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Oryx @oryxthejournal.bsky.social · 22d

🪂Species reintroductions have a radical history; in the UK, where official rewilding remains tightly regulated, a covert counterculture has emerged🐗

🦅Glentworth et al. explore guerilla rewilding: unlicensed releases reshaping landscapes and challenging norms🦫

📰 lnkd.in/dw7EVA5n
🖥️ lnkd.in/dxJK4Wy6

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Emmy @researchrestore.bsky.social · 22d

Also worth checking out the accompanying blog with amazing photos of the origins of 🦫#beaverbombing 🌍🧪

👉🔗
www.oryxthejournal.org/blog/bringin...

Bringing the hidden movement of guerilla rewilding into the light

www.oryxthejournal.org

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Emmy @researchrestore.bsky.social · 22d

Great to see our new guerilla #rewilding #paper out in Oryx
Available #openaccess here 👉🔗

doi.org/10.1017/S003...

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Can we learn from the UK’s guerrilla rewilding movement? | Oryx | Cambridge Core

Can we learn from the UK’s guerrilla rewilding movement?

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Rewilding History @rewildinghistory.com · 28d

Considering the value that history and other disciplines outside of the natural sciences offer for rewilding efforts.

Emmy @researchrestore.bsky.social · Jul 19

📢 Our new #rewilding #paper is now out in @peopleandnature.bsky.social

We show how #interdisciplinary critical #socialscience can help enhance social and environmental #justice in #conservation

Available FREE #openaccess here 👉 🔗
doi.org/10.1002/pan3... 🌎🧪

Five critical questions we should ask of rewilding projects—And that social science can help us answer

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Emmy @researchrestore.bsky.social · Aug 6

Thank you for the recommendations!

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Joe Sarling @joesarling.bsky.social · Aug 5

📣 Super important paper 📣

It explores what's needed to ensure placemaking, the built environment, & transport can play a role in health creation & overcoming inequalities. Systems thinking is vital: foster the right leadership, collaborate across disciplines, and empower.

(HT @sfrost.bsky.social)

IPR @uniofbathipr.bsky.social · Jul 31

A new paper by @geoffbates.bsky.social, Pablo Newberry, Rachael McClatchey, @jacknewman.bsky.social and @sarahayres.bsky.social explores how health is integrated in urban development, and how to bring about change to support healthier development.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1186/s129...

How can health be further integrated in urban development policymaking in the United Kingdom? A systems mapping approach - Health Research Policy and Systems

Background In the United Kingdom the government’s new health mission aims to reduce the burden on healthcare services by shifting from treating poor health to prevention. Delivering this requires acti...

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Emmy @researchrestore.bsky.social · Aug 5

Our new #rewilding #paper is Open Access and free to view 🌎 👇

People and Nature @peopleandnature.bsky.social · Aug 4

🌿 New Research: Five critical questions we should ask of rewilding projects—And that social science can help us answer ➡️ buff.ly/S3yQoqA

#SocialSciences can critically and constructively understand #rewilding decision-making to recentre issues of #social #justice

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · Jul 30

Louise Fitzgerald & I are hiring an 18 month postdoc and 18 month research assistant (no PhD required) for a project on the political ecology of land ownership in Ireland. 2 weeks to apply. DM for any questions. 🧵

Link to DCU website: www.dcu.ie/people/jobs

Jobs - Open Vacancies at DCU | DCU People

Want to advance your career and work at Dublin City University? Find all of our job vacancies here, from teaching positions to administrative positions.

www.dcu.ie

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Robert Francis @birdhistory.bsky.social · Jul 29

When she was just 26 Florence Merriam wrote the first guide to birding with binoculars in 1889. And she slipped in this incredible feminist gem:

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Emmy @researchrestore.bsky.social · Jul 25

Fantastic 🤩 👏

Slow Ways @slowwaysuk.bsky.social · Jul 25

We're celebrating 10,000 Slow Ways routes with this stunning and electric mapping of our network by @urbangood.bsky.social.

The full map shows 5,790 routes rated 3+.

A massive congratulations and thanks to all of our volunteers.

See the map in full here buildstories.slowways.org/celebrating-...

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · Jul 24

1/ 📄New paper! Alison Hutchinson @georgeiorda.bsky.social Teresa Lappe-Osthege & myself have developed a new harms-based #PoliticalEcology as a way of understanding the #WildlifeTrade published in @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social ⬇️
beastlybusiness.org/2025/07/23/n...

New paper on harms-based political ecology - Beastly Business

Our team members Alison Hutchinson, Rosaleen Duffy, George Iordachescu and Teresa Lappe-Osthege developed an idea of bringing together debates on harms from green criminology with political ecology co...

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Emmy @researchrestore.bsky.social · Jul 24

Plus a jargon-free Plain Language Summary explaining how using #socialscience in #rewilding benefits #nature and #people 🔗👉
relationalthinkingblog.com/2025/07/15/p...
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Emmy @researchrestore.bsky.social · Jul 19

📢 Our new #rewilding #paper is now out in @peopleandnature.bsky.social

We show how #interdisciplinary critical #socialscience can help enhance social and environmental #justice in #conservation

Available FREE #openaccess here 👉 🔗
doi.org/10.1002/pan3... 🌎🧪

Five critical questions we should ask of rewilding projects—And that social science can help us answer

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

doi.org

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Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · Jun 27

POLLEN 2026 is happening in Barcelona 🌅

The call for panels is open and closes on July 31st.

See here for more information: tinyurl.com/5b8c5w7j

Spread the word.

POLLEN 2026: Open for Panels - POLLEN

When will POLLEN 2026 be launched? IT ALREADY HAS - get ready to come to Barcelona and join us! Panel Submissions are Currently Open (until July 31st) The announcement is here. Or take a look at this ...

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Emmy @researchrestore.bsky.social · Jul 23

Perhaps a survey is needed by @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social to keep up the momentum following the Climate & Sustainability Assembly on this topic 🌳🚲🐦📒

York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · Jul 23

🦋🌱 Have your say: a nature positive campus!

Love the green spaces at @york.ac.uk? Want more wildflowers, birdsong, or spaces to connect with nature? 🌼🦜

Tell us what you'd like to see on campus to support biodiversity, sustainability + wellbeing.

📋 Survey closes 15 August:

Qualtrics Survey | University of York Outdoor Space Use

A survey to gather information about how people use the outdoor spaces on the University of York campuses.

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IPBES @ipbes.net · Jul 22

OUT NOW: The laid-out version of the FULL @ipbes.net #TransformativeChange Report 💥

Explore how fundamental change can halt biodiversity loss and secure just and sustainable futures for all. 🌏🧪

Access the full report in English⬇️
https://www.ipbes.net/transformative-change-assessment

An image of the cover of the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment Report. Overlay text reads: “Transformative Change Assessment Report. Laid-out report in English available now.”

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Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · Jul 22

Working on #EnvironmentalJustice topics in Central and Eastern Europe? Then you might want to send an abstract for the conference 'The Greyzone of the Green Transition' that I'm co-organizing with my colleagues from Sibiu next year in Romania (18-19 May 2026).
Participation is free of charge!

International Conference: The Greyzone of the Green Transition – ecoJust home

grants.ulbsibiu.ro

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Emmy @researchrestore.bsky.social · Jul 22

Thanks George!

George Holmes @georgeholmes.bsky.social · Jul 22

There are a lot of general review type papers on social science and rewilding out there, but this is one of the best ones as a primer on the most important questions to ask: ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...

ora.ox.ac.uk

Emmy @researchrestore.bsky.social · Jul 19

📢 Our new #rewilding #paper is now out in @peopleandnature.bsky.social

We show how #interdisciplinary critical #socialscience can help enhance social and environmental #justice in #conservation

Available FREE #openaccess here 👉 🔗
doi.org/10.1002/pan3... 🌎🧪

Five critical questions we should ask of rewilding projects—And that social science can help us answer

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

doi.org

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Slow Ways @slowwaysuk.bsky.social · Jun 21

Would more people get to enjoying active travel and time outdoors if they had better route information?

Do you use a wheelchair, scooter or pushchair and feel limited by a lack of good information on accessible paths?

We've got a plan. Please look and share!

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways ⭐🐌

Calling everybody who walks, runs or rides!

Now’s the time - back our project to develop the ultimate walking, running, wheeling, cycling & horse riding network for Britain and Ireland

www.crowdfunder.co.uk

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · Jun 19

Looking for a research associate to explore societal engagement with forest restoration on digital media – with @lboungr.bsky.social @wildflyingpanda.bsky.social @gabrielecolombo.bsky.social & more. Grateful for help sharing with those who might be interested! jonathangray.org/2025/05/31/s...

screenshot of https://forest-restoration.eu/

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Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming @sustainweb.org · May 13

Sustain responds to Land Use Framework consultation

▶️ 21 organisations sign joint response coordinated by Sustain, highlighting key oversights in the government's proposed framework, intended to guide future decision making about land use in England.

Sustain responds to Land Use Framework consultation | Sustain

21 organisations signed the joint response, highlighting key oversights in the government's proposed framework, intended to guide future decisionmaking about land use in England.

www.sustainweb.org

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IPBES @ipbes.net · May 13

📢FREE online course on Biodiversity Finance!

Learn to develop financially sound conservation solutions, conduct needs assessments & create effective finance plans.

➡️Adopt tools to make stronger business cases for biodiversity & nature.💼🌍🧪

Learn more: www.learningfornature.org/en/courses/b...

Biodiversity Finance – Learning for Nature

www.learningfornature.org

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Emmy @researchrestore.bsky.social · May 13

Emmy @researchrestore.bsky.social · Apr 4

Closes today! ⬇️

Institute of Development Studies (IDS) @ids.ac.uk · Mar 7

Survey: The #UK’s global #research priorities on nature

The UK government is seeking insights on its research priorities for nature and environment in #ODA (Official Development Assistance) settings. An online survey is open until 4 April.

universityofsussex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Green and brown mountains with white grey river flowing zig zag and yellow banner.

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Institute of Development Studies (IDS) @ids.ac.uk · Mar 7

Survey: The #UK’s global #research priorities on nature

The UK government is seeking insights on its research priorities for nature and environment in #ODA (Official Development Assistance) settings. An online survey is open until 4 April.

universityofsussex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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