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There's a lot of #badnews about #biodiversity and #conservation at the moment, so how about some #conservationoptimism? 🧵 based on our new paper pnas.org/doi/full/10.10… and some awesome recent work by others... 1/
As you probably know, the world has ambitious targets to protect 17% of the world's land for #biodiversity #conservation, and there are calls to increase this to anywhere between 26-60% in the next round of @UNBiodiversity talks (this year) 2/
In theory, this is great for biodiversity (more on the human impacts later). Problem is that the total area of land that you protect may not be important: a lot of #protectedareas are small or isolated, and this means that the populations are also small and isolated 3/
In a remote #village of Kungyam in #Ladakh, people revived livestock herding recently. #EncounterUncia 
@Dorjayncf and I got a call from the herders of the village to predator-proof their newly built corral. #EncounterUncia
On a chilly November morning, when we reached the village, we were shocked! A #snowleopard had entered the corral that very night. #EncounterUncia
1/17 #Rewilding Paper 4 is by Reed Noss published in 2003, a couple of years after Paper 3. It is titled ‘A checklist for wildlands network designs.’ And can be found in Conservation Biology.
2/17 Ever wondered how to design a science-based wildlands network / #rewilding project? Then check out this thread and this paper: researchgate.net/publication/22…
3/17 #rewilding is defined as ‘restoration of wilderness qualities and intact food webs' and the paper reports a checklist designed to assist the Wildlands Project develop regional conservation assessments and wildlands network designs that achieve science-based standards.
Visiting #LaReunion allowed for a very special adventure with my 8-month old son. We wanted to see one of the rarest birds in the world before it disappeared: the Reunion Cuckoo-shrike.
This is a thread about #birds, #birding, fatherhood, #biodiversity and #extinction ... 1/13
This is a thread about #birds, #birding, fatherhood, #biodiversity and #extinction ... 1/13
@Team_eBird @BirdLife_News @BirdWatchingMag @Natures_Voice @WildlifeMag @Britnatureguide @RareBirdAlertUK @extinctsymbol @BirdNoteRadio 2. What does #extinction mean? What does it feel like? How does our species internalise, let alone rationalise, the loss of another?
Perhaps, like the Universe itself, the #anthropocene sixth mass extinction is too big, too abstract, just too *much*, for us to absorb.
Perhaps, like the Universe itself, the #anthropocene sixth mass extinction is too big, too abstract, just too *much*, for us to absorb.
@Team_eBird @BirdLife_News @BirdWatchingMag @Natures_Voice @WildlifeMag @Britnatureguide @RareBirdAlertUK @extinctsymbol @BirdNoteRadio 3. So let's focus on just one species: a bird few have heard of, and fewer would likely think or care about. A type of cuckoo-shrike found only on #Reunion, the next-door island to my home in #Madagascar.
A bird from an island where avian extinctions have already occurred.
A bird from an island where avian extinctions have already occurred.
Have you seen this incredible story in the latest FrogLog edition? Read this and many other inspiring stories here: amphibians.org/froglog/froglo… #ConservationOptimism
amphibians.org/news/the-redis…
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The team led by Victor Vargas Garcia from Asociación Pro Fauna Silvestre - Ayacucho received support from the Amphibian Survival Alliance.
They have rediscovered the Allipacca water frog (Telmatobius intermedius) in the western Andes of Peru, a species previously known only from four specimens collected from its type locality in 1950.
A new study came out with some pretty interesting stuff: It turns out that restoring U.S. lands & coastal wetlands could reduce global warming much more than we previously thought! #conservationoptimism #conservation nytimes.com/2018/11/14/cli…
"Better management of forests, grasslands, and soils in the U.S. could offset as much 21% of the country's annual greenhouse gas emissions -- roughly the same as taking away every single car and truck in the country off the road." (NYT)
This study advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/11/e… is the first to include the climate benefits of coastal wetlands & grasslands in a comprehensive mix along w/ forests and agriculture. (Source) & more info here: enn.com/articles/56040…
