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#NewPaper Conservation is changing and for the better. 🌿 In this new paper published in the journal Conservation and Society, Allison Bishop, Robin Roth and our co-authors (including Indigenous co-authors Steven Nitah and Dr. Deborah McGregor) present a critical assessment of the conservation sector and an analysis of how alternative decolonial partnerships with Indigenous Peoples are helping to advance conservation solutions that are both effective and equitable. We examine the efforts of the Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership (CRP) – an Indigenous-led, large-scale, multi-sectoral decolonial conservation partnership in Canada created to help elevate Indigenous-led conservation and support the transformation of the conservation sector. The CRP was founded by the Indigenous Leadership Initiative and IISAAK OLAM Foundation in partnerships with academics at University of Guelph. The paper is #OpenAccess and will be available shortly on Research Gate

Check out our latest Issue 22 in Volume 16 (November-2 2024)! #openaccess #SustainabilityMDPI #publishing #mdpi

🚨 The U.S. National Science Foundation, together with the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, is investing $16M in 10 new projects under the Partnership to Advance Conservation Science and Practice. These projects will apply basic science to conservation efforts, addressing urgent needs across various species and ecosystems. The outcomes will have broad implications for biodiversity, policy, and economic impact. "The unique partnerships this program creates forge a roadmap to broader conservation action by uniting the skills, expertise and tools needed to address the most urgent threats to our natural world," said Susan Marqusee, NSF assistant director for biological sciences. "These projects also will engage the public, policymakers, law enforcement and others in conservation through education, outreach and other broader impacts." https://bit.ly/3WRAoI4 #conservation #biodiversity

🦑 Just published! The need to address knowledge hierarchies in ocean biodiversity governance and research. ⚖️ Quantified Western scientific knowledge is often treated as the most “rational” and “objective” form of knowledge, which contributes to marginalised non-Western, traditional, locally-situated, or Indigenous knowledge systems. 💡One Ocean Hub early-career researchers have shed a light on this imbalance at the science-policy interface and on how it has led to the exclusion of certain communities from global governance processes, perpetuating inequitable and exclusive ocean practices. 🗞️ Read more in our newsletter here >> https://lnkd.in/eHMAeCr9 📃 By Holly Niner, David Wilson, Mia Strand, Kelly Hoareau, Jennifer Whittingham, Dylan McGarry, Bolanle Erinosho , Sulley Ibrahim, Sirkka Tshiningayamwe, Senia Febrica, Alana Malinde S.N. Lancaster and Milica Prokic.   University of Plymouth, University of Strathclyde, Nelson Mandela University, University of Cape Town, Rhodes University, University of Cape Coast, University of Namibia, The University of the West Indies, UN Ocean Decade #knowledgehierarchies #newsletter #oceanbiodiversity #governance #marginalisation #extraction #exclusion #indigenousknowledge #colonialism #oceangovernance #transdisciplinaryresearch #transformative #gendergaps #oceanliteracies #diverseknowledge #intergenerationalknowledge #marinebiodiversity #marinescienceevolution #artsbased #methodologies #oceanliteracies

New study calls for longevity conservation to protect Earth's large, wise elders. Despite their ecological and conservation importance, many of Earth’s oldest, largest and most experienced individuals have been eliminated from ecosystems. A new Science article, co-authored by Charles Sturt University's Paul Humphries and Dale Nimmo, notes the global environmental implications of losing old, wise and large animals. "Old animals play a vital role in the maintenance of biodiversity and ecosystem services and therefore longevity conservation requires dedicated policy directives, political motivation and careful management." Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/gYaQQ8SE Science Magazine Gulbali Institute Charles Darwin University University of Exeter Macquarie University University of Stirling Texas A&M University #CharlesSturtResearch Charles Sturt University - TEQSA Provider Identification: PRV12018 (Australian University). CRICOS Provider: 00005F.

good tonsee this research on human-wildlife conflict mitigation.

🌳 In order to tackle increasing biodiversity loss across the UK, the Government aims to increase native broadleaf woodland from 14.5% to 17% land-cover by 2030. 📈 However, this huge increase on the ground in such a short space of time will require change in the current reforestation strategy. 🏞 In our newest article, Dr Matthew Dennis urges that the opportunistic acquisition of land for reforestation needs to be balanced and that reforestation strategy should be led by the landscape context. 📰 Read it here: https://lnkd.in/ebc5-iyu School of Environment, Education and Development at The University of Manchester

It’s clear from the latest biodiversity COP that we’re losing wildlife and willd landscapes. Part of how we got here was through the ‘commodification of everything’. Attempting to reopen a trade in rhino horn is part of this trajectory, and highly unlikely to produce the desired conservation results:

The Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science's Conservation Catch Up last week was a great opportunity to learn about the struggles that industry, NGOs, and government face in their conservation work. It was interesting to hear there are a LOT of data and spatial challenges, and a dearth of information about what actually works in conservation. And for those of us in conservation social science, there are clearly opportunities to assist with this work, especially interdisciplinary research with landholders, evidence synthesis, and spatially-integrated social research for environmental planning and decisions. Mosaic Insights is really interested in developing more collaborations that bring people and nature together to improve conservation outcomes.   #conservation #socialscience #data #spatial 

💡 The CEMS Thought Leadership highlights research-based content produced by the CEMS Academic Partners to fuel conversations around pressing topics in the world today! In this video, John Tobin-de la Puente of CEMS partner school Cornell University (SC Johnson College of Business) talks about the immense gap in biodiversity financing and the need to fill it. His research focuses on the use of financial tools to achieve socially beneficial outcomes in the areas of sustainable development and biodiversity conservation. 💡The video guides the viewer through his research philosophy and focuses on how global stakeholders can and must get involved to ensure that future growth within our economies is possible. Combining theoretical value with a practical action plan, Tobin-de la Puente insists that “𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑡ℎ 𝑤𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑠: 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑡” 📌Watch the video to hear John Tobin-de la Puente talk about his research impact https://lnkd.in/e8rdDDaU 📌Find more insight in his collaborative 2023 paper with SC Johnson College dean Andrew Karolyi "Biodiversity Finance: A call for research into Financing Nature" https://lnkd.in/eEdXRpP7 #CEMSGlobalAlliance #CEMSThoughtLeadership  #sustainability #sustainablebusinessmodels #sustainablebusiness #sdg #sustainablefinance #biodiversityfinancing