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🔎Curious about #wildlifemonitoring? 🌿Join our next webinar "Cameras or Camus?" on Nov 14th at 09AM Bishkek time! Learn how snow track surveys vs. camera traps help estimate #wildlife densities in the Russian Far East. Register here: bit.ly/CamerasOrCamus… #AmurTiger

A beautiful Persian #leopard seen in the #Alborz Mts of Parvar Protected Area, #Iran Considered an endangered subspecies with only ca. 450-626 individuals living in the rugged landscapes of southwestern Asia: iucnredlist.org/species/15961/… Taken by H. Tizrooyan

The consequences of ill-practiced species introductions of #Soviet-era still visible in the #Caucasus bbc.com/future/article…

🌟 Exciting Opportunity for Early-Career Conservationists! 🌟 The Snow Leopard Network (SLN) is launching its #SLNMentorshipProgram in early 2025, pairing early-career conservationists with experienced mentors for support, guidance, and skill-building. 🐾 #WildlifeConservation

📌New Publication Led by Arash Ghoddousi, our study on 52 protected areas (PAs) in the Caucasus shows challenges in preventing rangeland degradation from overgrazing. Multiple-use PAs were notably less effective than strictly protected ones. Conservation Biology conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

Fence #ecology explained ⁦dr Katarzyna Nowak⁩ bbc.com/future/article…

🚨 New paper 🚨 Protected areas in the Caucasus do not prevent rangeland degradation With Arash Ghoddousi , Marie Pratzer, Juliana Eggers, Benjamin Bleyhl, Katarzyna Ewa Lewińska @kelewinska.bsky.socia, Tobias Kuemmerle and more! doi.org/10.1111/cobi.1…

New postdoctoral job available at Oxford Biology and SoGE, University of Oxford - working on a very exciting project with the European Space Agency. Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

Our institute of Ecology and Evolution, Uni Bern, Switzerland, is opening a competition for a post of professor (tenure-track) for Conservation Biology. Distribute as widely as you can. ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jobs…

What a job! 5 year independent fellowship at Cambridge University in ecology and conservation. jobs.ac.uk/job/DKK149/cla…

Make a lasting impact on SCB, give back to the #conservation community, and help advance the mission and goals of our community when you nominate yourself or someone else to serve on the SCB Global Network Board! 🌍 Learn more: conbio.informz.net/informzdataser…

We’re holding an #interdisciplinary PhD course on ‘science of #conservation’ in South Africa this March. It involves a range of lectures, group-work activities and a mini-project applying social and ecological tools in N Drakensberg. Apply here: pe-rc.nl/TheScienceofCo…

There are still a few spots available on this course for those interested

Finally out our paper 'Continuing recovery of wolves in Europe' published yesterday in PLOS Sustainability & Transformation. Grateful to have been active part of this and worked with LCIE-IUCN members. I hope it gets red and shared widely! doi.org/10.1371/journa… ©Miha Krofel

Subspecies Spotlight 3/8 The Persian leopard (Panthera pardus tulliana), aka the Caucasian or Anatolian leopard, is the biggest of the #leopard subspecies. Fewer than 1000 individuals are estimated to remain in the wild. Read more: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur… 📸 Seyed Babak Musavi

Our Science of Conservation course in beautiful Berghouse&Cottages, South Africa concluded w/ participants from 12 countries. The participants took inter-/transdisciplinary approaches to look into 4 major conservation challenges of the North Drakensberg Nature Reserve.