Das Bündnis zur Stärkung der Weidetierhaltung ist auf 174 Organisationen angewachsen. 💪 BMUKN und 50% der Länderministerien (Umwelt & Agrar) lobten das. Wir warten aber noch auf konkrete Maßnahmen & lauschen dem Schweigen des BMLEH. 👂🙉 #Beweidung hilft Weidetieren, der Natur & sogar gegen #Feuer! 🔥

Sabrina Schulz@auenatelier.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Wir haben mit über 80 Verbänden aus Land- & Weidewirtschaft, Naturschutz & Landschaftspflege ein Positionspapier veröffentlicht und fordern von #BMLEH & #BMUKN eine Weidestrategie, bessere Förderung und ein Bekenntnis zur Bedeutung von #Beweidung für #Artenvielfalt. 🐂💪 www.abl-ev.de/fileadmin/us...

What we actually need is a big roll-out of ecological infrastructure. 'New' Herbivore migrations should be playing a huge role here in reconnecting and improving all existing habitats.

Convention on Migratory Species (CMS)@cms.int · last wk.

Where and how infrastructure is built can make a big difference for migratory species as it can cut across migration routes, fragment habitats, weaken ecological connectivity, and even create acoustic disturbances. However, these risks can be reduced. Learn more: www.cms.int/publication/...

New publication in ECOLOGY @esajournals.bsky.social TENERIFE LIZARDS AS SEED PREDATORS doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... 🔓 Lizards are well known as pollinators and seed dispersers, but until now their role as granivores has remained largely overlooked Play the 🎦 + ⬆️ 🔈 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeKe...

Seed predation (granivory) by Tenerife lizards

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Did you know a barrister is facing jail just for reminding a jury they have the right to vote with their conscience? This historic right has kept trials fair since 1670. We can't let it be silenced now. Add your name to defend fair trials👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Sign to protect the right to a fair trial

Imagine being called for jury duty, but advised against using your own common sense. ❗A top barrister is now facing contempt of court proceedings, simply for reminding a jury of their rights. If judg...

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How do we scale up & scale out agroecology across Europe? Researchers, farmers, policymakers & practitioners tackled that question at @agtransect.bsky.social final event in Brussels Full recordings are available, including discussions on: • lessons from 11 Innovation Hubs 👉 doi.org/10.1007/s116...

New paper out! 🦏💩🌿 Stop thinking the carbon cycle is just a plant thing. Megaherbivores actively reshape C-N-P, by eating, pooping, and trampling. So why are they stil invisible in most vegetation models? 🤔 We reviewed the evidence and propose a way to bring animals into DGVM👇

Functional Ecology@funecology.bsky.social · 2w ago

📰Published📰Why animals matter for Earth system models: Including large mammalian herbivores🌍️ buff.ly/JBlh0Rj 🧪

Vegetation Structures and Herbivores. It's all about vegetation structures and herbivores. Get these two things working and everything else then just falls into place.

ARK Rewilding Nederland@ark-rewildingnl.bsky.social · 2w ago

The thorny bush is the mother of the oak, as @fransvera.bsky.social put it. @billsutherland.bsky.social and @leolinnartz.bsky.social are out in the field to explore exactly this youtu.be/IxHLy6uh4-w?...

Important read for animal welfare researchers: new paper by Roi Mandel and colleagues on what they term ‘pragmatism bias’, i.e. tendencies to focus on intensive production systems, short-term gains, and symptoms rather than root causes. It is time for a change if we want to widen our knowledge!

Frontiers | Pragmatism bias in farm animal welfare science

A fundamental role of farm animal welfare science is to generate evidence-based knowledge on animals’ needs and well-being to inform decision-makers, and ult...

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🌎Can foundation models improve forest mapping? Our new study compares Sentinel-2 time series, AlphaEarth Foundations embeddings, and their fusion for forest type classification and tree cover estimation. isprs-annals.copernicus.org/articles/XI-...

A Lost Human Lineage May Have Left a Genetic Legacy in People Today @paleobae.bsky.social #evolution #evolutionsoup #fossil #science #paleoanthropology 👇🏼👇🏾 tinyurl.com/27d4uey6

At the beginning of July Gabri defended his PhD!! His paper was about the restoring of the European bison in contemporary landscapes. Congratulations on a truly impactful research, great results and a great defense!! #phd #defense #dissertation #congratulations #bison #biogeography #rewilding

For recent and current ground breaking research on the Clacton Spear and related technology follow @annemiekemilks.bsky.social research.reading.ac.uk/engagement-a... scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=e...

Making a point: early wood technologies of the British Isles - Engagement and Impact

Microscopic analysis and advanced imaging of what could be the world’s oldest woodworked artefact, the Clacton spear, puts the skills of its Palaeolithic makers into sharper focus. Archaeologists from...

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Dr Matt Pope@mattpope.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hazzledine-Warren will be best remembered for the 1911 discovery of The Clacton Spear. 30cm long, made of yew, worked by stone tools, broken in antiquity. Preserved for 420,00 years in peaty mud on the Clacton-on-Sea foreshore. Its the oldest known wooden weapon in the world. #ClactonPrehistory 🦣🏺

Don't forget to check out @julianoeser.bsky.social's new paper published in @natecoevo.nature.com: doi.org/10.1038/s415... - based on a massive collaborative effort with partners from across Europe, we highlight why strongly increasing forest disturbances are good news for Europe’s large herbivores:

What can the latest fossil discoveries tell us about our origins — and why are we the only human species left? youtube.com/watch?v=YmN5...

The Biggest Mysteries of Human Evolution | Chris Stringer

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When I write an investigation, you only ever get a fraction of the story. There's so much more - context, detail, threads that don't make the final cut. Follow my Substact if you want field notes, opinion, analysis, follow-ups and more! open.substack.com/pub/watershe...

Forever chemicals, forever excuses: the Government just answered MPs' calls to act on toxic PFAS. It said no to almost everything.

I've spent five years investigating PFAS and have launched the Watershed substack to keep telling critical aspects of this story and others that don't make the mainstream news.

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We're seeking an Operations Coordinator to support our day-to-day operations, administrative functions, meetings/events, office systems, financial recordkeeping & staff support for travel. The role is full-time and on-site at our Bozeman, Montana, office. largelandscapes.org/careers/

@annieleymarie.bsky.social @funecology.bsky.social @jonastrepel.bsky.social Hi Annie, I'll do my best to answer the questions you asked. How much do you know about vegetation structures? Tell me what you know and then we can start from there.

👀Behind the Paper!👀 Author Jonas Trepel shares the role of large herbivores as key ecological players, the thorny side of fieldwork, and the importance of doing work that truly interests you🦏 Read it here👇️ buff.ly/pN9WIUX 🧪🌍️ @jonastrepel.bsky.social

Jonas Trepel | Keeping the grasses in check: Wild large herbivores promote plant diversity by reducing dominance

In this behind the Paper blog post, author Jonas Trepel – a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University – delves into the world of ecosystems engineers and discusses his paper “W…

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Watch the webinar recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU61... Download the Global Land Outlook Thematic Report on Ecological Connectivity and Land Restoration: www.unccd.int/resources/re...

Webinar: Socio-Ecological Connectivity

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We lost Kongjian last year in a tragic accident. But his vision lives on.

Erica Gies / SlowWater.world@ericagies.bsky.social · 2y ago

Mr. Sponge City, Kongjian Yu, makes cities porous to soften floods & droughts. I told his story, part of the 🌎 #slowwater movement, in my book "Water Always Wins." Now we & Dr. Warren Wood have a Comment in Nature Water on how to help stabilize the climate: a Sponge Planet. rdcu.be/d5ouG

🚨 new blog post! 🐘 read the story behind the paper, "elephant space use and habitat selection change across drought timescales" 📝 blog here: buff.ly/t1L3XwI

Media coverage: india.mongabay.com/2025/10/frag...

Fragmented forests and human disturbances create stress in Asian elephants

Free-ranging elephants living in human-dominated landscapes are foraging crops at a higher risk of physiological stress and unnatural death.

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Namibian desert elephants are adapted to the desert. I really liked this video! Here you can see, an elephant sliding down the dune! Seems like sliding down is one of the common behaviours while moving down hill! 🐘 Elephants behaving like "elephants"😎🤟🏽! #Namibia #Elephants #NamibElephants

Are #Asianelephants behaviourally flexible? If so, how costly can it be? Most elephant studies come from protected areas with minimal human impact! That’s not the whole story! Here's our perspective on redefining elephant behaviour in human-altered landscapes 🐘 doi.org/10.1111/eth....

Rethinking Behaviors of Free‐Ranging Asian Elephants in the Context of Human‐Altered Landscapes

Context-specific behavioral flexibility in free-ranging Asian elephants navigating human-altered landscapes.

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Caribou need your help! 🦌 For decades, scientists, Indigenous communities, conservation orgs, & even @alberta.ca's own biologists have reached the same conclusion: woodland caribou cannot recover without protecting & restoring the mature, undisturbed forests they depend on. →

Anticipating where European bison might come into conflict with agriculture, forestry, or traffic --> new paper led by Hendrik Bluhm now out in the @jappliedecology.bsky.social 🦬🦬👉 doi.org/10.1111/1365... #Bison #Wisent #Rewilding #Megafauna #Conflict @biogeoberlin.bsky.social

During our Grassy Mountain and the Threat of Coal Adventure, we climbed up to view the proposed mine site and see some of the water systems, landscapes, and species at risk which would be damaged if the proposal is approved. See more: www.albertawilderness.ca/grassy-mount... #abcoal #grassy

Grassy Mountain and the Threat of Coal - Adventure for Wilderness, June 27, 2026 - Alberta Wilderness Association

Text by Lindsey Wallis Photos by Lindsey Wallis and Nicole Olivier We met Nicole from...

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Harris: mountain goats are not all right, especially native populations. We often don't know why, yet few resources are devoted to their conservation. They tolerate very little harvest, and I suspect they are very vulnerable to climate change. 🧪 wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Our survey of states and provinces revealed that 13% of native mountain goat populations increased during the past 10 years, whereas 38% declined. For introduced populations, increases were roughly e...

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Wildlife does not stop at borders and neither can conservation. At the 8th @thegef.bsky.social Assembly in Samarkand last month, CMS and partners highlighted how connected landscapes can support wildlife, people and climate resilience across Central Asia. Learn more: cami.cms.int/news/cms-hig...

Die Eichenweide Mercheasa, größte Eichenweide Europas. Ein unschätzbar wertvoller Schatz an Landschaftsgeschichte und Biodiversität. Dieses Jahr gab es hier viel mehr Regen als sonst und alles ist unglaublich bunt.