The race to save the planet is being impeded by a global economy that is contingent on the exploitation of people and nature, according to the UN’s outgoing leading environment and human rights expert.

By Nina Lakhani

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Powerful piece by outgoing UN Special Rapporteur David Boyd “I can’t get people to bat an eyelash. It’s like there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand just how grave this situation is.”theguardian.com/world/article/…

Tune in on Thursday at 6 PM PST for the Seattle Aquarium's Lightning Talks series on 'Experience the Coral Triangle', where I will be talking about the Kebersamaan Untuk Lautan / Togetherness for the Ocean project 💙🦈
Thanks for inviting me Jim Wharton, PhD (he/him) 🤩
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Excited to finally share this short film on our Kebersamaan Untuk Lautan 'Togetherness for the Ocean' project in Aceh 💙🦈
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Possible thanks to Save Our Seas Biodiversity Challenge Funds Oxford Biology ICCS Cefas PKSPL IPB MCEM Oxford
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#sharks #ocean ConservationOptimism
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SOSF project leader, Dr Hollie Booth, is investigating how marine tourism can contribute to conservation in Indonesia, whilst prioritising the well-being of local fishermen.

We’ve received some brilliant proposals to be part of the #ConservationOptimism Summit 2024.

We still have some room in the programme, and there’s a week to go, so keep them coming!

- Go to buff.ly/44mAMBD
- Click the ‘Get Involved’ link &
- Tell us about your ideas

Looking forward to welcoming students & colleagues from IPB PKSPL IPB to Oxford Biology University of Oxford in June, as part of a Biodiversity Challenge Funds-funded exchange visits 🇮🇩🇬🇧🦈

As part of the visit we will be sharing about our joint research at a Biodiversity Network At The University of Oxford seminar on June 20th 👇🏽

New paper in Nature Communications demonstrates that land conversion to agriculture induces taxonomic homogenization of soil microbial communities globally.

Based on 2400 samples across six continents.

nature.com/articles/s4146…

Work by Ziheng Peng, Gehong Wei, Shuo Jiao &…

📢 📄 Abstracts are now open for SSWG's Conservation Social Science Conference. Submit yours by filling out the form. 🍃
buff.ly/4a07zxx
⏰ Deadline: May 30, 2024. #ConSocSci #SSWG

Come and join us in the Comoros! My brilliant colleagues Dahari are recruiting a project manager to help set-up & run our RCT of conservation agreements at the the forest frontier in beautiful Anjouan. #teamcounterfactual
#TuesdaysWithTeamCounterfactual eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

1/2 Well this article made my day! First attempt to model whether humanity has any chance of getting to a safe and just operating space - where humanity's needs are met without breaching any planetary boundaries. Drumroll... the answer is... yes. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Hiya. Long shot, I’m hoping some humans will see this post, sign & share my new petition to get private vested interests & dirty money out of politics for good -

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6600…

eg fossil fuel barons, genocidal maniacs, dodgy PPE contractors, Russian oligarchs,…

This is a great start from The Labour Party but even better would be recognising ALL our impacts on nature in order to fulfil our obligations under the CBD COP15 Global Biodiversity Framework. The #CANBill of Zero Hour is a simple way to do this... theguardian.com/environment/20…

Small research consultancy supporting the newly formed IUCN SSC CEC Behaviour Change Taskforce, focused on qualitative data analysis. Please do share with your networks!

WIldCRU is inviting applications from exceptional early career #conservationists to join our popular Postgraduate Diploma in International #Wildlife Conservation Practice.
For more info see: tinyurl.com/44pmfus8
Application deadline: 14.06.2024

Join us for this week's episode of the WoS podcast with Dr Hollie Booth , exploring the need for both human livelihoods and shark conservation. How might we seek socially just solutions that safeguard both sharks and coastal livelihoods? More below.

saveourseas.com/worldofsharks/…

📢'The World Is Your Oyster' is for those who are born in global north countries--don't experience visa bureaucracy & emotional burden that non-white global south scholars do. Citizenship is a privilege that we need to recognize in the academe. 1/n

nature.com/articles/d4158…

👋 Excited to kick off the first MCEM member thread! 🎓 I'm Haze Chung, a first-year DPhil diving deep into #pinniped research in Peru with #drones & population dynamic models 🦭 Stay tuned for tweets about my fieldwork in 🇵🇪 last month! Oxford Biology