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Ana Nuno
@ananuno.bsky.social
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Interdisciplinary conservation researcher. Honorary Associate Professor @exetercec.bsky.social. Principal Investigator NOVA Uni. Lisbon. Freelance consultant ananuno.net
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ananuno.bsky.social
Want to know more about fisheries and marine protected areas in São Tomé and Príncipe? Then don't miss @gporrinos.bsky.social's presentation this Thursday (30th Oct)! Online at 4 p.m. (Lisbon time) www.ce3c.pt/agenda/encon...
Agenda
CE3C is committed to a sustainable future, is the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes. Know more about CE3C.
www.ce3c.pt
October 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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teresacatry.bsky.social
Extremelly happy that our project BirdRice was approved for funding! We will keep studying the relationships between #waterbirds and #ricefields while trying to solve human-wildlife conflicts.
#ornithology #tracking #connectivity #agriculture #conservation
@cienciasulisboa.bsky.social
BirdDRice: Reconciling agriculture with biodiversity conservation: functional equivalence and connectivity between natural wetlands and rice fields as waterbird habitats
October 21, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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deepseadawn.bsky.social
Seamounts of Cabo Verde: A review of their ecological and economic significance, anthropogenic impacts, and conservation needs
#openaccess

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Idealized representation of the Cabo Verde Seamounts (oceanographic processes, faunal groups, depth zones, and human activities) based on the information compiled in the paper. On the top of the figure, location of the two most extensively studied seamounts—Cadamosto (southwest of Brava) and Senghor (northeast of Sal).
October 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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patriciaguedes.bsky.social
Out last friday 📣 want to learn more about habitat use and diel activity of insectivorous bats 🦇 in different land-covers🏝️? Check our study in the endemic-rich Princípe Island, Central West Africa👇:
@ricardonature.bsky.social @tallyyoh.bsky.social

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Habitat use and diel activity of insectivorous bats across land‐cover types on an Afrotropical oceanic island
Using acoustic surveys, we investigated habitat use and diel activity patterns of insectivorous bats across the main land-use types of the endemic-rich Príncipe Island, in Central West Africa. We sam...
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October 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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oceanaccounts.bsky.social
👀 #ConsultancyOpportunity for a #SocialScience team interested in integrating the social domain for #OceanAccounts in Belize 🇧🇿

Led by Belize Ministry of Blue Economy and Marine Conservation & @oceanaccounts.bsky.social

🤔 Find out more: www.oceanaccounts.org/consultancy-...
September 16, 2025 at 6:21 AM
ananuno.bsky.social
A UE quer reverter proteções ambientais vitais. Prazo para travar isto: 10 de setembro ⏰
Diz-lhes para manterem as suas #HandsOffNature 👉 spea.pt/campanhas/ha...
Não deixe a UE destruir a proteção da natureza | #HandsOffNature - SPEA
Temos 10 dias para impedir a Comissão Europeia de destruir proteções ambientais vitais. Diga-lhes para deixarem a natureza em paz.
spea.pt
September 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
ananuno.bsky.social
This is @oceancommunity.bsky.social's first paper! He looked at MCS policies in India and explored how they could be improved for managing IUU fishing. Well done for the great work! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @exetermarine.bsky.social @zslscience.bsky.social @iomarinescience.bsky.social
Bridging policy and practice: A review of monitoring, control, and surveillance in managing illegal fishing in India
With increasing pressure on marine ecosystems, effective Monitoring, Control, and Surveillance (MCS) measures are critical in managing Illegal, Unregu…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 29, 2025 at 12:23 PM
ananuno.bsky.social
Last week, a devastating wildfire struck the Douro International Natural Park, burning over 15,000 hectares of vital feeding and breeding habitat of the cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus) in Portugal. Donate to help recovery #Conservation www.gofundme.com/f/ajuda-o-ab...
Donate to Ajudar o abutre-preto após incêndio no Douro Internacional, organized by Palombar ACNPR
[PT] Ajude-nos na recuperação após o incêndio: Apoie o abutr… Palombar ACNPR needs your support for Ajudar o abutre-preto após incêndio no Douro Internacional
www.gofundme.com
August 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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oceanknigge.bsky.social
Innovative leader with a conservation/climate solution that works & has potential to go big?
Henry Fellowship offers:
🌊strategy retreats & coaching
🌊100K unrestricted grant upfront
🌊consideration for longer term funding
Recommendation deadline 7 August
www.mulagofoundation.org/henry-fellow...
Mulago Foundation | Henry Fellows Program
Through our Henry Arnhold Fellowship we find leaders with promising conservation and climate solutions and help them to design and deliver them at scale.
www.mulagofoundation.org
July 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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sharks-int.bsky.social
Call for Abstracts is NOW OPEN for Sharks International 2026! 🦈

Help shape Sharks International 2026 - the world’s largest conference on sharks, rays, and chimaeras - taking place 4–8 May 2026 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

🔗 More info: si2026.org/participate/...

📸 Fabrice Dudenhofer
July 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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oceanknigge.bsky.social
NGO funding opportunity for marine conservation in West Africa.
🌊 €30-40K over 12 months.
🌊 Deadline 25 August
🌊 Call for proposal by #PRCM ➡️ ogy.de/j7t3
#OceanOptimism
July 16, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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unep.org
From rising seas to disappearing forests, small island developing states are facing some of the fiercest fallout from the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste.

But many of these countries are fighting back: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
July 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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iomarinescience.bsky.social
Meet some of our senior researchers in the programme!

Our researchers work across different areas of the marine world and these researchers look at a mixture of turtle ecology, shark genomics, oceanography and social science
@ananuno.bsky.social‬
#MarineScience #Scientists
July 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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blueactionfund.org
Research based on our first project with @faunaflora.bsky.social in 🇸🇹 ogy.de/ftuk
Thanks @ananuno.bsky.social and colleagues for sharing your experiences...
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Establishing a Marine Protected Area network using a Marine Spatial Planning approach: A reflection on practical challenges and opportunities for social–ecological integration
Often, the establishment of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and the application of Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) occur in parallel. Using São Tomé and Príncipe as a case study, we illustrate how MSP wa...
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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martinjung.eu
Systematic conservation planning (SCP) has been established as key approach to identify where conservation efforts are to be prioritized. But how can they be assessed, compared or interrogated 🧐 Here we present ODPSCP, a new open protocol for the intercomparison of SCP doi.org/10.1111/csp2... (1)
An interoperable and standardized protocol for reporting systematic conservation planning projects
A new standard protocol for contextualizing systematic conservation planning studies is presented and the potential benefits highlighted. By adopting such community reporting standards, scientists an...
doi.org
June 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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menardpsychgroup.bsky.social
Bots are breaking our field's data. Our latest research shares hard lessons from 3 of our recent studies disrupted by bots and scammers. We tested standard #frauddetection tools and many failed. #research #researchintegrity

Read more here: doi.org/10.1080/1050...
June 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
ananuno.bsky.social
New paper on recreational fisheries in Diego Garcia (Chagos) led by Claire Collins: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Part of a SI I am putting together with @ricardonature.bsky.social in @conservationsp.bsky.social ! @zslofficial.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social #conservationscience🌎
Participatory approaches to improving recreational fisheries management in a remote island system
Marine recreational fisheries management is often impacted by data deficiencies and conflicting stakeholder views. Using participatory approaches can help to increase fisher engagement and identify t...
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 5, 2025 at 8:11 AM
ananuno.bsky.social
Small-scale fisheries are vital to coastal communities across the globe, but do we really understand how they operate? Our new paper is out!
exetermarine.bsky.social Exeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · Apr 30
NEW RESEARCH lead by Exeter Marine researchers assesses the global research on small scale fisheries behaviour and reveals just how young and limited the data really is.

👉 Full paper in Marine Policy - doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...

🦑🌍🦤🌊🌐🧪🐟🎣
#AcademicSky #Fisheries #MarinePolicy
image showing small fishing boats in Asia. Text overlayed reads 'new research. a synthesis of research into marine small-scale fishers' operational behaviour. warner et al 2025 marine policy'
April 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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exetermarine.bsky.social
NEW RESEARCH lead by Exeter Marine researchers assesses the global research on small scale fisheries behaviour and reveals just how young and limited the data really is.

👉 Full paper in Marine Policy - doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...

🦑🌍🦤🌊🌐🧪🐟🎣
#AcademicSky #Fisheries #MarinePolicy
image showing small fishing boats in Asia. Text overlayed reads 'new research. a synthesis of research into marine small-scale fishers' operational behaviour. warner et al 2025 marine policy'
April 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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ashsimkins.bsky.social
*Positive news* Despite global declines in biodiversity, we find conservation has driven improvements in >100 species. This suggests with greater resource allocation to more species, conservation can halt and reverse biodiversity loss! First PhD paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Iberian Lynx (Lynx pardinus) (c) Octavio Jimenez Robles
March 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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eoinobrien.ie
Beavers build planned dams in protected landscape area, while local officials still seeking permits

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Beavers build planned dams in protected landscape area, while local officials still seeking permits
A beaver colony has gained overnight fame by building several dams in the Brdy protected landscape area, creating a natural wetland exactly where it was needed.
english.radio.cz
February 5, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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muser.press
A new marine conservation model integrates ecological recovery with economic growth. Marine Prosperity Areas aim to protect oceans while supporting communities. Published in Frontiers in Marine Science.
DOI: doi.org/10.3389/fmar...
#MarineConservation #Sustainability #ProtectedAreas
'Marine Prosperity Areas': A new path for ocean conservation • Muser Press
A new conservation model known as 'Marine Prosperity Areas' (MPpAs) could transform marine protection by integrating ecological restoration with human
www.muser.press
February 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
ananuno.bsky.social
It was a pleasure to work with Ennia Bosshard et al on this brand new paper! Read to learn more about factors that encourage or discourage adoption of pro-environmental practices by smallholder farmers besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @uniexecec.bsky.social #conservationscience🌎
January 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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oceanknigge.bsky.social
Actually a welcomed reminder that google & co are not neutral knowledge providers, but tough co-operations that put profits first.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Google Maps will rename Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America in US
Tech firm to make change in line with Trump’s executive order, using both names in world outside US and Mexico
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2025 at 10:41 AM
ananuno.bsky.social
Quer saber mais sobre as abelhas selvagens de Portugal? Há um novo livro e é gratuito www.publico.pt/2025/01/22/a...
Quer saber mais sobre as abelhas selvagens de Portugal? Há um novo livro e é gratuito
Universidade de Coimbra lança livro para identificação de abelhas de Portugal onde se resumem as famílias, subfamílias, tribos e géneros presentes no país. Em Portugal há 750 espécies destes insectos.
www.publico.pt
January 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM