Bibek Raj Shrestha

@bibekrajshrestha.bsky.social

Ecologist from Himalaya. PhD Researcher at UEA. Interested in understanding socio-ecological linkages of protected area effectiveness and impacts of linear infrastructures to biodiversity.

In 2019, I asked him how we prioritize nature when people are facing poverty and daily crisis. He shared - "It is more economically sensible to look after the natural world, to take from it what you need, and no more." His advice still is the heart of my PhD! Happy 100th, Sir David. 🐢🏔️

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A month ago: me running @ueaceec.bsky.social for #CEECRebellion2026 😅 → finding the “right” emoji 😁 → posting every 20 mins → praying there are no typos Huge thanks to @gargi93.bsky.social for cool designs 🎨 and @natbzielonka.bsky.social for the push and ideas 💡 🙏🏼 What an experience 🌿

UEA CEEC@ueaceec.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🌿 That’s a wrap for #CEECRebellion2026 !! Thank you to all our speakers from BIO and ENV, our invited guests, and MSc/PhD students for sharing their research through talks and posters, and for making this event so engaging. See you next year 👋 — CEEC Rebellion 2026 Organising Committee

"The collaboration continues. Our theme group meetings now stretch across time zones, busy schedules, and disciplinary differences. But that is also the beauty of interdisciplinary work: it stretches you, and it reminds you that meaningful research is built slowly, with patience and care."

Bibek's reflections on ICN 2025 - ICCS

Written by Bibek Raj Shrestha, a participant in this year’s Interdisciplinary Conservation Network.   Arrivals and excitement With the onset of October, I was excited to be heading to South Africa to ...

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NEW: For The Guardian, I spent a week in Kerala few weeks ago, for a story on a special place where a bunch indigenous and local women are cultivating and preserving rare and endemic wild plant species in one of the world's hottest biodiversity hotspots! www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Meet Kerala’s ‘rainforest gardeners’ creating a Noah’s ark for endangered plants

In one of the world’s ‘hottest hotspots’ of biodiversity, an all-female team have turned a patch of forest into a haven for orchids, ferns, succulents and carnivorous plants

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If you are a domestic student interested in working on insect migration/conservation or citizen science @monashbiol.bsky.social, please reach out ASAP. The domestic round deadline is May 31st. You can find more about our research interests here. shawanchowdhury.com.

Shawan Chowdhury@shawan-chowdhury.bsky.social · last yr.

Please share. We are hiring domestic/international #PhD students to work on citizen science, insect migration/conservation at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. If interested, please email me. You can find more about our research interests here. shawanchowdhury.com.

Great news - the Art Institute of Chicago today announced it will return this gorgeous 11/12th century sculpture of the Buddha in meditation, sheltered by the serpent king Muchalinda, to Nepal! Bad news - well... everything else? Let me take you on a lil' journey.

stone sculpture of the Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda