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Ciência Cidadã e conservação de Polinizadores em Oeiras 🦋 No passado dia 19 de fevereiro, realizou-se o workshop "O papel da sociedade civil na Garantia de Conformidade Ambiental de polinizadores no Município de Oeiras", no Parque dos Poetas 🫱🏻🫲🏾 Esta iniciativa, organizada pelo projeto europeu More4Nature, com o apoio do Município de Oeiras, reuniu especialistas, investigadoras e projetos de Ciência Cidadã para debater a importância da participação ativa da comunidade na proteção dos polinizadores 🐞🌱 O Programa Ciência + Cidadã e o Município de Oeiras estiveram representados entre as participantes, reforçando o papel da ciência cidadã como ferramenta essencial para monitorizar e preservar os polinizadores 🐝 💡 A colaboração entre ciência, comunidade e decisores políticos é essencial para garantir um futuro mais sustentável e equilibrado! Município de Oeiras ITQB NOVA GIMM European Union #CiênciaCidadã #Biodiversidade #Polinizadores #Sustentabilidade #More4Nature #MunicípioDeOeiras

🔎💸 Are you a citizen science project looking for funding, mentoring and training? IMPETUS for citizen science! has an open call for its Accelerator Grants and EU Prize for Citizen Science projects. Give it a try! IMPETUS supports and recognizes #citizenscience initiatives by enabling access to innovative #funding. Their 3rd Open call is now open for: 🏃 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗘𝗧𝗨𝗦 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺:  - #Grants up to €20.000 for mentoring and #training support.  - Especially looking for new or ongoing projects focused on supporting circular communities and a fair and just society.  - 🗓️ Apply before March 13th. 🥇  𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲:  - €60.000 Grand Prize and two €20.000 special awards.  - Honorary mentions for other 27 projects.  - 🗓️ Apply before March 10th. All the information about the open call at: https://lnkd.in/evtk9ktQ Finn Danielsen Gitte Kragh Uta Wehn Joan Maso Pau Karin Dubsky, Sasha Woods, María Relea García, Gabriela Dutrénit Ida Theilade

Curious about how to empower communities to drive environmental action? more4nature is on a mission to galvanize environmental protection thanks to citizen-science 🔎 👩🏽🔬 The project - led by IHE Delft Institute for Water Education - unites 21 partner organizations spanning Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. We lead the communication work package and are responsible for branding, designing and developing the interactive more4nature Knowledge Platform: your go-to hub for methodologies and resources 🛠️ 📊 Follow the more4nature consortium on its four-year journey to integrate community engagement through innovative data tools and provide solutions that boost citizen empowerment and enhance environmental stewardship. Learn more about the platform in the slides below 👇🏽

🛟 🌊 Searching for ways to foster collaboration between citizens and authorities to tackle water pollution? Here's the workshop you need.

🛟 🌊 Searching for ways to foster collaboration between citizens and authorities to tackle water pollution? Here's the workshop you need. Our partners at Coastwatch ( Irish Coastal Environment Group - Coastwatch) organize this workshop on #pollution risk detection and the development of notification and rapid response systems. The focus is set on the prevention of chemical and oil pollution. We will talk about herbicides, #pesticides, EPA licensed discharge, port management plans with citizen data, seagrass as an indicator, etc. Join us on Tuesday 25 February in Dún Laoghaire (Co. Dublin). We have planned a day full of activities, starting at Dún Laoghaire harbor with a visit to the Native Oyster Project hosted by Local Authority Waters Programme. Afterwards we will gather at the Dun Laoghaire County Council for three sessions on: 🧩 Woes, puzzles and joys encountered by volunteers, with Karin Dubsky.  ⏰ Water Pollution Prevention and Halt challenges, with experts like Noel Mc Gloin (Inland Fisheries Ireland ), Justin Ivory (Local Authority Waters Programme), Tim Ryan (Dún Laoghaire Harbour), Paul Buggy (Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council). 🎯Collaborative #WaterQuality Protection Alert Response Systems: citizen and authorities. Don't miss out! Places are limited, so please register in the following link TODAY: https://lnkd.in/dQe5iG-P

Could ChatGPT help us to protect biodiversity? An international panel of experts has come up with 21 ideas where AI could revolutionize conservation 🤖🐛 In recent years, platforms such as #ChatGPT or #Midjourney have captured our imagination raising public interest in artificial intelligence. An international panel of 18 conservation scientists and 9 #AI and computer science specialists came together to explore how AI could make waves in biodiversity protection. The result is an article with 21 ideas sorted according to their potential to: 🧠 Expand the scope of human imagination or creativity.  📈 Generate advanced simulations and data representation.  📑 Help human experts to translate observations into new knowledge. If we specifically talk about #biodiversity conservation, AI has the potential to enhance our understanding of species distributions, to help pinpointing priority areas for conservation or even evaluating the effectiveness of policy actions or provide tools to track compliance with environmental legislation. As the experts note in the article, AI will be an invaluable tool in supporting conservation efforts, but it is not a cure-all. While the potential benefits are vast and the urgency of addressing biodiversity loss is critical, several risks associated with this technology must be carefully considered. These include AI colonialism, its high energy consumption, the erosion of essential #conservation skills, AI hallucinations, the replication of existing biases, and the potential for misuse by malicious actors. If not managed properly, these challenges could undermine the very efforts AI aims to support in preserving biodiversity. Do you already use AI in your biodiversity conservation work? What challenges are you facing? Finn Danielsen Gitte Kragh Nordeco Uta Wehn Joan Maso Pau Karin Dubsky, Sasha Woods, María Relea García, Gabriela Dutrénit

Today, the Kouy people in Cambodia do not give roses and chocolates for Valentine's Day. Instead, they wrap their trees with saffron robes to shield them from illegal deforestation. The Tree Ordination Ceremony in Prey Lang is a powerful reminder that #deforestation threatens not only forests but also socio-cultural roots. 🪵 🧣 Over the past 20 years, logging companies have wiped out more than 11% of Cambodia’s protected forest areas. Yet now, the very communities fighting to preserve these forests are frequently denied access to hold their sacred ceremonies within the protected areas.  The Tree Ordination Ceremony involves symbolically ordaining trees as monks, wrapping them in saffron robes, and chanting sacred blessings. Spiritually, it is a message from the group to the spiritual guardians of the forest but also offers a bold statement against deforestation. Some loggers have even been frightened away at the sight of the ordained trees.    🌲 Prey Lang is the largest remaining lowland evergreen forest—5,000 square kilometers of trees that serve as the pillars of a vital ecosystem, home to over 250,000 Indigenous people. The more4nature project is working with the Prey Lang Community Network, Prey Preah Roka Forest and Monk Community Forest in #Cambodia to engage more than 100 villages in forest protection. The so-called Forest patrols collect data on forest resources and illegal logging through the Prey Lang App. Since 2015, citizens have uploaded more than 30,000 records. The observations are published in forest monitoring reports that are shared with the authorities and the public to drive action. Do you know of other citizen initiatives calling for action against deforestation? #citizenaction

For et par uger siden, havde vi i Nationalpark Thy en gæv flok inviteret fra nær og fjern til workshop i more4nature projektet. Formålet var at synliggøre alt det, der allerede sker i nationalparken idag, der har med "citizen science" at gøre, men også at drøfte mulighederne for at videreudvikle borgerinddragelsen her i Danmarks ældste nationalpark. Der er spændende perspektiver oveni de gode resultater, der allerede er skabt. Tak til Finn Danielsen og Gitte Kragh, for at arrangere workshoppen. Og tak til deltagerne for deres store engagement en sen eftermiddag i nationalparkcentret i Vorupør: Jeppe Pilgaard, Knud Knudsen, Jens Kristian Kjærgaard, Anne Erland Eskildsen, Thomas Borup Svendsen, Louise Imer Nabe-Nielsen, Henrik Olsen, Anne-Grethe Damsgaard, Jan Durinck, Cathrine Sørensen, Lars Rask Mortensen og Mathilde Boesen.

🐝📢 Novos dados sobre as abelhas de Portugal! 📢🐝  Sabias que o Museu da Ciência da Universidade de Coimbra alberga a maior coleção histórica de abelhas de Portugal? No entanto, muitos desses registos nunca tinham sido estudados e publicados... até agora! 🧐🔍    Um novo estudo liderado pelo FLOWer Lab do Centre for Functional Ecology - Science for People & the Planet revelou e disponibilizou no GBIF um total de 13.374 registos de abelhas de Portugal, dos quais 11.053 nunca tinham sido publicados! Estes dados abrangem 464 espécies, incluindo 11 novas espécies para a fauna portuguesa. Além disso, a lista de abelhas de Portugal continental foi atualizada, resultando num total de 736 espécies. 🌍🐝  Este estudo é dedicado a todos os coletores e especialistas que ao longo dos séculos XIX e XX tornaram esta uma coleção de enorme relevância, em particular ao maior especialista e coletor de abelhas de Portugal no século XX, Manuel de Assunção Diniz. 🔬 Quem está por trás desta investigação? O estudo foi realizado pelos investigadores Hugo Gaspar, Simone Flaminio, Albano Soares, Cristina Rufino, João Loureiro, Sílvia Castro e Thomas J. Wood.  👩🔬 Hugo Gaspar, Sílvia Castro e João Loureiro fazem parte do FLOWer Lab e dos projetos PolinizAÇÃO e Arcade (TETTRIs). Albano Soares (TAGIS) e Cristina Rufino (Museu da Ciência da UC) são membros da polli.NET e do projeto ARCADE. Thomas J. Wood (Naturalis Biodiversity Center) e Simone Flaminio (UMONS) especialistas Europeus em abelhas, contribuíram para a validação taxonómica de algumas das espécies. 🔗  Consulta o artigo completo aqui:  https://lnkd.in/dd2FtNXr Este estudo reforça a importância das coleções científicas na conservação da biodiversidade e na compreensão da fauna dos polinizadores! ✨  🐝   . . . #Biodiversidade #AbelhasDePortugal #Ciência #MuseudaCiênciaUC #FLOWerLab #PolinizAÇÃO #Conservação #Polinizadores #flowerpower SPEN - Sociedade Portuguesa de Entomologia Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas (ICNF) FCTUC

🎉 Congratulations PolinizAÇÃO for having completed your set of 7 participatory workshops that are the breeding ground to co-develop an Action Plan for the Conservation and Sustainability of #Pollinators in Portugal! 🐝 The PolinizAÇÃO team has assembled and incredible group of researchers, civil society organizations, citizen scientists, educators, representatives of national, regional and local agencies and public institutions, policymakers, and the private sector to work together on the protection of pollinators and their habitats. We are honoured to have contributed to this process, which has included discussions on current knowledge and future research, management practices in urban, rural and classified natural areas, apiculture, public policies, and funding.  Aligned with this goal, the more4nature project embraces a participatory approach which, in the case study in #Portugal, will explore how this effort to co-produce an Action Plan for the Conservation and Sustainability of Pollinators can foster collaborative practices for raising awareness, monitoring and protecting pollinators in Portugal We look forward to contributing to the future Action Plan! This is one of 7 current more4nature's case studies in the #biodiversity domain - find out more about the others here: https://lnkd.in/drpW6fqZ    Are you also working on pollinators protection with #citizenscience? 🔍🌼🐝  Tell us about it! Uta Wehn Joan Maso Pau, Gitte Kragh, Karin Dubsky, Sasha Woods, María Relea García, Gabriela Dutrénit