territorialization and Wildlife Conservation Volunteering in Namibia
This article describes how power—socioeconomic, epistemic, and political—is harnessed and maintained through information exchanged under the aegis of private property. What was “real” in conservati...
www.tandfonline.com
November 21, 2024 at 5:23 PM
To celebrate #GeographyAwarenessWeek, I’m sharing my new article on the epistemic territorialization of wildlife conservation volunteering in Namibia #geosky #geography #politicalecology #politicalepistemology @geographers.bsky.social @criticalpoleco.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....