Mathew Mabele
mbmabele.bsky.social
Mathew Mabele
@mbmabele.bsky.social
Researches and writes about biodiversity conservation, climate change, environmental justice and epistemic disobedience to Euro-American centricity in tropical ecosystems.
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July 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Our MAARIFA Research Project website is now online. Stay tuned for insights about digital citizen science technologies and their potential to transform knowledge systems in tropical landscape monitoring maarifa.udom.ac.tz
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June 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Reposted by Mathew Mabele
Antipode Foundation "Right to the Discipline" grants, Call for Proposals, due date 31 March 2025 antipodeonline.org/a-right-to-t...
“Right to the Discipline” grants - Antipode Online
Call for Proposals, October 2024 Last year we received 225 strong applications with a success rate of 6.2%. We anticipate funding a similar number of 10-12 grants in the next application year. Antipod...
antipodeonline.org
March 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Reposted by Mathew Mabele
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...
“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
Reposted by Mathew Mabele
🚨 "After 30 years, evidence that carbon markets are contributing to mitigation or helping mobilize finance is just not there."
Elisa Morgera, UN special rapporteur on climate change

reddmonitor.substack.com/p/un-experts...
UN experts expressed “serious concerns” about the gavelling through of carbon trading rules at COP29 in Baku
“After 30 years, evidence that carbon markets are contributing to mitigation or helping mobilize finance is just not there.”
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January 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM