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olliewearn.bsky.social
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🌍
November 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
blackdogbirder.bsky.social
Cessation of grouse moor management and climate change scenarios are both predicted to drive declines in Red Grouse, Curlew and Golden Plover. Our paper in @jappliedecology.bsky.social, led by Tom Mason, combines these factors in modelling future population trends.

#conservationscience🌎
Infographic showing predicted impacts of management and climate change on Red Grouse, Curlew and Golden Plover.
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
nsnaturetrust.bsky.social
We’re proud to share that we have added another 35 acres to that remarkable Blanche Peninsula. Read the full story: nsnt.ca/blog/more-pr...

📸 Photo credit: Simon D'Entremont
#ConservationScience 🌎 #EcologyandConservation #Birds
Bank Swallow siting on a stump, with head turned. Credit: Simon d'Entremont Piping Plover juvenile, standing on a beach that is a mix of sand and rock. It is well camouflaged. Credit: Simon d'Entremont Barn Swallows in flight. Credit: Simon d'Entremont
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
olliewearn.bsky.social
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
November 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
wildanimalhealth.bsky.social
🌍 This One Health Day, the Wild Animal Health Fund celebrates the vital link between wildlife, people, and our shared planet.

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#OneHealthDay #WildAnimalHealthFund #OneHealth #WildlifeResearch #ConservationScience #AAZV #WAHF
November 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
earthlens.bsky.social
Biologists, inspired by spiders, are developing artificial webs to capture airborne DNA, revolutionizing biodiversity monitoring amidst a global biodiversity crisis. 🌿🕸️ Link: https://tinyurl.com/222w3dq9 #BiodiversityLoss #EcosystemMonitoring #ConservationScience
November 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
wadertales.bsky.social
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🌍
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
envconsjournal.bsky.social
Does the evidence of Brazil nut trees support the notion that conservation through sustainable use can maintain Amazonian megadiversity?

See this literature review on 'Bertholletia excelsa' in the latest #EnvironmentalConservation #conservationscience🌎

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Amazonian forest conservation through sustainable use: evidence based on Brazil nut life histories linked to human occupation | Environmental Conservation | Cambridge Core
Amazonian forest conservation through sustainable use: evidence based on Brazil nut life histories linked to human occupation - Volume 52 Issue 3
www.cambridge.org
October 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
wadertales.bsky.social
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🌍
October 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
olliewearn.bsky.social
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
envconsjournal.bsky.social
This new Perspective article in #EnvironmentalConservation considers the 'One Health' challenges (ensuring the well-being of people, animals and the environment) associated with the increased discharge of #disinfectants into #wastewater.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#conservationscience🌎
Disinfection resistance in wastewater influents: data gaps and One Health concept challenges | Environmental Conservation | Cambridge Core
Disinfection resistance in wastewater influents: data gaps and One Health concept challenges
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October 17, 2025 at 9:12 AM
gypsyj.bsky.social
Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) - Extinct - 10 October 2025; another bird has gone extinct.

Read the full story
lnkd.in/ecR2QnH6

#ornitholohy🐦 🪶
#evosky
#conservationscience🌎
Photo: One of the last Slender-billed Curlews, photographed by Michel Brosselin on 15 February 1968 in Vendée, France.
October 13, 2025 at 3:47 AM
avianscience2.bsky.social
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🌍
Black Terns (Chlidonias niger)on nest, always a fan favorite,
October 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
wadertales.bsky.social
'Moult, captured on camera'
WaderTales blog #151
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/m...
Full catalogue:
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#ConservationScience🌍
October 10, 2025 at 6:53 AM
bto-ni.bsky.social
🐏 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🌍
Sheep Island. Photo by Sorrel Lyall / BTO Camera trap set up on Sheep Island. Photo by Sorrel Lyall / BTO Members of the BTO Northern Ireland team retrieving camera traps from Sheep Island. Photo by Nia Potapova / BTO Cormorants by Edmund Fellowes / BTO
September 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
wadertales.bsky.social
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🌍
September 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
envconsjournal.bsky.social
'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🌍
September 24, 2025 at 8:41 AM
envconsjournal.bsky.social
Have you seen the Themed Collections at #EnvironmentalConservation - with growing collections of themed research articles?

'Mammal Wildlife Conservation'

'Multi-dimensionality of the Biodiversity Crisis'

'Invasive Species'

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#conservation #conservationscience🌏
Multi-dimensionality of the biodiversity crisis
Multi-dimensionality of the biodiversity crisis
www.cambridge.org
September 23, 2025 at 8:14 AM
wadertales.bsky.social
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🌍
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
wadertales.bsky.social
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🌍
September 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
tonygill.bsky.social
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/resource/doc...

tldr: The CCV steelhead DPS should remain listed as threatened.
🌎 #conservationscience
2024 5-Year Review: Summary & Evaluation of California Central Valley Steelhead
Five-year reviews describe whether recovery is on track in the context of the recovery plan, explain what the most significant accomplishments have been over the previous five years, and identify the ...
www.fisheries.noaa.gov
January 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM
wadertales.bsky.social
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🌍
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
livthezoologist.bsky.social
Calibrating new mini tech for tracking social interaction & movement of the bandeds in a complex enviro like QENP is a challenge, but cheers to the hippo that cleared this path for easier testing!

#movementecology #animalbehaviour #africanmammals #conservation #conservationscience
May 4, 2025 at 7:07 AM
raincoast.org
A Secret Called Wolf: Pack Recolonizes BC’s Lower Mainland #wolves #ConservationScience thewanderingrook.ca/2025/08/01/a...
A Secret Called Wolf: Pack Recolonizes BC’s Lower Mainland
In May of 2023, biologist Chelsea Greer was bent over a camera trap, one of several dozen scattered over 200 km2 of British Columbia’s Lower Mainland. This particular trap hugged a river known for …
thewanderingrook.ca
August 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
earthlens.bsky.social
AI is transforming park reviews into valuable data, offering new insights for environmental science and conservation efforts. 🌿🧠 Link: https://tinyurl.com/26vmf8vm #AIInnovation #ConservationScience #EnvironmentalData
August 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM