Why did the elephants cross the road? To meet other elephants, of course. My South African colleague, Rudi van Aarde and I talk about our work in savannah Africa to find ways of connecting elephant populations. Thanks Carole Murphy for inviting us heartstock.podbean.com/e/rudi-van-aar…

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ICYMI: Helicopter surveys this year turned up no nests for what was once the largest population of Cape Sable seaside sparrows, an isolated group west of Shark River slough that wildlife ecologist STUART PIMM called an 'insurance claim' and the birds' best chance for survival.

wlrn.org/news/2021-09-1… The Everglades is being managed so badly that species that live only there are going extinct.

Please join Terry Spahr and me in New York for the US Premier of this movie.

I was honoured to in a series of lectures organised by Aleksandra Jaeschke at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture "A collective expedition into the imaginary futures of the spaces of botany. Link to the wide-ranging lectures. plant-potential.world/?fbclid=IwAR3H…

I am one of 100 scientists who have issued an open letter urging U.S. President Joe Biden and members of Congress to remove provisions promoting logging, forest biomass and fossil fuels from the infrastructure and reconciliation bills. news.mongabay.com/2021/11/scient…

There's a lot we can do in the USA towards slowing global heating gasses going into the atmosphere. Our tax dollars support massive deforestation which harms poor communities, the environment, and biodiversity. An editorial my colleagues and I wrote thehill.com/opinion/energy…

Veronika Perková is a Czech environmental journalist with bylines in BBC, Mongabay and Earth Island Journal, who hosts a monthly, solutions-focused podcast called Nature Solutionaries. They are stories that will gladden your heart. veronikaperkova.com/podcast/

just published a major effort to use remote sensing and citizen science to map out the distribution of endangered species in The Americas. An international effort including colleagues in the USA and around the world, IUCN, BirdLife, eBird, and ABC. nicholas.duke.edu/news/satellite…

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Thrilled to be able to help REGUA — a most successful conservation group in the very threatened coastal forests of Brazil. Our funding will add more land to their already outstanding restoration efforts. pr.com/press-release/…

mailchi.mp/savingnature/p… Saving Nature, we just lost two Science Board members — and two close friends. One of the last things Ed did was to vote on our restoration project in China. We will miss their advice keenly, but are so grateful for the support they gave us from the start.

science.org/doi/full/10.11… It was an honour to write this piece about my long-time friend, mentor, and Saving Nature Board member, Ed Wilson

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… The lives lost and economic costs of viral zoonotic pandemics have steadily increased over the past century. Prominent policymakers have promoted plans that argue we should take actions only after humans get sick. We sharply disagree.

I call upon my scientific colleagues to cut off all collaborations with Russian colleagues until their troops have left Ukraine.

At Saving Nature, we don’t always get ex-Presidents to enthuse about where we work, but we’ll take this endorsement any time! The Leuser Ecosystem is featured in the new Netflix series narrated by Barack Obama, entitled Our Great National Parks. netflix.com/watch/81193602…...

We can have our bread and biodiversity too, more or less. This open-access reprint is a News and Views, for Nature Food, which appeared today. It talks about a paper by Chung and Liu in the same issue. nature.com/articles/s4301…

Do you know where your plywood is from? If at Home Depot, it may well be from the Choco Rainforest, one of the most endangered forests on Earth. Watch this expose by Brian Rodgers! youtu.be/giQQ3S_1HDk

📢Submit your paper to #Forests Special Issue "The Extinction Crisis: How Bad, What Can Be Done?", edited by Dominick DellaSala, @PatComerBoulder and Stuart Pimm. Please find more details at👉 mdpi.com/journal/forest… #forestry #extinction #redlist #ecosystems #biodiversityconservation