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The BES Community Science group provides a forum for sharing and showcasing current community science in ecology, fostering creativity, inclusivity, interdisciplinarity and innovation in participatory and co-created research.
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Welcome to the new Community Science Special Interest Group
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December 3, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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environmental heritage, eco-tourism...
CfP: Tourism, Memory and Heritage Conference (2026),
Amsterdam and Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Full details: lnkd.in/ebPHRqgM
Amsterdam and Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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December 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
environmental heritage, eco-tourism...
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📜 "Nature descriptions in folksongs, myths, and legends can help in understanding ecological histories of tropical savannas"
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/AhnI4Se
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/AhnI4Se
December 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
📜 "Nature descriptions in folksongs, myths, and legends can help in understanding ecological histories of tropical savannas"
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/AhnI4Se
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/AhnI4Se
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December 2, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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💬 “unpacking between- & within-group NCP preferences of actors can reduce the risk of stereotyping & oversimplifying social actors in scientific results. Such a research approach also fosters more inclusive conservation by accounting for plural needs from nature…”
🗻Understanding preferences for nature's contributions to people between and within social actors sheds insights for inclusive conservation
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/l24b8V7
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/l24b8V7
December 2, 2025 at 8:52 AM
💬 “unpacking between- & within-group NCP preferences of actors can reduce the risk of stereotyping & oversimplifying social actors in scientific results. Such a research approach also fosters more inclusive conservation by accounting for plural needs from nature…”
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Right tree, right place, right reason: Using knowledge exchange and research co-design to explore current challenges and opportunities for sustainable urban forest management
Jill Edmondson, et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#PlantScience #UrbanForest #trees
Jill Edmondson, et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#PlantScience #UrbanForest #trees
December 1, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Right tree, right place, right reason: Using knowledge exchange and research co-design to explore current challenges and opportunities for sustainable urban forest management
Jill Edmondson, et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#PlantScience #UrbanForest #trees
Jill Edmondson, et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#PlantScience #UrbanForest #trees
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[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social]
In Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands, rich with macaques, gibbons & hornbills, Indigenous youth continue practicing Arat Sabulungan — a belief that every part of nature holds spirits. Rituals before cutting trees or fishing remain a way to keep balance.
In Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands, rich with macaques, gibbons & hornbills, Indigenous youth continue practicing Arat Sabulungan — a belief that every part of nature holds spirits. Rituals before cutting trees or fishing remain a way to keep balance.
How religious beliefs may help protect Mentawai’s forests
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Off the western coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, the Mentawai Islands…
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November 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social]
In Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands, rich with macaques, gibbons & hornbills, Indigenous youth continue practicing Arat Sabulungan — a belief that every part of nature holds spirits. Rituals before cutting trees or fishing remain a way to keep balance.
In Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands, rich with macaques, gibbons & hornbills, Indigenous youth continue practicing Arat Sabulungan — a belief that every part of nature holds spirits. Rituals before cutting trees or fishing remain a way to keep balance.
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Last call to book your ticket at the early bird price!
From 5 Dec, tickets for the #ResilientLandscapesAndSeasSymposium 2026 #RLASSymposium will go up to full price.
Featuring talks across 6 themes, this is the first annual #RLASPartnership symposium.
Book: https://bit.ly/RLASReg 🌍
From 5 Dec, tickets for the #ResilientLandscapesAndSeasSymposium 2026 #RLASSymposium will go up to full price.
Featuring talks across 6 themes, this is the first annual #RLASPartnership symposium.
Book: https://bit.ly/RLASReg 🌍
December 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Last call to book your ticket at the early bird price!
From 5 Dec, tickets for the #ResilientLandscapesAndSeasSymposium 2026 #RLASSymposium will go up to full price.
Featuring talks across 6 themes, this is the first annual #RLASPartnership symposium.
Book: https://bit.ly/RLASReg 🌍
From 5 Dec, tickets for the #ResilientLandscapesAndSeasSymposium 2026 #RLASSymposium will go up to full price.
Featuring talks across 6 themes, this is the first annual #RLASPartnership symposium.
Book: https://bit.ly/RLASReg 🌍
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📆Coffee mornings with us this Friday!📆
Come join us and present or listen to some of the amazing research that is happening out there! #climatechange
So grab a hot drink and we will see you on Friday ☕
Link to register:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Come join us and present or listen to some of the amazing research that is happening out there! #climatechange
So grab a hot drink and we will see you on Friday ☕
Link to register:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
December 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM
📆Coffee mornings with us this Friday!📆
Come join us and present or listen to some of the amazing research that is happening out there! #climatechange
So grab a hot drink and we will see you on Friday ☕
Link to register:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Come join us and present or listen to some of the amazing research that is happening out there! #climatechange
So grab a hot drink and we will see you on Friday ☕
Link to register:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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🌳 "Protected areas shape human-nature connections in diverse ways. Our study identifies five key narratives—learning, care, regional heritage, multifunctional production & collaborations—offering insights to strengthen conservation strategies"
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/HntSxCk
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/HntSxCk
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🌳 "Protected areas shape human-nature connections in diverse ways. Our study identifies five key narratives—learning, care, regional heritage, multifunctional production & collaborations—offering insights to strengthen conservation strategies"
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/HntSxCk
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/HntSxCk
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☕The Climate Change Group is back with their next Coffee Morning on 5 December at 10 am (GMT).
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
☕The Climate Change Group is back with their next Coffee Morning on 5 December at 10 am (GMT).
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Did you know that you may be able to publish your paper in MEE, or in our other open access journals at no cost?
We have outlined how you can use resources like funding, waivers and agreements – including our own BES waivers.
Find out more👇
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We have outlined how you can use resources like funding, waivers and agreements – including our own BES waivers.
Find out more👇
buff.ly/4MH6Lkn
November 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Did you know that you may be able to publish your paper in MEE, or in our other open access journals at no cost?
We have outlined how you can use resources like funding, waivers and agreements – including our own BES waivers.
Find out more👇
buff.ly/4MH6Lkn
We have outlined how you can use resources like funding, waivers and agreements – including our own BES waivers.
Find out more👇
buff.ly/4MH6Lkn
💬 “Hunting led by local Indigenous Nations was ranked the most cost-effective strategy when benefits considered well-being of peoples and place holistically, and accounted for both Indigenous and Western science worldviews…”
🦌 Decision analysis rooted in Indigenous and Western scientific knowledge identifies cost-effective strategies for managing hyperabundant deer to restore keystone places
📖 Read the full paper here➡️ buff.ly/HeuMdKX
📖 Read the full paper here➡️ buff.ly/HeuMdKX
November 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM
💬 “Hunting led by local Indigenous Nations was ranked the most cost-effective strategy when benefits considered well-being of peoples and place holistically, and accounted for both Indigenous and Western science worldviews…”
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Even your older nature photos can help scientists today! As long as you know when and where you took the photos, you can post your nature sightings on iNaturalist anytime — and they'll still contribute to science and conservation. Got anything in your camera roll to share? 👀
November 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Even your older nature photos can help scientists today! As long as you know when and where you took the photos, you can post your nature sightings on iNaturalist anytime — and they'll still contribute to science and conservation. Got anything in your camera roll to share? 👀
💬 “Through 138 on-site interviews, project meetings, online research, biodiversity assessments and landscape appraisals, we score the likelihood of ongoing effective stewardship…”
🏘️ Mow or no? This study of the 'Making Space for Nature' project details different pathways to effective stewardship of our urban green spaces; balancing the needs of diverse people and wildlife into the future
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/OlE5817
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/OlE5817
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
💬 “Through 138 on-site interviews, project meetings, online research, biodiversity assessments and landscape appraisals, we score the likelihood of ongoing effective stewardship…”
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Looking for your next steps? Check out our collection of #educational and #career resources available on our website! 🌱
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Educational and career resources
Welcome to the latest addition to our website! Here, you’ll find a wealth of information on all things to do with Conservation Ecology skills, education and careers! Whether you’re look…
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November 24, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Looking for your next steps? Check out our collection of #educational and #career resources available on our website! 🌱
besconservationsig.wordpress.com/educational-...
besconservationsig.wordpress.com/educational-...
We have a new photo for the SIG, taken by our chair @chloechesney.bsky.social outside her home during her PhD in Guinea-Bissau. Foot prints of the community: people, chickens, dogs, can you see any others?
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Community Science Group - British Ecological Society
Bringing people together to support creativity in ecological research.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
We have a new photo for the SIG, taken by our chair @chloechesney.bsky.social outside her home during her PhD in Guinea-Bissau. Foot prints of the community: people, chickens, dogs, can you see any others?
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/citi...
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💬 “We find that certain common and useful plants have had their abundances increased or depleted by past human activities. We highlight the potential role of long-term human–environment interactions in shaping modern Amazonian forests”
The Amazon Rainforest was shaped by people. Analysis of 262 trees species across 1,521 forest plots reveals that both pre-Columbian Indigenous peoples and European colonists enduringly influenced the forest’s relative abundance of trees. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/VAqY50XuP38
November 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
💬 “We find that certain common and useful plants have had their abundances increased or depleted by past human activities. We highlight the potential role of long-term human–environment interactions in shaping modern Amazonian forests”
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November 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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💬 “Understanding why & how people use wildlife is therefore essential... This means looking beyond ecological indicators & protection targets to explore the social, economic, & cultural contexts that shape human-wildlife interactions”
🚨 Our Assistant Editor, Chiara Bragagnolo, explains the importance of Understanding the Human Dimensions of Sea Turtle Conservation. Reflecting on their highlights from the recently published paper by Hemelikova et al. 2025.
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📖 Chiara's blog piece ➡️ buff.ly/kbivmtW
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📖 Chiara's blog piece ➡️ buff.ly/kbivmtW
November 21, 2025 at 10:03 AM
💬 “Understanding why & how people use wildlife is therefore essential... This means looking beyond ecological indicators & protection targets to explore the social, economic, & cultural contexts that shape human-wildlife interactions”
🚨Post doc opportunity
“The Research Fellow will lead analyses as part of a global working group synthesizing evidence on the biodiversity, climate, and social outcomes of community-based conservation (CBC) in land and coastal systems…”
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“The Research Fellow will lead analyses as part of a global working group synthesizing evidence on the biodiversity, climate, and social outcomes of community-based conservation (CBC) in land and coastal systems…”
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November 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
🚨Post doc opportunity
“The Research Fellow will lead analyses as part of a global working group synthesizing evidence on the biodiversity, climate, and social outcomes of community-based conservation (CBC) in land and coastal systems…”
apply.interfolio.com/177757
“The Research Fellow will lead analyses as part of a global working group synthesizing evidence on the biodiversity, climate, and social outcomes of community-based conservation (CBC) in land and coastal systems…”
apply.interfolio.com/177757
🚨Call for papers 📝
“research manuscripts that employ multi-disciplinary as well as social science approaches in exploring themes and concepts, including…
- Human values, beliefs, emotions, attitudes, norms, and knowledge related to bird conservation…”
www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
“research manuscripts that employ multi-disciplinary as well as social science approaches in exploring themes and concepts, including…
- Human values, beliefs, emotions, attitudes, norms, and knowledge related to bird conservation…”
www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
Frontiers | Impacts of Human-Bird Interactions on Human Well-Being and Behavior
Birds are among the most common wildlife species humans interact with in daily life. Previous research suggests that bird-related activities are related to h...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
🚨Call for papers 📝
“research manuscripts that employ multi-disciplinary as well as social science approaches in exploring themes and concepts, including…
- Human values, beliefs, emotions, attitudes, norms, and knowledge related to bird conservation…”
www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
“research manuscripts that employ multi-disciplinary as well as social science approaches in exploring themes and concepts, including…
- Human values, beliefs, emotions, attitudes, norms, and knowledge related to bird conservation…”
www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
💬 “Those actually living with the wildlife should be involved in the development of a vision for how they will coexist with wildlife, should they choose to”
My response to a comment on my diversity article "#Conservation and #Coexistence at a Crossroads" is now available as early view in Conservation Biology, here:
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15231739...
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15231739...
November 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
💬 “Those actually living with the wildlife should be involved in the development of a vision for how they will coexist with wildlife, should they choose to”
💬 “Practical Tools are shorter (3000-4000 words) articles describing new field techniques, equipment or lab protocols”
Methods in Ecology and Evolution publishes "Practical Tools"!
Submit your article sharing the newest advances in field techniques, equipment or lab protocols.
#JournalSpotlight
Find out more: https://ow.ly/TSJT50XtMxh
Submit your article sharing the newest advances in field techniques, equipment or lab protocols.
#JournalSpotlight
Find out more: https://ow.ly/TSJT50XtMxh
November 20, 2025 at 9:51 AM
💬 “Practical Tools are shorter (3000-4000 words) articles describing new field techniques, equipment or lab protocols”
💬 “This guide for Indigenous Peoples and local communities presents a variety of options for monitoring the health of your local rivers and the diversity of life (biodiversity) that they support”
New guidance under the #TransformativePathways project, led by @albanaberberi.bsky.social in collaboration with @forestpeoplesp.bsky.social
transformativepathways.net/community-ba...
transformativepathways.net/community-ba...
Community-based monitoring of river health and biodiversity - Transformative Pathways
This guide for Indigenous Peoples and local communities presents a variety of options for monitoring the health of your local rivers and the diversity of life (biodiversity) that they support.
transformativepathways.net
November 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
💬 “This guide for Indigenous Peoples and local communities presents a variety of options for monitoring the health of your local rivers and the diversity of life (biodiversity) that they support”