Nathan Bennett
@nathanjbennett.bsky.social
Humans. Environments. Oceans. Critical & Solution Oriented. Pracademic & Strategist. Global Oceans Researcher & Chair of IUCN People and the Ocean Specialist Group #ConSocSci #MarSocSci Canadian. Thoughts, shares, opinions here are mine.
A safe climate is a human right, and states have a legal obligation to respond through addressing climate change. This is a key message for #COP30.
Read more in our new commentary: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Read more in our new commentary: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The human right to a safe climate - Nature Sustainability
Nature Sustainability - The human right to a safe climate
www.nature.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
A safe climate is a human right, and states have a legal obligation to respond through addressing climate change. This is a key message for #COP30.
Read more in our new commentary: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Read more in our new commentary: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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It's been a long time in development, but I am thrilled to say that our new "Guidebook for assessing and improving social equity in marine conservation" is now released, launched at the IUCN #WorldConservationCongress2025
Download your copy now here: portals.iucn.org/library/node...
Download your copy now here: portals.iucn.org/library/node...
October 9, 2025 at 9:46 AM
It's been a long time in development, but I am thrilled to say that our new "Guidebook for assessing and improving social equity in marine conservation" is now released, launched at the IUCN #WorldConservationCongress2025
Download your copy now here: portals.iucn.org/library/node...
Download your copy now here: portals.iucn.org/library/node...
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The IUCN Guidebook for Assessing and Improving Social Equity in Marine Conservation launched this week. Available to download now: portals.iucn.org/library/node...
You can also join us for a webinar on October 28th to learn more!
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#consocsci #marsocsci #marineequity
You can also join us for a webinar on October 28th to learn more!
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#consocsci #marsocsci #marineequity
Guidebook for assessing and improving social equity in marine conservation | IUCN Library System
portals.iucn.org
October 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The IUCN Guidebook for Assessing and Improving Social Equity in Marine Conservation launched this week. Available to download now: portals.iucn.org/library/node...
You can also join us for a webinar on October 28th to learn more!
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#consocsci #marsocsci #marineequity
You can also join us for a webinar on October 28th to learn more!
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#consocsci #marsocsci #marineequity
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RESEARCH: Accounting for human–nature linkages in area-based conservation monitoring through social–ecological indicator bundles. Co-authored by Drs. @annaschuhbauer.bsky.social & @nathanjbennett.bsky.social conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... via @society4conbio.bsky.social
Accounting for human–nature linkages in area‐based conservation monitoring through social–ecological indicator bundles
As the coverage of area-based conservation increases across the globe, it is critical to improve understanding of the social and ecological outcomes of such measures and the pathways to their outcome...
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September 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM
RESEARCH: Accounting for human–nature linkages in area-based conservation monitoring through social–ecological indicator bundles. Co-authored by Drs. @annaschuhbauer.bsky.social & @nathanjbennett.bsky.social conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... via @society4conbio.bsky.social
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My new op-ed on how we need a "great rewilding" of childhood to counteract the "great rewiring of childhood" described in Anxious Generation @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social
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Reverse the great rewiring of childhood with a great rewilding of childhood: Jeff Opperman
Across all neighborhoods, relinquishing parental control remains a challenge, but can be accomplished most effectively through collective action — parents, neighborhoods, and schools working together ...
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September 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
My new op-ed on how we need a "great rewilding" of childhood to counteract the "great rewiring of childhood" described in Anxious Generation @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social
Screen shot of print page in comments if can't access link www.cleveland.com/news/2025/09...
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🌊 How are the largest companies reporting their impacts on ocean ecosystems?
In new research co-authored by ORRAA Board Member, Robert Blasiak, a study reviewed 75 major companies across eight sectors of the ocean economy.
🔗 Find out more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In new research co-authored by ORRAA Board Member, Robert Blasiak, a study reviewed 75 major companies across eight sectors of the ocean economy.
🔗 Find out more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Identifying and closing gaps in corporate reporting of ocean impacts - Nature Sustainability
Increasing transparency about firms’ reporting of environmental impacts is especially important in the context of a growing ocean economy. This study analyses the content of sustainability and annual ...
www.nature.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:11 AM
🌊 How are the largest companies reporting their impacts on ocean ecosystems?
In new research co-authored by ORRAA Board Member, Robert Blasiak, a study reviewed 75 major companies across eight sectors of the ocean economy.
🔗 Find out more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In new research co-authored by ORRAA Board Member, Robert Blasiak, a study reviewed 75 major companies across eight sectors of the ocean economy.
🔗 Find out more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Many fisheries worldwide are unsustainable, driven by overfishing and a focus on economic growth. What if fisheries were managed for wellbeing instead?
This is the question we ask in this new paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This is the question we ask in this new paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Many fisheries worldwide are unsustainable, driven by overfishing and a focus on economic growth. What if fisheries were managed for wellbeing instead?
This is the question we ask in this new paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This is the question we ask in this new paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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#NewPaper in Science Advances finds that domestic fishing vessels account for the majority of port visits around the world. Comprehensive inspections at port for both foreign and domestic fishing fleets are a key deterrent for #illegalfishing.
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September 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
#NewPaper in Science Advances finds that domestic fishing vessels account for the majority of port visits around the world. Comprehensive inspections at port for both foreign and domestic fishing fleets are a key deterrent for #illegalfishing.
🔗 stanford.io/45LXlB2
📷 Hong Wu/Getty Images
🔗 stanford.io/45LXlB2
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Interesting stuff from @nathanjbennett.bsky.social on monitoring approaches to measure progress towards "ocean equity" 👇. @oceanpia.bsky.social
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
Frontiers | Ocean equity: from assessment to action to improve social equity in ocean governance
Inequity is ubiquitous in the ocean, and social equity receives insufficient attention in ocean governance and management efforts. Thus, we assert that propo...
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August 31, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Interesting stuff from @nathanjbennett.bsky.social on monitoring approaches to measure progress towards "ocean equity" 👇. @oceanpia.bsky.social
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
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Ahead of talks to #BeatPlasticPollution in Geneva, grateful to the Government of Switzerland for hosting the #INC5.2 Multistakeholder Forum.
We need a #PlasticsTreaty for the people that helps deliver on the right of everyone, everywhere to a safe, healthy environment.
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We need a #PlasticsTreaty for the people that helps deliver on the right of everyone, everywhere to a safe, healthy environment.
www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
A global village coming together for a plastic pollution treaty
Inger Andersen's speech at a multi-stakeholder event ahead of INC-5.2.
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August 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Ahead of talks to #BeatPlasticPollution in Geneva, grateful to the Government of Switzerland for hosting the #INC5.2 Multistakeholder Forum.
We need a #PlasticsTreaty for the people that helps deliver on the right of everyone, everywhere to a safe, healthy environment.
www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
We need a #PlasticsTreaty for the people that helps deliver on the right of everyone, everywhere to a safe, healthy environment.
www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
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Petrobras has been conducting surveys since 2013 using seismic airgun blasts that can destabilize marine ecosystems by interrupting essential communication in the marine food chain.
Seismic noise from oil companies threatens Amazon River Mouth marine life
OIAPOQUE, Brazil — At the northernmost tip of Brazil, where the Amazon spills into the Atlantic, a fragile web of estuaries, mangroves, submerged reefs and open sea is showing signs of distress.…
news.mongabay.com
July 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Petrobras has been conducting surveys since 2013 using seismic airgun blasts that can destabilize marine ecosystems by interrupting essential communication in the marine food chain.
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What happens to artisanal fishers when a deep-sea fishing port comes to town?
What happens to artisanal fishers when a deep-sea fishing port comes to town?
This is Mongabay’s second story in a short series about the new Shimoni Fish Port. Read the first story here. SHIMONI, Kenya — On a drizzly March afternoon, more than two dozen vessels bobbed on…
news.mongabay.com
June 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
What happens to artisanal fishers when a deep-sea fishing port comes to town?
🚨 📣 Yesterday at UN Open Conference, we launched a Call To Action to Support and Safeguard Ocean Defenders! 📣🚨
We call on the international #ocean community to recognize #HumanRights to a healthy ocean & the need to maintain safe civic spaces for ocean defenders.
🔗 SIGN HERE: tinyurl.com/mt6fp25b
We call on the international #ocean community to recognize #HumanRights to a healthy ocean & the need to maintain safe civic spaces for ocean defenders.
🔗 SIGN HERE: tinyurl.com/mt6fp25b
Invitation to Organizations and Individuals to Support "A Call to Action to Support and Safeguard Ocean Defenders"
Globally, the human rights of coastal populations and communities are threatened by a rapidly expanding ocean economy and related impacts on the environment and people. Local individuals, groups, and ...
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June 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🚨 📣 Yesterday at UN Open Conference, we launched a Call To Action to Support and Safeguard Ocean Defenders! 📣🚨
We call on the international #ocean community to recognize #HumanRights to a healthy ocean & the need to maintain safe civic spaces for ocean defenders.
🔗 SIGN HERE: tinyurl.com/mt6fp25b
We call on the international #ocean community to recognize #HumanRights to a healthy ocean & the need to maintain safe civic spaces for ocean defenders.
🔗 SIGN HERE: tinyurl.com/mt6fp25b
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Kicking off our event at #UNOC3 with #OceanDefenders sharing their personal testimonies - brave, wise and important stories to hear on this global stage 🌊📣
@riseup4theocean.bsky.social @nathanjbennett.bsky.social
@riseup4theocean.bsky.social @nathanjbennett.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Kicking off our event at #UNOC3 with #OceanDefenders sharing their personal testimonies - brave, wise and important stories to hear on this global stage 🌊📣
@riseup4theocean.bsky.social @nathanjbennett.bsky.social
@riseup4theocean.bsky.social @nathanjbennett.bsky.social
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#CoastalCommunities are at the intersection of #HumanRights abuses & #ocean protection. At #UNOC3, we're supporting a high-level side event bringing #CoastalCommunities & #OceanDefenders together with civil & public sectors, & govt reps, to explore challenges and solutions 👇👇
May 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
#CoastalCommunities are at the intersection of #HumanRights abuses & #ocean protection. At #UNOC3, we're supporting a high-level side event bringing #CoastalCommunities & #OceanDefenders together with civil & public sectors, & govt reps, to explore challenges and solutions 👇👇
A healthy #ocean is a #HumanRight. Join us at #UNOC3 as we spotlight testimonies of #OceanDefenders & drive support for their right to a healthy ocean.
📅 11 June, 16:45–18:45 - Launch of A Call To Action to support & safeguard Ocean Defenders
🔗 events.humanitix.com/ocean-defend...
📅 11 June, 16:45–18:45 - Launch of A Call To Action to support & safeguard Ocean Defenders
🔗 events.humanitix.com/ocean-defend...
May 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
A healthy #ocean is a #HumanRight. Join us at #UNOC3 as we spotlight testimonies of #OceanDefenders & drive support for their right to a healthy ocean.
📅 11 June, 16:45–18:45 - Launch of A Call To Action to support & safeguard Ocean Defenders
🔗 events.humanitix.com/ocean-defend...
📅 11 June, 16:45–18:45 - Launch of A Call To Action to support & safeguard Ocean Defenders
🔗 events.humanitix.com/ocean-defend...
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New Report Alert! -> Ocean Defenders: Protectors of Our Ocean Environment & Human Rights
📥 Download here: shorturl.at/o7OWi
This report sheds light on the struggles & resilience of those protecting marine environments & human rights. 🌊 ✊
🔁 Share widely! #OceanDefenders #HumanRights #BlueJustice
📥 Download here: shorturl.at/o7OWi
This report sheds light on the struggles & resilience of those protecting marine environments & human rights. 🌊 ✊
🔁 Share widely! #OceanDefenders #HumanRights #BlueJustice
March 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
New Report Alert! -> Ocean Defenders: Protectors of Our Ocean Environment & Human Rights
📥 Download here: shorturl.at/o7OWi
This report sheds light on the struggles & resilience of those protecting marine environments & human rights. 🌊 ✊
🔁 Share widely! #OceanDefenders #HumanRights #BlueJustice
📥 Download here: shorturl.at/o7OWi
This report sheds light on the struggles & resilience of those protecting marine environments & human rights. 🌊 ✊
🔁 Share widely! #OceanDefenders #HumanRights #BlueJustice
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The science 🧪 is overwhelming and clear: diversity in all its forms is critical to our, and indeed the entire planet’s survival and continued thriving.
Read my latest here theecologist.org/2025/apr/04/...
Read my latest here theecologist.org/2025/apr/04/...
The consequences of oppressing diversity
Communities are working to revive diversity and resilience by re-localising food systems, decentralising governance, and restoring traditional languages and land practices.
theecologist.org
April 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The science 🧪 is overwhelming and clear: diversity in all its forms is critical to our, and indeed the entire planet’s survival and continued thriving.
Read my latest here theecologist.org/2025/apr/04/...
Read my latest here theecologist.org/2025/apr/04/...
Great to see this Special Issue on "Trends and Future Directions in the Conservation Social Sciences" in @conbiology.bsky.social #ConSocSci #MarSocSci
The field has come a long way, and there is still room for growth:
The field has come a long way, and there is still room for growth:
Special Issue: Trends and Future Directions in the Conservation Social Sciences: Conservation Biology: Vol 39, No 2
<em>Conservation Biology</em> is the leading global journal in the field of conservation, publishing groundbreaking papers contributing to the conservation of biological diversity.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Great to see this Special Issue on "Trends and Future Directions in the Conservation Social Sciences" in @conbiology.bsky.social #ConSocSci #MarSocSci
The field has come a long way, and there is still room for growth:
The field has come a long way, and there is still room for growth:
New book chapter on "Ocean governance and the protection of ocean defenders" - outlines the main issues at stake and key avenues for further research.
#oceandefenders #humanrights #bluejustice #oceangovernance
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
#oceandefenders #humanrights #bluejustice #oceangovernance
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
www.elgaronline.com
March 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
New book chapter on "Ocean governance and the protection of ocean defenders" - outlines the main issues at stake and key avenues for further research.
#oceandefenders #humanrights #bluejustice #oceangovernance
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
#oceandefenders #humanrights #bluejustice #oceangovernance
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
New Report Alert! -> Ocean Defenders: Protectors of Our Ocean Environment & Human Rights
📥 Download here: shorturl.at/o7OWi
This report sheds light on the struggles & resilience of those protecting marine environments & human rights. 🌊 ✊
🔁 Share widely! #OceanDefenders #HumanRights #BlueJustice
📥 Download here: shorturl.at/o7OWi
This report sheds light on the struggles & resilience of those protecting marine environments & human rights. 🌊 ✊
🔁 Share widely! #OceanDefenders #HumanRights #BlueJustice
March 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
New Report Alert! -> Ocean Defenders: Protectors of Our Ocean Environment & Human Rights
📥 Download here: shorturl.at/o7OWi
This report sheds light on the struggles & resilience of those protecting marine environments & human rights. 🌊 ✊
🔁 Share widely! #OceanDefenders #HumanRights #BlueJustice
📥 Download here: shorturl.at/o7OWi
This report sheds light on the struggles & resilience of those protecting marine environments & human rights. 🌊 ✊
🔁 Share widely! #OceanDefenders #HumanRights #BlueJustice
🌊 Join The Ocean Defenders Project & IUCN CEESP for the report launch of: Ocean Defenders: Protectors of Our Ocean Environment and Human Rights - Register: shorturl.at/WQPhV
Report explores the struggles & resilience of those safeguarding our oceans.
📅 March 11 | ⏰ 8AM PST / 11AM EST / 4PM CET
Report explores the struggles & resilience of those safeguarding our oceans.
📅 March 11 | ⏰ 8AM PST / 11AM EST / 4PM CET
Launch of the Report: “Ocean Defenders: Protectors of Our Ocean Environment and Human Rights”
Join us on 11 March for the Launch of the Report: “Ocean Defenders: Protectors of Our Ocean Environment and Human Rights”. Ocean defenders - including Indigenous Peoples, small-scale fishers, women, y...
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March 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
🌊 Join The Ocean Defenders Project & IUCN CEESP for the report launch of: Ocean Defenders: Protectors of Our Ocean Environment and Human Rights - Register: shorturl.at/WQPhV
Report explores the struggles & resilience of those safeguarding our oceans.
📅 March 11 | ⏰ 8AM PST / 11AM EST / 4PM CET
Report explores the struggles & resilience of those safeguarding our oceans.
📅 March 11 | ⏰ 8AM PST / 11AM EST / 4PM CET
🌊 Join The Ocean Defenders Project & IUCN CEESP for the report launch of: Ocean Defenders: Protectors of Our Ocean Environment and Human Rights - Register: shorturl.at/WQPhV
Report explores the struggles & resilience of those safeguarding our oceans.
📅 March 11 | ⏰ 7AM PST / 10AM EST / 4PM CET
Report explores the struggles & resilience of those safeguarding our oceans.
📅 March 11 | ⏰ 7AM PST / 10AM EST / 4PM CET
March 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
🌊 Join The Ocean Defenders Project & IUCN CEESP for the report launch of: Ocean Defenders: Protectors of Our Ocean Environment and Human Rights - Register: shorturl.at/WQPhV
Report explores the struggles & resilience of those safeguarding our oceans.
📅 March 11 | ⏰ 7AM PST / 10AM EST / 4PM CET
Report explores the struggles & resilience of those safeguarding our oceans.
📅 March 11 | ⏰ 7AM PST / 10AM EST / 4PM CET
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📣 Hey conservationsky! 🌍 We recently launched the WWF Fuller Science for Nature Seminar Series, Solutions for the Planet's Interlinked Challenges. This series brings together experts from the two most recent IPBES assessments (Nexus & Transformative Change): www.worldwildlife.org/pages/soluti...
Solutions for the Planet’s Interlinked Challenges | Pages | WWF
www.worldwildlife.org
February 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
📣 Hey conservationsky! 🌍 We recently launched the WWF Fuller Science for Nature Seminar Series, Solutions for the Planet's Interlinked Challenges. This series brings together experts from the two most recent IPBES assessments (Nexus & Transformative Change): www.worldwildlife.org/pages/soluti...