Kimberly A. With
@kimberlywith.bsky.social
Landscape/Spatial Ecologist & Conservation Scientist | Author of "Essentials of Landscape Ecology" (Oxford Univ. Press; 2019) | Birding & Flyfishing Enthusiast
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The reintroduction of the Spix’s macaw in Brazil’s Caatinga shrubland faces a health crisis: seven birds have tested positive for circovirus, a highly contagious, potentially fatal disease with no known cure.
Virus outbreak deepens rift over return of Spix’s macaw to Brazil
CURAÇÁ, Brazil — Under the scorching sun of Brazil’s semiarid Caatinga shrubland, squawks tear through the skies, signaling the arrival of one of the most threatened bird species in the world.…
news.mongabay.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The reintroduction of the Spix’s macaw in Brazil’s Caatinga shrubland faces a health crisis: seven birds have tested positive for circovirus, a highly contagious, potentially fatal disease with no known cure.
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Brazil’s Cerrado savanna has experienced its worst fire season on record, but a tiny Indigenous territory here has for four years now kept the flames at bay.
The volunteer brigade made up largely of Bakairi Indigenous women has been instrumental in preventing major fires.
The volunteer brigade made up largely of Bakairi Indigenous women has been instrumental in preventing major fires.
An Indigenous women-led revolution fights fires in Brazil’s Cerrado
When they closed their eyes, the Bakairi people of the Santana Indigenous Territory in Brazil heard a sound similar to rain in the forest. It was reminiscent of a summer storm, the kind that arrives…
news.mongabay.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Brazil’s Cerrado savanna has experienced its worst fire season on record, but a tiny Indigenous territory here has for four years now kept the flames at bay.
The volunteer brigade made up largely of Bakairi Indigenous women has been instrumental in preventing major fires.
The volunteer brigade made up largely of Bakairi Indigenous women has been instrumental in preventing major fires.
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Brazil's CERRADO: 2M km² savannah with 12,000+ plant species (45% endemic). Called "upside-down forest" - roots reach 20m deep, storing 60% of biomass underground. Fire-adapted biodiversity hotspot. 50% destroyed, only 3% protected. One of Earth's most threatened ecosystems. Science🧪
October 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Brazil's CERRADO: 2M km² savannah with 12,000+ plant species (45% endemic). Called "upside-down forest" - roots reach 20m deep, storing 60% of biomass underground. Fire-adapted biodiversity hotspot. 50% destroyed, only 3% protected. One of Earth's most threatened ecosystems. Science🧪
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This chart from @safeclimate.bsky.social ate.bsky.social is a beautiful work of art — and a horrifying observation of our warming planet 🧪
September 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This chart from @safeclimate.bsky.social ate.bsky.social is a beautiful work of art — and a horrifying observation of our warming planet 🧪
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Brazil’s antitrust regulator suspended a key mechanism for rainforest protection, the Amazon Soy Moratorium, on Aug. 18, less than three months before the nation hosts the COP30 climate summit.
Brazil suspends Amazon Soy Moratorium, raising fears of deforestation spike
Brazil’s antitrust regulator suspended a key mechanism for rainforest protection, the Amazon Soy Moratorium, on Aug. 18, less than three months before the nation hosts the COP30 climate summit. The…
news.mongabay.com
August 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Brazil’s antitrust regulator suspended a key mechanism for rainforest protection, the Amazon Soy Moratorium, on Aug. 18, less than three months before the nation hosts the COP30 climate summit.
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Brazil’s pre-COP30 gift: a new Amazon road + scrapping the soy moratorium. If this is how they act with the world watching, imagine what happens when no one is.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Brazil authorities suspend key Amazon rainforest protection measure
Suspension of Soy moratorium could open up area of rainforest the size of Portugal to destruction
www.theguardian.com
August 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Brazil’s pre-COP30 gift: a new Amazon road + scrapping the soy moratorium. If this is how they act with the world watching, imagine what happens when no one is.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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@biologicaldiversity.org is exploring legal options, including appealing the decision and petitioning to relist LEPCs. If you live in CO, KS, NM, OK, or TX, work with your state to protect these birds. Watch for more actions. #birds 🌎
Lesser Prairie Chicken Loses Endangered Species Act Protections
www.nytimes.com
August 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
@biologicaldiversity.org is exploring legal options, including appealing the decision and petitioning to relist LEPCs. If you live in CO, KS, NM, OK, or TX, work with your state to protect these birds. Watch for more actions. #birds 🌎
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Suffering repeated changes, Brazil’s Forest Code regulates protected areas & forest management on private property, & commercialization of forest products.
Under the Code, if a landholder exceeds the legally permitted area eligible for conversion, they are legally required to restore the forest.
Under the Code, if a landholder exceeds the legally permitted area eligible for conversion, they are legally required to restore the forest.
Brazil’s Forestry Code seeks to strengthen forest conservation, but controversies remain
The most consequential of strategies regarding forests has been Brazil’s longstanding policy to obligate landholders to conserve forest and other natural habitats on their properties. There have…
news.mongabay.com
August 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Suffering repeated changes, Brazil’s Forest Code regulates protected areas & forest management on private property, & commercialization of forest products.
Under the Code, if a landholder exceeds the legally permitted area eligible for conversion, they are legally required to restore the forest.
Under the Code, if a landholder exceeds the legally permitted area eligible for conversion, they are legally required to restore the forest.
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“If #deforestation and violence continue unchecked, it won’t be a species that disappears — it will be an entire #ecosystem, lost to greed, crime and neglect. Will the world listen, or will this be the parrot’s final call?” a new op-ed asks.
#parrots #endangeredspecies
#parrots #endangeredspecies
How drug cartels destroy the last habitat of Mexico’s thick-billed parrot (commentary)
While supporting conservation research in Mexico’s Sierra Madre Occidental with teams from the U.S.-based Columbia University and San Diego Zoo Global, I assisted in work involving the endangered thic...
news.mongabay.com
July 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
“If #deforestation and violence continue unchecked, it won’t be a species that disappears — it will be an entire #ecosystem, lost to greed, crime and neglect. Will the world listen, or will this be the parrot’s final call?” a new op-ed asks.
#parrots #endangeredspecies
#parrots #endangeredspecies
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I’m thinking today about all the women doing DEI work in universities, and how all of our canceled grants and shuttered initiatives means that not only are we losing the time we’ve already put in, we’re now even more behind our male peers who stayed focused on their research.
July 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I’m thinking today about all the women doing DEI work in universities, and how all of our canceled grants and shuttered initiatives means that not only are we losing the time we’ve already put in, we’re now even more behind our male peers who stayed focused on their research.
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There are way too many things to be upset about these days, but I believe the destruction of public lands should be near the top of the list: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Trump to strip protections from millions of acres of national forests
The USDA announced it would begin the process of rolling back protections for nearly 59 million roadless acres of the National Forest system.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
There are way too many things to be upset about these days, but I believe the destruction of public lands should be near the top of the list: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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The Senate is considering a provision to sell your public lands:
- 258 million acres in 11 western states at risk.
- Sells up to 3 million USFS & BLM acres in five years
A boon for the McMansion class.
Tell your senator: Hell no.
act.biologicaldiversity.org/kh3v25rZ0U63...
- 258 million acres in 11 western states at risk.
- Sells up to 3 million USFS & BLM acres in five years
A boon for the McMansion class.
Tell your senator: Hell no.
act.biologicaldiversity.org/kh3v25rZ0U63...
Take a Stand for Public Lands
Public lands across the United States are at risk: President Donald Trump and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency want to sell them off to private interests. Urge your representative and...
act.biologicaldiversity.org
June 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The Senate is considering a provision to sell your public lands:
- 258 million acres in 11 western states at risk.
- Sells up to 3 million USFS & BLM acres in five years
A boon for the McMansion class.
Tell your senator: Hell no.
act.biologicaldiversity.org/kh3v25rZ0U63...
- 258 million acres in 11 western states at risk.
- Sells up to 3 million USFS & BLM acres in five years
A boon for the McMansion class.
Tell your senator: Hell no.
act.biologicaldiversity.org/kh3v25rZ0U63...
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It's like evil Gifford Pinchot drew a map. That's a lot of national forest land in the Lower 48 and a massive amount of BLM land in Alaska. Some of the best public lands we have will be available for purchase, but not by people like you or me.
Thanks to @wilderness.org for pulling this together.
Thanks to @wilderness.org for pulling this together.
June 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
It's like evil Gifford Pinchot drew a map. That's a lot of national forest land in the Lower 48 and a massive amount of BLM land in Alaska. Some of the best public lands we have will be available for purchase, but not by people like you or me.
Thanks to @wilderness.org for pulling this together.
Thanks to @wilderness.org for pulling this together.
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A eucalyptus boom in Brazil’s biodiverse Cerrado savanna is drying up land and water springs, making subsistence farming more difficult, local authorities and farmers tell Mongabay.
Eucalyptus boom in Brazil’s Cerrado dries up springs, forces out smallholders
A eucalyptus boom in Brazil’s biodiverse Cerrado savanna is drying up land and water springs, making subsistence farming more difficult, local authorities and farmers tell Mongabay. Adilso Cruz, a…
news.mongabay.com
June 12, 2025 at 8:18 AM
A eucalyptus boom in Brazil’s biodiverse Cerrado savanna is drying up land and water springs, making subsistence farming more difficult, local authorities and farmers tell Mongabay.
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Excited to say that we just submitted a Second Edition of Spatial Ecology and Conservation Modeling to the publisher!
Updates on concepts, models, applications, and code. Plus, two new chapters are included!
Marie-Josee and I hope it is helpful to the ecological and conservation community!
Updates on concepts, models, applications, and code. Plus, two new chapters are included!
Marie-Josee and I hope it is helpful to the ecological and conservation community!
April 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Excited to say that we just submitted a Second Edition of Spatial Ecology and Conservation Modeling to the publisher!
Updates on concepts, models, applications, and code. Plus, two new chapters are included!
Marie-Josee and I hope it is helpful to the ecological and conservation community!
Updates on concepts, models, applications, and code. Plus, two new chapters are included!
Marie-Josee and I hope it is helpful to the ecological and conservation community!
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Habitat loss and the illegal pet trade drove the red-tailed amazon to fewer than 5,000 individuals by the end of the 20th Century.
Thanks to a project to install artificial nests on an island on the Paraná coast, these parrots have now gone from “endangered” to “near threatened” status.
Thanks to a project to install artificial nests on an island on the Paraná coast, these parrots have now gone from “endangered” to “near threatened” status.
Back to the skies: the unlikely comeback of one of Brazil’s rarest parrots
Parrots numbered 44460 and 44461 don’t know it yet, but they’re about to meet the human species — with all the trauma that entails. It’s late afternoon, yesterday’s rain has left a swamp on the…
news.mongabay.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Habitat loss and the illegal pet trade drove the red-tailed amazon to fewer than 5,000 individuals by the end of the 20th Century.
Thanks to a project to install artificial nests on an island on the Paraná coast, these parrots have now gone from “endangered” to “near threatened” status.
Thanks to a project to install artificial nests on an island on the Paraná coast, these parrots have now gone from “endangered” to “near threatened” status.
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in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list
April 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list
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The 2025 U.S. #StateOfTheBirds report was released today. The report finds that birds continue to decline unabated across most habitats—habitats that are also vital to human well-being.
Read the report & take action! www.stateofthebirds.org/2025/
#bringbirdsback
Read the report & take action! www.stateofthebirds.org/2025/
#bringbirdsback
March 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The 2025 U.S. #StateOfTheBirds report was released today. The report finds that birds continue to decline unabated across most habitats—habitats that are also vital to human well-being.
Read the report & take action! www.stateofthebirds.org/2025/
#bringbirdsback
Read the report & take action! www.stateofthebirds.org/2025/
#bringbirdsback
Sheer perversity
As horrific as the future will be, humanity deserves everything that's coming, for we are knowingly creating it daily--"A new 4-lane hiway cutting thru tens of 1000s of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the city of Belém." www.bbc.com/news/article...
Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
The infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.
www.bbc.com
March 13, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Sheer perversity
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More 'environmental leadership' (sic) from Lula and Brazil -- "The Cerrado's diverse savannas, grassland, and forests house some 5,000 endemic species, whose habitats are vanishing at extreme speed." Once this ecosystem is functionally gone, it's gone for good. But yeah, cheap soybeans. 🌏
Are these the last days of Brazil's realm of hidden wonder?
The largest agricultural boom on the planet threatens to destroy a spectacular savanna. Here's what happens when progress outpaces preservation. #SalveCerrado www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
The largest agricultural boom on the planet threatens to destroy a spectacular savanna. Here's what happens when progress outpaces preservation. #SalveCerrado www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
Why this Brazilian savanna is as vital as the Amazon rainforest
The largest agricultural boom on the planet threatens to destroy a spectacular savanna. Here's what happens when progress outpaces preservation.
www.nationalgeographic.com
February 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
More 'environmental leadership' (sic) from Lula and Brazil -- "The Cerrado's diverse savannas, grassland, and forests house some 5,000 endemic species, whose habitats are vanishing at extreme speed." Once this ecosystem is functionally gone, it's gone for good. But yeah, cheap soybeans. 🌏
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Not to worry, 50 million acres of tropical deforestation is fine, because "oil palms are trees and have leaves."
"No need to be afraid of damage, deforestation, oil palm is a tree, it has leaves, right?"
President Prabowo's speech in the plan to open 20 million hectares of land, there are things I want to criticize from his words
President Prabowo's speech in the plan to open 20 million hectares of land, there are things I want to criticize from his words
February 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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On this celebratory day of women and girls in science, let’s reflect that the US National Science Foundation has put the words “women” and “female” (but not “men” and “male”) on the list of forbidden words that will get your grant slated for the reject bin.
February 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
On this celebratory day of women and girls in science, let’s reflect that the US National Science Foundation has put the words “women” and “female” (but not “men” and “male”) on the list of forbidden words that will get your grant slated for the reject bin.
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1/2 Taking a little break from outrage to mention that I'm teaching my #rstats course on advanced spatial analysis this semester, using my book on Geographic Data Science with R. It's available online for free - feel free to check it out for tips and examples bookdown.org/mcwimberly/g...
Geographic Data Science with R: Visualizing and Analyzing Environmental Change
A book example for a Chapman & Hall book.
bookdown.org
February 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
1/2 Taking a little break from outrage to mention that I'm teaching my #rstats course on advanced spatial analysis this semester, using my book on Geographic Data Science with R. It's available online for free - feel free to check it out for tips and examples bookdown.org/mcwimberly/g...