Great piece by Hayley Clements & Alta De Vos on S. Africa's controversial National Biodiversity Economy Strategy. Helped me understand it better and how it tries to enhance the relevance of biodiversity conservation to the average South African. theconversation.com/south-africas-…

Happy to share our new paper on how patterns of human-carnivore conflict vary by carnivore species and livestock species (alongside Hwange NP, Zimbabwe)

Read here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pa…

Excellent work - we are actually VERY uncertain about global trends in biodiversity. I wonder how we balance strict measure of certainty (95% CI) with the need to act based on the best available data. Maybe probability that a population is incr/decr rather than simple yes/no?

An excellent opportunity

Excellent article. Agriculture as the main driver of habitats and biodiversity loss both recently and for the last 10 000 years. What’s the way forward?

Today, we’re launching a new, additional article format on Our World in Data.

We are calling it “Data Insights”. It's a very short format of just one chart and the takeaway from it — a bit like a tweet.

We hope you like it!
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Guys I’m leaving academia and becoming a billboard model

Please share this widely and if you have any sightings from the Eastern Cape, please submit them! 🐆🐾🇿🇦

Great prizes available and it will really help one of our Wildlife Ecology Lab students with his PhD!

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Very excited to be at my first Savannah Science Network Meeting at Kruger NP, South Africa. Awesome to see old friends, my undergrad lecturers, one of my PhD students, collaborators, colleagues and new faces. Thanks SANParks, SANParksKNP and #SSNM2024

If you are interested in inter-specific interactions and camera traps, check out my first article just published in Ecology. Or have a look at this thread describing what we did! 🧵 Jan A Venter 🇿🇦 Michael Somers
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One minute of #biodiversity of southeastern #Iran - far from any protected areas, an amazing assemblage of carnivores from Asiatic black #bear & Persian #leopard to Blanford’s #fox & stone #marten live in a harsh arid environment that is increasingly threatened by climate change

Some exciting postdocs, well paid, in a beautiful city and with a world class team Nick Simpson Christopher Trisos ICCS SEEC

Wonderful news Max. Let’s do some applied research together. I’ll soon be based MandelaUni George as an academic :) Wishing you all the best in SA. Sadza will always trump pap, never forget that. If you know you know

Great work!

🆕Published today, our new Marion Island Seals IPM/t-LTRE elephant seal paper, superbly led by Murray Christian. The paper uses Gaussian Process priors to provide ‘local’ regularisation while estimating the contribution of immigration to population dynamics besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…