🌵 We support strategic cases around the world so that – when nature is harmed – plaintiffs can take action to create accountability and secure remedies.

Today we can share details about an important cases, moving ahead in Italy’s Court of Ancona to protect endangered #cacti

UNEP-WCMC is pleased to release the Biodiversity Information System Framework Tool, an interactive tool designed to help identify the strong and weak links and capacity development needs in an information system for any #biodiversity subject: eu1.hubs.ly/H08FxZv0 🛠️🌱🏞️

Here's the paper on which my talk at today's #landusesummit is based: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Some recent media reports regarding the role of Natural England in the protection of a colony of Barbastelle Bats living on the route of a proposed road in Norfolk has been incorrect. This blog sets out what the law & government policies require us to do naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2024/04/16/pro…

Nell Miles ZSL Oxford Biology Nathalie Pettorelli Matthew Gould British Ecological Society ICCS Nat Duffus ZSL Science ZSL Conservation Congratulations, Nell! We’re proud to be working with you and colleagues across University of Oxford on the #CANBill campaign. 👏 #LandUseSummit

What does #CASCADE set out to do?

“Our mission is to help academia understand the evidence we have & the evidence we need to achieve transformative change...”

“There’s something deeper & more introspective to consider - what can we do for the wider world?”

EJ Milner-Gulland

Jared Kushner Has Big Plans for Delta of Europe's Last Wild River | via Yale Environment 360

Albania’s Vjosë River is a haven for migratory birds. As plans for luxury developments there move ahead, conservationists are sounding the alarm.

e360.yale.edu/features/jared…

📢💼 UNEP-WCMC seeks a highly-skilled Programme Officer to join our Policy team and support the organisation in areas focussed on #humanrights and traditional knowledge, particularly concerning #IndigenousPeoples and local communities.

Apply here: eu1.hubs.ly/H08xyf80

Striking stats in excellent Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery talk by David Obura, showing global inequality in responsibility and impacts of climate change, from wid.world/wp-content/upl…. The wealthiest countries must drastically reduce their emissions for a just transition to a sustainable future

Our new nature paper about how unmapped 'ghost roads' are having a huge environmental impact, which is missed by many human impact metrics. Led by #ECR superstar Jayden Engert

Assessment of CITES CoP19 decisions on pangolins: prioritise indigenous peoples & local communities in design of rules & regs rather than northern governments & animal protection NGOs: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cs… Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) Oxford Martin School Oxford Biology Matt Shirley

🌿 Save the Date! 📢 Exciting news! Join us at the Conservation Social Science Online Conference from November 20-23, 2024! 🔍 Abstract Submissions will open soon.
📆 Abstract Submission Deadline: May 30, 2024
More details: lnkd.in/e8pXecst
🌎 #ConSocSci #SSWG

MORE GOOD NEWS: focusing incentives and rewarding farms based on outcomes, rather than farm types, could have huge benefits to people, the planet and our pigs. 3/5

🐷New paper in Nature Food🐷

THE BAD NEWS: overall, we found trade-offs. Farms with lower GHGs had lower land use, but higher antimicrobial use and poorer welfare.

THE GOOD NEWS: trade-offs weren't inevitable. Several farms performed well in all four ways. 1/5

In Pin valley, migratory livestock share pastures seasonally with the ibex. Focussing on gastro-intestinal nematodes (GINs) as determinants of health in ungulates, we hypothesized that infection on pastures would increase over summer from contamination by migrating livestock.

New paper alert! 🚨
'Predicting and reducing potential parasites infection between migratory livestock and resident Asiatic Ibex of Pin valley, India' 🐐🐑
link.springer.com/article/10.100…

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✅Varied, interesting work
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Super cool job for a post-doc or research assistant at University of Oxford Oxford Martin School Oxford Biology with HESTIA Farm Sustainability Toolkit, EJ Milner-Gulland and me.