News archive
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An evidence synthesis on behaviour change and biodiversity for CBD COP16
Molly Brown shares her highlights of coordinating a project which brought together academics, NGO practitioners and government officials.
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Don't forget to pick up after your wolverine!
A growing number of people across Europe are facing the challenge of living with large carnivores. Hanna Pettersson explores its socio-economic implications through a case study in Northern Sweden.
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What is the destination of protected area and other effective area-based conservation measures expansion? How do we get there?
Hong Jiang discusses the future view of protected area and other effective area-based conservation measures expansion, and the difficulty of achieving these goals.
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Climate change set to take over as key driver of biodiversity loss by 2050, experts warn
By mid-century climate change is set to become the primary cause of biodiversity loss, but there is still time to reduce the impact on global ecosystems and species, scientists say.
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Boreal forest and tundra regions worst hit over next 500 years of climate change, study shows
The boreal forest, covering much of Canada and Alaska, and the treeless shrublands to the north of the forest region, may be among the worst impacted by climate change over the next 500 years, according to a new study.
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Reaching a new audience: behavioural ecologists of the future?
As researchers, we spend a lot of time communicating our work. Why is it important? What did we do? What have we learnt? Where could we take this next?
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Researchers call for support for traditional Nigerian bakeries to shift to clean energy to reduce deforestation
Bakeries in Nigeria which use traditional open ovens fuelled by hardwood cut from local forests are contributing to rapid deforestation and climate change, according to a study from academics working in Nigeria and from the University of York and UCL.
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Vegemite Anthropocene: Conferencing transformations and law in Australia - Christopher Lyon
In July, LCAB’s Katie Noble and I climbed into some metal and carbon fibre tubes and travelled through the sky and the future to The Land Down Under. Apparently, the hippie trail is rewilded, and gassy, fried-out Kombis are harder to come by, so aeroplanes it was.
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Being unromantic about nature
Professor Chris Thomas has reproduced the following article from the conference booklet of a New Networks for Nature meeting. He reflects on being both a scientist and a naturalist and on how we need to change our food production system to sustain our increasing human population.
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Transformation and justice: Insights from the 2022 Conference on Earth Systems Governance
PhD student Megan Tarrant recently returned from the 2022 Earth Systems Governance Conference in Toronto. In this article she considers the topic of “transformation” and how it links to justice, which featured heavily in the conference proceedings.
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Economic Geography of the Global Cultured Meat Industry
The in vitro production of real meat from animal cells, known as ‘cultured meat’ (CM), makes it possible to make meat without slaughtering animals. Katie Noble explores this emerging industry.
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Many UK protected areas are failing to deliver benefits for nature, according to new report
Many of the UK’s protected areas are not delivering for nature and are in poor ecological condition, a new report has found.
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Conserving the future in a Post-2020 world
PhD Student Megan Tarrant looks at what the upcoming Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework means for human rights in conservation.
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Technology Transfer and Local knowledge in Food Production
Theo Tomking considers issues concerning the role of local knowledge and the opportunities new technologies present for agriculture in discussions of how we can produce food for a ‘better’ Anthropocene.
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New meat, new world?
PhD student Katie Noble considers the environmentally sustainable alternatives to Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations.