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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 18d

Last weekend @alfredoromero.bsky.social and Marie Pratzer were invited to talk at the #LongNightofClimate in Berlin. They had a lot of fun and enjoyed this inspiring, interesting and important event!
Film: "Bolivia Burning"
look at some more information here: www.langenachtdesklimas.de

#LNDK #BTS

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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · Sep 2

Happily sharing that @alfredoromero.bsky.social and Marie Pratzer will join the panel of a film screening as part of the Long Night of Climate!
13.09.2025, Kulturfabrik Moabit (Berlin)
Hope to see you there!!

trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyyg...

#LNDK2025, #Klimaschutz, #Nachhaltigkeit

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MariaIsabel Torres @mariaisabeltorres.bsky.social · Aug 25

5/ Lamentablemente empezó nuevamente la temporada de incendios en Bolivia. El gobierno ya la ha calificado como una “situación crítica”. El viceministro Juan Carlos Calvimontes señala que se activaron alertas roja y naranja en 66 municipios.
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Incendios forestales avanzan en Bolivia: gobierno activa alerta en 66 municipios

Incendios forestales avanzan en Bolivia: gobierno activa alerta en 66 municipios. Seguimos de cerca el caso.

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Alfredo Romero-Muñoz @alfredoromero.bsky.social · Jun 18

Exciting PhD position to work on large mammals and land use in Europe with the @biogeoberlin.bsky.social lab at @humboldtuni.bsky.social

Tobias Kuemmerle @tkuemmerle.bsky.social · Jun 7

Come join us at the Conservation Biogeography Lab @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social and carry out work on megafauna in Europe

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New PhD position on large mammals and land-use change in Europe | Conservation Biogeography Lab

We are excited to invite applications for a new PhD position on large mammals and land-use change in Europe. Join us at the Conservation and Biogeography Lab at Humboldt University Berlin!

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Tobias Kuemmerle @tkuemmerle.bsky.social · Jun 13

Aggressive attacks on science in Argentina by the Milei government (huge and apparently illegal funding cuts, discrediting rhetoric) causing a massive brain drain that will hurt the country for decades to come. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Scienticide’ in Argentina sparks huge protest by researchers

Hundreds of activists, some wearing gas masks, took to the streets to denounce the government for slashing science funding.

www.nature.com

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Tobias Kuemmerle @tkuemmerle.bsky.social · Jun 17

🐄🐂 Putting landless cattle on the map! 🐄🐂
New paper in Env. Research Letters on mapping cattle intensification from space - across South America's dry diagonal doi.org/10.1088/1748... @erc.europa.eu @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social @pedrofernandez91.bsky.social #SystemShift @biogeoberlin.bsky.social

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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · May 6

Had some luck in the #Chaco - where we caught two #eirabarbaras on our #wildcameras!!

@alfredoromero.bsky.social @tkuemmerle.bsky.social

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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · Jun 3

We traced how soy and beef production in Argentina and Paraguay impact mammal diversity—and who’s driving it. Spoiler: It’s not just exports. Read the paper: shorturl.at/bpPEH

@alfredoromero.bsky.social @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social @tkuemmerle.bsky.social @aguiarse86.bsky.social @sei.org

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Tobias Kuemmerle @tkuemmerle.bsky.social · May 31

Understanding the impact of agricultural exports on the Gran #Chaco #biodiversity: new paper out in Global Environmental Change, led by Isabel Carpenter 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.gl...

@biogeoberlin.bsky.social @sei.org
@alfredoromero.bsky.social @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social @aguiarse86.bsky.social

Soybean shipped out of Paraguay (Photo: XINDE MARINE NEWS).

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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · May 7

So happy about more than one hundred participants at our online #workshop on zoom today!!
Imogen Schwandner and
@alfredoromero.bsky.social
talked about using #AI to manage the data of #wildcameras

#biogeography #chaco

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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · Mar 17

Some impressions of @alfredoromero.bsky.social 's and Imogen Schwandner's field trip to the Chaco.

#chaco #wildlife #survey #largecat #bolivia #conservation #biogeography #huberlin

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WWF EU @wwf.eu · May 5

This week, the EU Parliament is voting to downgrade the protection status of wolves, despite a clear lack of scientific evidence.

To do so, it has to open up the Habitats Directive, a 30-year-old law that protects our nature.

✊ We can't let this happen. Keep your #HandsOffNature.

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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · Feb 22

Listening to @alfredoromero.bsky.social and Imogen Schwandner's recap of their amazing survey adventure in the Chaco, Bolivia. A perfect way to spend our Friday - have a nice weekend!!
#biogeography #chaco #bioconservation #survey #recap #research #humboldtuniversity

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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · Feb 26

New paper led by @alfredoromero.bsky.social!
Take a look here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@humboldtuni.bsky.social @tkuemmerle.bsky.social

#mapping #biogeography #chaco #biodiversity #deforestation #wildlife

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Ana Benítez @anabenlop.bsky.social · Feb 12

New paper out! Another great collab with @alfredoromero.bsky.social and @tkuemmerle.bsky.social from the Conservation Biogeography lab @humboldtuni.bsky.social, together with great scientists from the Chaco region in S America. So happy to be part of this!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Hunting and Habitat Destruction Drive Widespread Functional Declines of Top Predators in a Global Deforestation Hotspot

Aim We investigated the effects of habitat destruction and hunting on the functional decline of top predators, specifically jaguar and puma, in the Gran Chaco. Location The 1.1 million km2 South A...

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Tobias Kuemmerle @tkuemmerle.bsky.social · Feb 12

Mapping the functional decline of top predators in the Gran #Chaco – a global deforestation hotspot. New paper led by @alfredoromero.bsky.social just out in Diversity & Distributions 👉https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.70003
@humboldtuni.bsky.social / @biogeoberlin.bsky.social

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Guy Pe'er @guypeer.bsky.social · Dec 5

Dear President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu & EVP @teresaribera.bsky.social,
Scientists are deeply concerned about the gradual rollback of the Green Deal.
On behalf of >2000 scientists, please see our Open Letter calling to restore its ambition:
zenodo.org/records/1427...
Please could you meet us?

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Arash Ghoddousi @arashghoddousi.bsky.social · Dec 5

Published in Conservation Biology!

Effectiveness of protected areas in the #Caucasus Mountains in preventing #rangeland #degradation

Using greenness indicators in 52 PAs from 1988-2019 we showed that they’re ineffective in preventing degradation

OA:
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Tobias Kuemmerle @tkuemmerle.bsky.social · Nov 23

Doing field work in the Chiquitano Forest in Bolivia (below some pics) for our #ERC project #SystemShift (hu.berlin/SystemShift). We are running a massive camtrap & audio-recording survey - about 20+ landscapes (in Chaco and Chiquitania) with 35 cams + 5 audio recorders each.

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Martin Jung @martinjung.eu · Nov 11

Making starter packs seems to be the hot thing and I noticed that we don't have one for conservation scientists (🧪), so here we go go.bsky.app/3CZDnb2
So if you are an active researcher and would like to be added, reply here. Please no journalists or NGOs, there are other starting lists for that ;)

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M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com · Jan 8

“There are about 700,000 people in the world currently facing catastrophic hunger, he added; 577,000 of them are in Gaza.”

The numbers that reveal the extent of the destruction in Gaza

From death tolls to destroyed buildings and lost hospital beds, these are the figures that cut through the fog of war

www.theguardian.com

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · Dec 26

We published 5,000 stories in English, Spanish, Indonesian, Portuguese, Hindi, & French this year,

7.01 million unique visitors/month read them

Most popular topics @ the Global English news site?

8/10 were about biodiversity: fish, cats, and herps each featured in 2 of the top features:

Our most read stories of 2023

In 2023, Mongabay published about 5,000 stories and more than 1,600 videos across English, Spanish, Indonesian, Portuguese, Hindi, and French. The posts on our websites attracted an average of 7.01 mi...

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Tobias Kuemmerle @tkuemmerle.bsky.social · Dec 11

Congratulations to Catalina Munteanu & Mihai Nitra for receiving the Marin Dracea Prize of the Romanian Academy of Sciences for our study on High Conservation Value Forests in #Romania! #OldGrowth
👉 doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

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Mongabay Latam @mongabaylatam.bsky.social · Dec 5

🔎 En Bolivia hay un fuerte conflicto entre las cooperativas auríferas y el gobierno luego de que se suspendiera la entrega de autorizaciones para la explotación de oro en áreas protegidas. Mineros cooperativistas piden que se anule esta decisión. ⬇️ es.mongabay.com/2023/12/coop...

Cooperativas auríferas y gobierno entran en conflicto por acceso de minería a las áreas protegida...

Los permisos para explotación minera en las áreas naturales protegidas de Bolivia han entrado en una nueva etapa. Mediante una resolución emitida en julio de 2023, la Autoridad Jurisdiccional Admin...

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Mongabay Latam @mongabaylatam.bsky.social · Nov 29

#DíaInternacionalDelJaguar 🐅
El jaguar es una especie emblemática de América que está seriamente amenazada. ¿Qué se está haciendo en Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia para protegerlo?

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Día Internacional del Jaguar: tres historias de conservación del félido más grande de América

Dibujos que tienen como protagonistas a jaguares, y que fueron realizados por niños ecuatorianos, ilustran cuatro cuentos creados en las comunidades de la Reserva de Producción de Fauna Cuyabeno. Qu...

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