Now live! www.ethicalconservation.org/toolkit/
-Offers a fresh perspective on “human-wildlife conflict”
-Suggests shifting the narrative from demonisation of wildlife towards an empathetic & nuanced approach to conflict, in partnership w/ local communities
#ethicalconservation #conservationscience🌍
-Offers a fresh perspective on “human-wildlife conflict”
-Suggests shifting the narrative from demonisation of wildlife towards an empathetic & nuanced approach to conflict, in partnership w/ local communities
#ethicalconservation #conservationscience🌍
November 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Now live! www.ethicalconservation.org/toolkit/
-Offers a fresh perspective on “human-wildlife conflict”
-Suggests shifting the narrative from demonisation of wildlife towards an empathetic & nuanced approach to conflict, in partnership w/ local communities
#ethicalconservation #conservationscience🌍
-Offers a fresh perspective on “human-wildlife conflict”
-Suggests shifting the narrative from demonisation of wildlife towards an empathetic & nuanced approach to conflict, in partnership w/ local communities
#ethicalconservation #conservationscience🌍
Hey everyone, is there a literature (can be grey) discussing the ethics of using #generativeAI in #conservation and-or #ecology? I have to persuade some folks to consider the “darker” side of it and some authoritative/academic sources would really help. Thanks for any links.
🌍#conservationscience
🌍#conservationscience
November 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Hey everyone, is there a literature (can be grey) discussing the ethics of using #generativeAI in #conservation and-or #ecology? I have to persuade some folks to consider the “darker” side of it and some authoritative/academic sources would really help. Thanks for any links.
🌍#conservationscience
🌍#conservationscience
🌍 This One Health Day, the Wild Animal Health Fund celebrates the vital link between wildlife, people, and our shared planet.
wildanimalhealthfund.org
#OneHealthDay #WildAnimalHealthFund #OneHealth #WildlifeResearch #ConservationScience #AAZV #WAHF
wildanimalhealthfund.org
#OneHealthDay #WildAnimalHealthFund #OneHealth #WildlifeResearch #ConservationScience #AAZV #WAHF
November 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
🌍 This One Health Day, the Wild Animal Health Fund celebrates the vital link between wildlife, people, and our shared planet.
wildanimalhealthfund.org
#OneHealthDay #WildAnimalHealthFund #OneHealth #WildlifeResearch #ConservationScience #AAZV #WAHF
wildanimalhealthfund.org
#OneHealthDay #WildAnimalHealthFund #OneHealth #WildlifeResearch #ConservationScience #AAZV #WAHF
Safety first when marking waders shorebirds.
Blog from 29 Oct 2018 🎂
wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/10/29/l...
Another blog with safety advice:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/09/04/f...
#ConservationScience🌍
Blog from 29 Oct 2018 🎂
wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/10/29/l...
Another blog with safety advice:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/09/04/f...
#ConservationScience🌍
Leg-flags and nest success
For ornithologists studying birds by adding colour-rings, flags and tracking devices, a question of fundamental importance is always “am I affecting the birds’ survival or behaviour by requiring th…
wadertales.wordpress.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Safety first when marking waders shorebirds.
Blog from 29 Oct 2018 🎂
wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/10/29/l...
Another blog with safety advice:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/09/04/f...
#ConservationScience🌍
Blog from 29 Oct 2018 🎂
wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/10/29/l...
Another blog with safety advice:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/09/04/f...
#ConservationScience🌍
On this day in 2021, WaderTales was celebrating a new Bar-tailed Godwit subspecies.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/10/18/n...
Today, Jesse Conklin tells us about 2 subspecies that have started to hybridise after 16,000 years separation.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/r...
#ConservationScience🌍
wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/10/18/n...
Today, Jesse Conklin tells us about 2 subspecies that have started to hybridise after 16,000 years separation.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/r...
#ConservationScience🌍
October 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
On this day in 2021, WaderTales was celebrating a new Bar-tailed Godwit subspecies.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/10/18/n...
Today, Jesse Conklin tells us about 2 subspecies that have started to hybridise after 16,000 years separation.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/r...
#ConservationScience🌍
wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/10/18/n...
Today, Jesse Conklin tells us about 2 subspecies that have started to hybridise after 16,000 years separation.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/r...
#ConservationScience🌍
We (Snow Leopard Trust) will have a consultancy available soon to do climate-smart protected area planning in Kyrgyzstan. Will involve #cameratrap data & Zonation. Suitable for PhD/post-doc level or a lab group. Get in touch if interested! Will post link once it’s live! 🧪🌍#conservationscience
October 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We (Snow Leopard Trust) will have a consultancy available soon to do climate-smart protected area planning in Kyrgyzstan. Will involve #cameratrap data & Zonation. Suitable for PhD/post-doc level or a lab group. Get in touch if interested! Will post link once it’s live! 🧪🌍#conservationscience
Annual Moisture Levels Drive Population Dynamics Across the Breeding Range of a Declining Waterbird.
A. E. Mckellar, S. A. Flemming, and A. C. Smith
Waterbirds 48 (2), 1-14. (6 September 2025) doi.org/10.1675/063....
#ornithology🐦
#evosky
#conservationscience🌍
A. E. Mckellar, S. A. Flemming, and A. C. Smith
Waterbirds 48 (2), 1-14. (6 September 2025) doi.org/10.1675/063....
#ornithology🐦
#evosky
#conservationscience🌍
October 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Annual Moisture Levels Drive Population Dynamics Across the Breeding Range of a Declining Waterbird.
A. E. Mckellar, S. A. Flemming, and A. C. Smith
Waterbirds 48 (2), 1-14. (6 September 2025) doi.org/10.1675/063....
#ornithology🐦
#evosky
#conservationscience🌍
A. E. Mckellar, S. A. Flemming, and A. C. Smith
Waterbirds 48 (2), 1-14. (6 September 2025) doi.org/10.1675/063....
#ornithology🐦
#evosky
#conservationscience🌍
'Moult, captured on camera'
WaderTales blog #151
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/m...
Full catalogue:
wadertales.wordpress.com/about/
#ConservationScience🌍
WaderTales blog #151
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/m...
Full catalogue:
wadertales.wordpress.com/about/
#ConservationScience🌍
October 10, 2025 at 6:53 AM
'Moult, captured on camera'
WaderTales blog #151
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/m...
Full catalogue:
wadertales.wordpress.com/about/
#ConservationScience🌍
WaderTales blog #151
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/m...
Full catalogue:
wadertales.wordpress.com/about/
#ConservationScience🌍
🐏 Last week the BTO NI team and staff from the National Trust retrieved cameras monitoring a Cormorant colony on Sheep Island
📸 This footage will be vital for understanding coastal-breeding Cormorants, which lack consistent productivity data in Northern Ireland
#seabirds #ConservationScience🌍
📸 This footage will be vital for understanding coastal-breeding Cormorants, which lack consistent productivity data in Northern Ireland
#seabirds #ConservationScience🌍
September 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
🐏 Last week the BTO NI team and staff from the National Trust retrieved cameras monitoring a Cormorant colony on Sheep Island
📸 This footage will be vital for understanding coastal-breeding Cormorants, which lack consistent productivity data in Northern Ireland
#seabirds #ConservationScience🌍
📸 This footage will be vital for understanding coastal-breeding Cormorants, which lack consistent productivity data in Northern Ireland
#seabirds #ConservationScience🌍
But how successful is headstarting?
Important paper from the Project Godwit team was at the heart of WaderTales blog #138, published on 26 Sep 2024:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/09/26/h...
#ConservationScience🌍
Important paper from the Project Godwit team was at the heart of WaderTales blog #138, published on 26 Sep 2024:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/09/26/h...
#ConservationScience🌍
September 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
But how successful is headstarting?
Important paper from the Project Godwit team was at the heart of WaderTales blog #138, published on 26 Sep 2024:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/09/26/h...
#ConservationScience🌍
Important paper from the Project Godwit team was at the heart of WaderTales blog #138, published on 26 Sep 2024:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/09/26/h...
#ConservationScience🌍
'Madagascar’s environmental and human histories are dynamic, complex and deeply intertwined'
A Recent Comment article published as FirstView in #EnvironmentalConservation
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#Madagascar #Landscape #Environment #conservationscience🌍
A Recent Comment article published as FirstView in #EnvironmentalConservation
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#Madagascar #Landscape #Environment #conservationscience🌍
September 24, 2025 at 8:41 AM
'Madagascar’s environmental and human histories are dynamic, complex and deeply intertwined'
A Recent Comment article published as FirstView in #EnvironmentalConservation
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#Madagascar #Landscape #Environment #conservationscience🌍
A Recent Comment article published as FirstView in #EnvironmentalConservation
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#Madagascar #Landscape #Environment #conservationscience🌍
1️⃣0️⃣ years of WaderTales
Using science 🧪 to try to save the Spoon-billed Sandpiper from extinction.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/10/22/s...
The blog was written in 2020 and has been added to several times.
#ConservationScience🌍
Using science 🧪 to try to save the Spoon-billed Sandpiper from extinction.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/10/22/s...
The blog was written in 2020 and has been added to several times.
#ConservationScience🌍
Spoon-billed Sandpipers: Track and Trace
The cutest wader in the world has to be the ‘critically endangered’ Spoon-billed Sandpiper, a tiny wader with an ice-cream spoon for a bill. An ever-reducing number of pairs breed in the coastal tu…
wadertales.wordpress.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:42 AM
1️⃣0️⃣ years of WaderTales
Using science 🧪 to try to save the Spoon-billed Sandpiper from extinction.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/10/22/s...
The blog was written in 2020 and has been added to several times.
#ConservationScience🌍
Using science 🧪 to try to save the Spoon-billed Sandpiper from extinction.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/10/22/s...
The blog was written in 2020 and has been added to several times.
#ConservationScience🌍
Trees do not make good neighbours, if you're a breeding wader.
Three relevant blogs from 10 years of Wader Tales.
1️⃣ North of Scotland
wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/06/19/t...
2️⃣ Estonia
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/03/16/k...
3️⃣ Iceland
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/06/18/i...
#ConservationScience🌍
Three relevant blogs from 10 years of Wader Tales.
1️⃣ North of Scotland
wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/06/19/t...
2️⃣ Estonia
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/03/16/k...
3️⃣ Iceland
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/06/18/i...
#ConservationScience🌍
September 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Trees do not make good neighbours, if you're a breeding wader.
Three relevant blogs from 10 years of Wader Tales.
1️⃣ North of Scotland
wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/06/19/t...
2️⃣ Estonia
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/03/16/k...
3️⃣ Iceland
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/06/18/i...
#ConservationScience🌍
Three relevant blogs from 10 years of Wader Tales.
1️⃣ North of Scotland
wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/06/19/t...
2️⃣ Estonia
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/03/16/k...
3️⃣ Iceland
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/06/18/i...
#ConservationScience🌍
If you read this blog about what happens to shorebirds when the mud disappears:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/10/15/w...
... you may be interested in this paper about how sea level rise can change sediment area available for feeding waders:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#ConservationScience🌍
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/10/15/w...
... you may be interested in this paper about how sea level rise can change sediment area available for feeding waders:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#ConservationScience🌍
Changes in tidal dynamics in response to sea level rise in the Sylt-Rømø Bight (Wadden Sea) - Ocean Dynamics
The Wadden Sea is a complex coastal system where sea level rise (SLR), tidal dynamics, and geomorphology interact non-linearly. Today, the functioning of coastal ecosystems and their services in this ...
link.springer.com
May 13, 2025 at 7:20 AM
If you read this blog about what happens to shorebirds when the mud disappears:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/10/15/w...
... you may be interested in this paper about how sea level rise can change sediment area available for feeding waders:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#ConservationScience🌍
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/10/15/w...
... you may be interested in this paper about how sea level rise can change sediment area available for feeding waders:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#ConservationScience🌍
Best bits of Iceland for waders.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/i...
New WaderTales blog - Number 150 🥳
Paper by Verónica Méndez et al
#ConservationScience🌍
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/i...
New WaderTales blog - Number 150 🥳
Paper by Verónica Méndez et al
#ConservationScience🌍
August 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Best bits of Iceland for waders.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/i...
New WaderTales blog - Number 150 🥳
Paper by Verónica Méndez et al
#ConservationScience🌍
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/i...
New WaderTales blog - Number 150 🥳
Paper by Verónica Méndez et al
#ConservationScience🌍
Great to see new wild bird indicators for Europe published today pecbms.info/european-wil... as well as individual trends for 170 bird species pecbms.info/trends-of-wi.... Produced from volunteer-collected data from 30 countries - congrats to the PECBMS team #ornithology #conservationscience🌍
European Wild Bird Indices, 2024 update | PECBMS
The Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) presents a set of updated European Wild Bird Indices (indicators) covering 1980–2023. The outputs, based on data for 168 wild bird species, come...
pecbms.info
December 11, 2024 at 11:58 AM
Great to see new wild bird indicators for Europe published today pecbms.info/european-wil... as well as individual trends for 170 bird species pecbms.info/trends-of-wi.... Produced from volunteer-collected data from 30 countries - congrats to the PECBMS team #ornithology #conservationscience🌍
Seems like elephants object to small carnivore monitoring! 🤣😤
Elephants 🐘 - 1
Mostela 📸 - 0
A nice trunk selfie at least for the trouble! 🤣🐘
#mammals
#conservationscience 🌍
#elephants
Elephants 🐘 - 1
Mostela 📸 - 0
A nice trunk selfie at least for the trouble! 🤣🐘
#mammals
#conservationscience 🌍
#elephants
December 13, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Seems like elephants object to small carnivore monitoring! 🤣😤
Elephants 🐘 - 1
Mostela 📸 - 0
A nice trunk selfie at least for the trouble! 🤣🐘
#mammals
#conservationscience 🌍
#elephants
Elephants 🐘 - 1
Mostela 📸 - 0
A nice trunk selfie at least for the trouble! 🤣🐘
#mammals
#conservationscience 🌍
#elephants
WaderTales blogs were read in 80 countries in May.
The most widely downloaded tale highlights some of the latest results from wader/shorebird tracking:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/m...
#ConservationScience🌍
Map shows tracks of one Whimbrel monitored for several years by Camilo Carneiro et al
The most widely downloaded tale highlights some of the latest results from wader/shorebird tracking:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/m...
#ConservationScience🌍
Map shows tracks of one Whimbrel monitored for several years by Camilo Carneiro et al
June 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
WaderTales blogs were read in 80 countries in May.
The most widely downloaded tale highlights some of the latest results from wader/shorebird tracking:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/m...
#ConservationScience🌍
Map shows tracks of one Whimbrel monitored for several years by Camilo Carneiro et al
The most widely downloaded tale highlights some of the latest results from wader/shorebird tracking:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/m...
#ConservationScience🌍
Map shows tracks of one Whimbrel monitored for several years by Camilo Carneiro et al
Pesticide exposure in farmland wild passerines: bio-indicators of a widespread contamination despite organic farming | doi.org/10.1016/j.en... | Environmental Research | #ornithology #environmental 🪶
August 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Pleased to get this certificate from @jappliedecology.bsky.social for Reversing declines in farmland birds: How much agri-environment provision is needed at farm & landscape scales? @rspbscience.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #TopViewedArticle #Ecology #Ornithology
April 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
3️⃣/3️⃣
We are going to see more papers about breeding densities of nesting waders, based on remote monitoring of calls and displays.
Paper by Jarrett and Willis reminds us that we need to think about behaviour:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/04/c...
#ConservationScience🌍
We are going to see more papers about breeding densities of nesting waders, based on remote monitoring of calls and displays.
Paper by Jarrett and Willis reminds us that we need to think about behaviour:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/04/c...
#ConservationScience🌍
October 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM
3️⃣/3️⃣
We are going to see more papers about breeding densities of nesting waders, based on remote monitoring of calls and displays.
Paper by Jarrett and Willis reminds us that we need to think about behaviour:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/04/c...
#ConservationScience🌍
We are going to see more papers about breeding densities of nesting waders, based on remote monitoring of calls and displays.
Paper by Jarrett and Willis reminds us that we need to think about behaviour:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/04/c...
#ConservationScience🌍
Avian Composition in Selected Wetlands Within the Hadejia-Jamaare River Basin, Nigeria. 2025.
Hafiz Adam Abdullahi, et al.
Waterbirds 48 (1), 1-9, (19 June 2025) doi.org/10.1675/063....
#ornithology🐦
#conservationscience🌍
Hafiz Adam Abdullahi, et al.
Waterbirds 48 (1), 1-9, (19 June 2025) doi.org/10.1675/063....
#ornithology🐦
#conservationscience🌍
June 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Avian Composition in Selected Wetlands Within the Hadejia-Jamaare River Basin, Nigeria. 2025.
Hafiz Adam Abdullahi, et al.
Waterbirds 48 (1), 1-9, (19 June 2025) doi.org/10.1675/063....
#ornithology🐦
#conservationscience🌍
Hafiz Adam Abdullahi, et al.
Waterbirds 48 (1), 1-9, (19 June 2025) doi.org/10.1675/063....
#ornithology🐦
#conservationscience🌍
#ConservationScience🌍
Broad-billed Sandpiper recently moved to @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social Red List.
What do we know so far about this 'vulnerable' wader?
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/08/b...
Summary of 2 papers in @waderstudy.bsky.social
Broad-billed Sandpiper recently moved to @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social Red List.
What do we know so far about this 'vulnerable' wader?
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/08/b...
Summary of 2 papers in @waderstudy.bsky.social
December 10, 2024 at 6:27 AM
#ConservationScience🌍
Broad-billed Sandpiper recently moved to @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social Red List.
What do we know so far about this 'vulnerable' wader?
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/08/b...
Summary of 2 papers in @waderstudy.bsky.social
Broad-billed Sandpiper recently moved to @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social Red List.
What do we know so far about this 'vulnerable' wader?
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/08/b...
Summary of 2 papers in @waderstudy.bsky.social
It was a pleasure to be involved with this recent NAS effort and it's well worth a look!
🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐 🐋 🦬🌿
#conservationscience
#EcologyandConservation
#biodiversity
#conservationscience
#conservation
#earthobs
#remotesensing
#global
🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐 🐋 🦬🌿
#conservationscience
#EcologyandConservation
#biodiversity
#conservationscience
#conservation
#earthobs
#remotesensing
#global
September 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
It was a pleasure to be involved with this recent NAS effort and it's well worth a look!
🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐 🐋 🦬🌿
#conservationscience
#EcologyandConservation
#biodiversity
#conservationscience
#conservation
#earthobs
#remotesensing
#global
🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐 🐋 🦬🌿
#conservationscience
#EcologyandConservation
#biodiversity
#conservationscience
#conservation
#earthobs
#remotesensing
#global
16th horizon scan of #conservation issues - including record-low #Antarctic sea ice - and emerging solutions, by @billsutherland.bsky.social and others.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#conservationscience🌍
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#conservationscience🌍
December 12, 2024 at 9:40 PM
16th horizon scan of #conservation issues - including record-low #Antarctic sea ice - and emerging solutions, by @billsutherland.bsky.social and others.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#conservationscience🌍
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#conservationscience🌍