The powerful fires scorching France and Spain are breaking records - and there are still months to go in the fire season go.nature.com/4xaW2Yn

Fires in Europe are breaking records: here’s what the future holds

Nature - Countries such as Spain and France can expect fire regimes more like those of California as climate change favours hot, dry conditions, scientists suggest.

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Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency

David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”

The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.

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The final figures for the 2025/26 cull season have now been released, bringing more than a decade of licensed badger culling to an end. Read our latest article examining the newly published figures, and why future efforts to tackle bTB should focus on cattle: buff.ly/JKyk7AF

Super excited to share that my latest paper from my PhD is now published! 🎉 If you're into camera traps, citizen science, animal individual ID or pine martens this ones for you! 😆 doi.org/10.1002/rse2... Big thanks to my co-authors and everyone who in the MammalWeb community who contributed! 📷

Citizen Science for Individual Identification of Pine Martens Martes martes From Camera Trap Footage

Camera traps generate large volumes of wildlife footage, but identifying animals to the individual level remains challenging and time-consuming. Using European pine martens in the Forest of Dean as a....

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Wonderful! Landscape scale ecological restoration. Carrifran, Scotland 🌳 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Aug 2004 - July 2026

Give nature a voice in the Scottish Government before it’s too late ⏰ Scotland has dedicated ministers for health, education, transport, and finance. It's time we had a dedicated #MinisterForNature Add your name to @scotrewilding.bsky.social open letter 👉

Scotland Needs a Nature Minister

This year Scotland signed off on the Natural Environment Act, setting up a framework to create nature recovery targets. Now, it’s up to the new government to create targets that will lead to the…

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Interested in animal urbanization and human wildlife co-existence, join our team this fall 👇🏼

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🚨🐒Join the Urban Vervet Project! We are currently looking for a research assistant to strengthen our on-site team at the beautiful Simbithi Eco Estate in South Africa. More info below 👇 @sofiaforss.bsky.social

Leading big team science as early-career researchers: challenges and solutions. Read more: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... #ECRs #RSOS

Feeling incredibly grateful to be presenting at such an important conference in the same city where I completed my master's degree. This is where I used to dream about doing the kind of work I have the privilege to do today @isbe2026.bsky.social

Can behaviour and cognition support conservation efforts? 🐭💡🌍In this new paper we offer some insights into how dietary innovation and neophobia can help assess small mammals' responses to human disturbance in a protected area. It was a long journey, but I'm so proud of this! doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

🚨*New Paper Alert*🚨 Excited to share our latest paper, published today in @asab.org, showing that #exploration and #problem-solving behaviours in #wild red #foxes are explained by length, not rate, of #urbanisation 🦊🧠🧩🌃 #CoexistProject Link to paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

Yesterday we shared the paper. Today I want to share the story behind it. We thought it was all about climate change. Then the models failed. That failure eventually led us to disturbances, and to a very different view of Europe’s flora. Read it @ communities.springernature.com/posts/europe...

Europe’s flora is living in a landscape out of Equilibrium

99% of plant distributions in Europe show signs of disequilibrium. The surprise? Climate change was only part of the story. Disturbance emerged as an even more pervasive force shaping where species oc...

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Sean Pang@seh-pang.bsky.social · 4w ago

Almost every European plant species is out of equilibrium. Climate change is only part of the story—disturbance greatly shapes where species actually occur. 🚨Our new paper 🌱in @natecoevo.nature.com analysed 3,047 species across >1.1M European vegetation plots. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are excited to announce that #Behaviour2027 (XXXIX International Ethological Congress) will be taking place in Vienna, Austria! We are looking forward to having you all join us next year from August 23-27. Please follow and share!

Birdsong & the richness we’ve laid (are laying) waste to. An astonishing, heartbreaking demonstration of shifting baseline syndrome, & what I remember. Wrote about this @environment.theguardian.com + a real recording made in my village by a fierce & wonderful woman conservationist in 1975. 1/3

Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years

Guardian recreates audio landscape of past filled by loud morning symphony before 73m wild birds were lost

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Many of you will be aware of the amazing sighting of a Pine Marten in a Worthing garden recently (cue Lady Bracknell voice "A PIIIIIINE MARTEN?"). Read Species Recovery Manager Fran's thoughts about this  https://sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/pine-marten-in-worthing-the-best-laid-plans

🚨New primate urbanization paper🚨We looked at weather anthropogenic experiences link to within population innovativeness. Our new results from @urbanvervetproject.bsky.social can be found here 👇🏼 Behavioral flexibility and its drivers in semi-urban vervet monkeys academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

Behavioral flexibility and its drivers in semi-urban vervet monkeys

Monkeys bring their own skills to the city. Urban animals are often seen as especially flexible or innovative—but do urban environments make them that way?

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So honoured our 2025 paper on #human-nature connectedness and public experiences with #wild red #foxes is the most read of the journal this year: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #CoexistProject 🦊🍃🌳

Experiencing the wild: red fox encounters are related to stronger nature connectedness, not anxiety, in people

Frequent and positive wildlife experiences can strengthen people’s physical and mental connection with nature, potentially improving public health and pro-environmental behaviors. Red foxes are the...

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In Spain today: installation of solar panels above major irrigation channels. Channels of more than 100 kms transport water from dams to farmland. - Reduces evaporation -Provides large agricultural areas with power & supports irrigation -Decreases use of water in food production, doubling the crop.

The longest day means wildlife is busy dawn to dusk. Here’s what to spot if you get outside this #SummerSolstice. 🌞 Dawn chorus starts before sunrise.🐦 Butterflies are out in force all day. 🦋 Fox cubs playing near their dens. 🦊 Badgers emerge as light fades. 🦡

Wolves have made a spectacular comeback in Europe. But attacks on livestock and humans have caused a heated debate about the limits of coexistence. https://scim.ag/4ekk1hk

Wolves are reconquering Europe. Can people learn to live with them?

As populations rebound, attacks on livestock and humans are fueling debate over the limits of coexistence

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Field stations are the inspirational lifeblood of many research projects, providing essential facilities and infrastructure, and in our new Perspective series researchers from across the globe tell us about the incredible field stations where they work journals.biologists.com/jeb/collecti...

🚨Au CEEC @ceec-research.bsky.social on recrute un.e stagiaire sur la cognition des milans noirs 🚨 Debut du projet: Septembre 2026 Date limite des candidatures: 6 Juillet 14h 🐦 Plus d'infos: tinyurl.com/2xsyt7tb

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Good News: ☀️ Solar just beat coal in U.S. electricity for the FIRST time ever, and it happened in spite of Trump, not because of him. The kicker? Red states he won built 74% of the new solar. Even Texas knows the future isn’t coal. The market voted. Solar is winning.

Good news! Ministers have finally given green light to new #NaturalHistory GCSE. We’ve campaigned so long for this! Big hats off to tireless advocate Mary Colwell 🙌 Now our young people will have a chance to get to know & love the natural world, to feel awe & wonder, & gain skills to protect it 🌷🌳🦡

Natural history GCSE to teach teenagers to plant wildflower-friendly gardens

Long-awaited course to examine human effects on natural world and explore everyday ways to aid biodiversity

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"France passed a single law and instantly unlocked 11 gigawatts of #solarenergy — without using new land. In 2023, France's government mandated solar canopies over all car parks larger than 80 spaces. The scale was enormous: There are 400,000 parking areas across France #ActOnClimate #Renewables

#Biodiversity loss & #ClimateChange are both driven by human economic activities & mutually reinforce each other How can we successfully resolve both crises? Following #WorldEnvironmentDay, learn more #BiodiversityClimateScience from IPBES & IPCC co-sponsored Report

#HotOffThePress 🔥🖊️ "Fluctuations in direct human presence, not predictable weekly cycles, influence avoidance behaviour in ravens"🐦‍⬛ June 2026. Movement Ecology. @varalikajain.bsky.social, @matthiasloretto.bsky.social, Thomas Bugnyar & @pesumas.bsky.social doi.org/10.1186/s404...

Fluctuations in direct human presence, not predictable weekly cycles, influence avoidance behaviour in ravens - Movement Ecology

Background Rhythms in human activity create patterns of opportunities and disturbances for wildlife, influencing their behaviour and spatial ecology. The weekend effect hypothesis posits that weekday-weekend routines in human activity can impact wildlife in creating cyclic conditions. At our study site – an outdoor wildlife park – free-flying ravens opportunistically exploit food intended for captive animals on a routine basis. While disturbances from visitor activity levels are typically low on weekdays and high on weekends, they can also vary day-to-day. Our access to data detailing visitor numbers makes our context well-suited to test whether ravens anticipate and respond to predictable weekday-weekend patterns following (1) a ‘5 + 2’ structure, or if they respond (2) flexibly to fluctuations in direct human activity levels. By testing the weekend effect hypothesis from the perspective of a ‘5 + 2’ pattern versus flexibly responding to fluctuations in human activity, we better understand wildlife response strategies to human activity. Methods Using long-term GPS tracking data, we investigated the weekend effect hypothesis by examining raven foraging probability and space use across two temporal scales: (1) daily patterns over five years, encompassing periods of Covid-19 pandemic-related restrictions, and (2) bihourly patterns over six weeks. We hypothesized that increased human activity levels would result in lower foraging probabilities and higher space use in ravens, varying between weekdays and weekends. Results Our findings provided limited support for the weekend effect hypothesis, considering a ‘5 + 2’ pattern in human activity. However, ravens consistently avoided elevated human activity by decreasing in their probability of foraging at the site and increasing space use on a daily level. Conclusions Our study reveals that ravens are behaviourally flexible in their movement responses to disturbance when exploiting anthropogenically created foraging opportunities. Changes influencing anthropogenic resources and disturbances at resources should consider the potential knock-on effects to wildlife.

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Important work on bush meat. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

No safe refuge? Contrasting effects of hunting on rainforest mammal persistence and (re)colonisation

Our results imply that hunting not only targets areas used as refuges by wildlife, but also reduces recolonisation potential and may therefore alter source–sink dynamics. We recommend spatially targe...

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So pleased our new paper on the impact of long-term #urban exposure on #fox #boldness, #exploration, and #innovation has been accepted for a talk at #ECBB2026 and accepted in the journal #ASAB 🦊 🌃 🧠 🧩 Preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2025... #CoexistProject