Check out newly published Handbook of Wildlife Crime with starting premise of taking a critical approach to researching/understanding wildlife crime. With most wonderful coeditors @ahubschle.bsky.social R. Wong L. Gutierrez T. Wyatt & contributors
@geogdurham.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social
English late summer / autumn - I was too trusting of the weather forecast 🫣🥶🫣
So lovely to reconnect, exchange and share thoughts and ideas and meet your amazing research network. Looking forward to future collaborations ❣️
Thank you so much for the amazing and inspiring time in Sheffield. Really loved learning about the park system in the UK where the landed gentry, farmers and villagers live inside the Park. And property prices are sky high because of being located on the inside!
Three people and a dog stood on grey rocks looking out cactus’s moorland.
Two people shaking hands in front of the boundary marker for the National park (circular millstone)
We completed our exchange visit btwn UCT & Sheffield with, what else, but a trip around the Peak District National Park 😀 A perfect landscape to discuss land ownership patterns & models of National Parks - thanks so much to @ahubschle.bsky.social & Maano Ramutsindela for great conversations
11 people sitting around a white meeting table; water bottles & coffee cups on the table
PowerPoint slide on screen; it reads ‘peace parks without peace’
PowerPoint slide, it reads Harmscapes: Rethinking governance in socio ecological systems
This week we had a wonderful workshop with Maano Ramutsindela & @ahubschle.bsky.social this week; they respected their new research on transfrontier parks and harmscapes. It was a great way to meet old friends & new ⬇️
Amazing! Yes - we have a small evidence grant in the Northern and Western Cape regions to look into access and benefit sharing. It would be wonderful to compare notes!
This week at #SASE2025 I’m speaking about how inclusion and exclusion shape illegal wildlife markets. Succulents are just one example.
How do we build markets that centre justice, livelihoods, and ecological care?
#Succulents #IllegalMarkets #IWTChallengeFund #DEFRA #EconomicSociology
Grassroots harvesters and farmers in Southern Africa – who’ve cared for and used these plants for generations – are often criminalised or excluded, while retailers here profit off biodiversity with little traceability or benefit-sharing.
🪴 Saw some glorious succulents for sale in a Montreal supermarket today. Beautiful, commodified, accessible.
But it made me think about who doesn’t get to profit from these markets.
New from me in @africasacountry.bsky.social - the US-backed Lobito Corridor in the DRC is framed as development, but history suggests it’s another pipeline for foreign powers to profit from Congo’s riches. Read here: africasacountry.com/2025/03/new-...
I have been massively impacted by US funding cuts. I stayed silent hoping that things would change hoping appeals would succeed but silence is not golden. We need to talk about the irrational defunding of science funding in general, and specifically in South Africa.
www.linkedin.com/posts/annett...
The challenges and potential of artificial general intelligence in policing
policinginsight.com/feature/inno...
South Africa’s succulents – small, fleshy, green plants sometimes shaped like roses or stars, and often found peeping out between rocks in dry areas – are sought after by an increasingly international collector market
www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-202...
such a pleasure to present in Manchester on some of my newer work related to conservation justice and reconnect with colleagues there!
The conservation-focused NGO African Parks bought megafauna tycoon John Hume’s rhino breeding project for an “undisclosed sum” in 2023, with the noble aim of rewilding the animals over the next decade.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
It’s become a bit of a problem. Geotags and locations gleaned from science and social media has posts. Hopefully the conophytums that you saw are still there
South Africa’s rare succulent plants are threatened by illegal trade – how to stop it. New article by @jaredmargulies.bsky.social and I on ongoing research into illegal succulent supply and demand networks
theconversation.com/south-africa...
$1,131,794,901
That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.
Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.
@ahubschle.bsky.social and I have a new article out in @theconversation.com about how to approach the illegal succulent trade in South Africa through the lens of conservation justice.
theconversation.com/south-africa...
South Africa's excellent constitution strikes again:
The High Court has ruled that the country can't open new coal plants because that would violate citizens' rights to a healthy environment.
📄 New piece in @africasacountry.bsky.social
Raira and I explore how the fossil fuel industry appropriates the language of resource sovereignty, #decolonisation and #sustainabledevelopment critiques to expand extractavism and green colonialism on the continent.
africasacountry.com/2024/11/libe...
At the start of the emperor penguin chick fledging season five colonies have already been affected by early sea ice breakup. The purple dots below show which ones. Not as bad as the last two years, but worse than average.
Civilised world? Who’s that please?
Love the track so much! This mortal coil - Brings up memories. Thanks for sharing. Remember it also played in Requiem for a dream
🌊 Antarctica: A Fragile Harmscape 🐧
Article in #DailyMaverick on threats facing Antarctica—climate change, krill harvesting, and geopolitics. We are researching these issues, exploring how to protect this vital ecosystem through a harmscapes lens.
#Antarctica #Harmscapes #BlueCriminology
Thank you! So on it 😄
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Could you please add me Rosamunde?
