Since 2024, CDKN has worked with Nature and People as One (NaPO), K2A grantee, in northern Kenya.
This photo story, published in celebration of the International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists, with images provided by
@arashghoddousi.bsky.social, documents NaPO’s HCN initiative.
👉bit.ly/46kwhK4
#ECCB2026 deadline extended!
The deadline for parallel (regular) sessions is now March 1, 2026.
📍 July 6th-10th, Leiden, NL
👉 Submit here: eccb26leiden.eu/parallel-ses...
Share this opportunity with colleagues and collaborators who might be interested in participating!
#conservation #networking
One more day to apply!
#RestoreNature
#Biodiversity
#Wildlife
If you’re an early-career #conservation researcher or practitioner, planning to attend @eccb26leiden.bsky.social in Leiden later this year but struggle with funding, don’t miss out on this opportunity!
📢 ECCB 2026 deadline extended!
The deadline for parallel (regular) sessions is now March 1, 2026.
📍 July 6th-10th, Leiden, NL
👉 Submit here: eccb26leiden.eu/parallel-ses...
Share this opportunity with colleagues and collaborators who might be interested in participating!
Questions? Message us!
With the increase of recreation on public lands, there is an increasing need for data on how recreation affects wildlife. We ask whether wildlife responses to recreation depended on previous exposure to recreation
Paper, led by @markdittmer.bsky.social here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Since 2024, CDKN has worked with Nature and People as One (NaPO), a K2A grantee, in northern Kenya.
In celebration of the International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists, a new photo story, with images provided by @arashghoddousi.bsky.social, documents NaPO’s HCN initiative.
👉bit.ly/46kwhK4
Restoring nature and reversing biodiversity loss are urgent societal challenges. Utrecht University invites applications for an Assistant Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Nature Restoration. In this role, you contribute to help solve these challenges through research and education by linking fundamental wildlife ecology to biodiversity recovery and nature restoration. As an Assistant Professor, you will join a young, enthusiastic team that is eager to make an impact. You will help strengthen the team’s mission to connect fundamental wildlife ecology with the challenges of nature restoration in human-dominated multifunctional forest landscapes, especially in north-western Europe. Your research will focus on restoration-relevant themes, such as wildlife responses to anthropogenic change, the effectiveness of conservation interventions, and the contribution of wildlife to biodiversity recovery and nature restoration. Close collaboration with colleagues within and beyond Utrecht University is an important part of this role, as well as building sustainable partnerships with conservation practitioners and policymakers. You will combine fieldwork, experiments and biomonitoring (e.g. using sensor technologies) with laboratory, statistical and theoretical approaches. There is ample opportunity to initiate research projects and to acquire funding. In education, you will teach in the Biology programs, develop and coordinate a new course, and supervise research projects of BSc, MSc and PhD students.
Are you a PhD-level #wildlife ecologist committed to research and education for #biodiversity and nature restoration?
Our group at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social has a #vacancy for an assistant professor!
Deadline for applications is February 19.
Please spread the word.
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
Look at this great picture of this beautiful snow leopard taken by the UNEP Vanishing Treasures project (Tajikistan)!
Check out @arashghoddousi.bsky.social and colleagues' paper in @ambio-journal.bsky.social for more information link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#snowleopard #tajikistan #biogeo
A great start to the new year: registration for the European Congress of Conservation Biology (ECCB 2026) is now officially open! Participants can take advantage of a special Early Bird discount, available until 31 March 2026. More on: eccb26leiden.eu/registration/
Argali - Photo: https://argalinetwork.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/argali_askar-davletbakov_.jpg
Nice outcome of the Vanishing Treasures project with @unep.org and a large team of regional collaborators (🙏).
Snow leopard - Photo Wikimedia Commons / Ismail Shariff
Once again: context specificity matters! Even under the same climate change scenario in the same ecoregion, some landscapes will require conflict mitigation measures, while others will offer restoration opportunities.
Regionally diverging results under climate change:
- more overlaps between snow leopards and pastoralism in the future Tajikistan (below)
- less overlaps and increasing spatial separation of wildlife and pastoralists in Kyrgyzstan
We used species distribution models to analyze the current and future distributions of (a) snow leopards, (b) their prey, and (c) pastoralist - and how they overlap - for two large landscapes in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Spatial overlaps signal interactions and the potential for conflict.
Snow leopard - Photo Wikimedia Commons / Irbis1983
Climate change impacts on the potential for coexistence between snow leopards and people in Central Asia's mountains - new paper out, led by @arashghoddousi.bsky.social in @ambio-journal.bsky.social @biogeoberlin.bsky.social
Screenshot image of the new website's homepage with a picture of a mountain lake in the background and a text "Society for Conservation Biology Europe Region: A European Community of Conservation Professionals".
Our society has a brand-new website! 🎉
Explore our latest activities, news, governance, and ways to get involved. A clearer window into who we are and the work we do for conservation across Europe.
Check it out: scbeurope.org
📣Job vacancy!📣
Research Fellow in Global Conservation at Leeds, working with Dave Williams (and me, a bit) to assess the impact of conservation initiatives on biodiversity, carbon, and people: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
#ConservationScience 🌍
Do Striped Hyenas Have a Sweet Tooth? First Evidence of Honey Consumption by a Hyaenid Ecol&Evol
The deadline for the call for symposia, roundtables, panel discussions, workshops, and training courses has been extended until November 15th!
Call for abstracts will open Dec 1st.
Visit: eccb26Leiden.eu to learn more.
@eccb26leiden.bsky.social @scbeurope.bsky.social
#conservation #networking
The deadline for the call for symposia, roundtables, panel discussions, workshops, and training courses has been extended by 2 weeks! Apply before November 15th. The call for abstracts (parallel sessions) will open on December 1st, and closes January 31st, 2026. Visit: eccb26Leiden.eu.
In case you missed Bella's workshop at #ICCB2025: join SCB & Current Conservation for Noticing Nature: A Nature Journaling Workshop with Bella Charlton!
#conservation #biodiversity #scienceart
Please repost!
I am looking for a passionate and hard-working PhD student to work in southern Africa on experimental defaunation and rewilding of megafauna. See the link below for more information:
@camzoology.bsky.social @conservation.cam.ac.uk
We developed a framework, rooted in social-ecological systems theory, to identify key pathways of how shocks impact large carnivores - and exemplify this framework with three case studies (jaguars, snow leopards, Asiatic cheetah)
@biogeoberlin.bsky.social @arashghoddousi.bsky.social
🐆 New research - Socio-economic shocks don't just impact human societies, but can also affect large carnivores ➡️ buff.ly/9NLJij4
@biogeoberlin.bsky.social @ranjmurali.bsky.social @tkuemmerle.bsky.social @alfredoromero.bsky.social @arashghoddousi.bsky.social
🔊Don't miss the upcoming SCB Europe Fall Webinar Series 2025!🍂
🌐Register here: bit.ly/4nYatdM
There is still time before the call for symposia etc. closes!
Submit your proposal before October 31st, 2025.
The call for abstracts (parallel sessions) will open on December 1st, 2025 and close on January 31st, 2026. Join the conversation!
Visit: eccb26Leiden.eu
Soon we'll share some exciting news about the program we’re developing! For now, you can still submit your ideas for contributions to the 8th European Congress of Conservation Biology in Leiden, one of Europe’s ten BiodiverCities!
Call is open until 31/10 — don’t miss out!
Visit eccb26Leiden.eu
Join the SCB Europe Region for their fall webinar series during October & November 2025 as an appetizer for #ECCB2026 in Leiden, NL!
Learn more: conbio.org/groups/secti...
#conservation #webinar #biodiversity
Join the SCB Europe Fall Webinar 2025!
Thought-provoking sessions coming up this October & November:
20/22/29 Oct: DEIJ in conservation
23 Oct: Rethinking conservation narratives
7 Nov: Rights for organisms!
12 Nov: Habitat restoration & ecopsychology
Register here: bit.ly/4nYatdM
🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26
Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8
#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
