International Biodiversity

30×30 Goal: How Much Will It Cost Latin America and the Caribbean to Achieve It? IDB policy brief estimates LAC can reach 30x30 goal by investing under 0.2% of GDP with tailored financing strategies.

#30×30 Goal: How Much Will It Cost #LatinAmerica and the #Caribbean (LAC) to Achieve It? This new IDB policy brief estimates LAC can reach 30x30 goal by investing under 0.2% of GDP with tailored financing strategies 🌍

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#Rewilding #Rewild #EcologyRestoration

Future agricultural policies need to integrate biodiversity targets into smart farming - npj Sustainable Agriculture Smart farming (SF), the use of advanced technologies such as sensors, the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, and automation, holds great promise for increasing agr...

As #farming becomes more tech-driven (sensors, #drones, #IoT, #AI, automation and #dataanalytics), upside in #sustainability may occur with benefits to #biodiversity from reduced inputs but this argument should not be taken for granted… 🌍

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#Agriculture

Measuring the Quality of Species List Contents Abstract. Taxonomic lists, usually of species, have many functions. However, there is currently no reliable and convenient way to determine whether a list

📊 Thomas Pape et al. introduce a set of indicators to assess species list quality, a tool to improve biodiversity data and its use in research and conservation 🌍🧬 

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🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🧪🌳🐝 Where to study degrees focusing on plants in UK and Ireland? Teams in #BUC2026 made single image of BSc/Masters/PhD opportunities at their 32 institutions. Great to get so much information about plant degrees together. (Also plants at some other places without a team this year!)

The hidden cost of beef Brazil’s Cerrado is being transformed by industrial agriculture - with British trade playing a direct role in the loss of water systems, biodiversity and climate stability.

What’s happening in the #Cerrado? 🌎

Learn about the multifaceted threats facing South America’s second-largest Ecodomain as covered by Monica Piccinini @monicapiccinini.bsky.social in @theecologist.org ⤵️

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Heartbreaking is right. Waiting to see the impact on the Burhou colony off Alderney and Jersey's last 3? breeding pairs. @alderneywt.bsky.social 🇯🇪🇬🇬🧪🌎 #jersey #alderney #channelislands #seabirds #birds

This is becoming a pervasive issue, for example involving the sidelining of actual experts and the heaping of pressure on regulatory bodies to move forward with dubious (re)introductions. A quick ecology 101 for ‘conservation gurus’. Thread 🌍🦗🦋🪶🦬🧪1/

Why so many mangrove restoration projects fail Mangroves have become a favored solution in climate and conservation circles. They absorb carbon, blunt storm surge and support fisheries. Funding has followed. Yet outcomes often lag ambition. In…

Why so many mangrove restoration projects fail news.mongabay.com/short-articl... 🧪 🦑 🌍️

Southern elephant seals recover in Southern Africa, but global picture is mixed The southern elephant seal population in South Africa has seen its conservation status improve from near threatened to least concern, with a recent assessment citing the absence of serious threats to…

Southern elephant seals recover in Southern Africa, but global picture is mixed news.mongabay.com/2026/02/sout... 🦑 🧪 🌍️

New data shows that planned #dams in the #GlobalSouth could push critically #endangeredfish to the brink

#Sustainable planning is needed that balances #energy goals with #ecosystemhealth 🌍

Draft paper: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

#Biodiversity #Hydropower #BiodiversityLoss

Are we underestimating the #biodiversity crisis? 🌍

This new meta-analysis shows many "bending the curve" scenarios miss a key factor: #ClimateChange

To truly reverse loss, need ambitious cross-sector action from what we eat to how we protect #nature

Full paper: www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

How Indigenous ideas about non-linear time can help us navigate ecological crises Māori, for instance, do not place the present at the centre; as some researchers put it, ‘there is no centre’.

Is it time 🕰️ for a change?

Linear timelines cut us off from past and future requiring a center point (the present) and mostly focused on us humans

Non-linear time, spiralling🌀time could help us to address our #climate / #ecological crises in new ways… 🌍

Link: theconversation.com/how-indigeno...

Big Bird: A global dataset of birds in drone imagery annotated to species level Drones are a valuable tool for surveying birds, but manually detecting and identifying birds in drone images is costly. We assembled a diverse dataset of 23 865 images of birds captured with 21 diffe...

In this work led by Josh Wilson, we labelled 4824 drone-based images containing 49990 birds from 101 species and trained a bird detection and ID model. The model achieved precision = 0.91 for detection & 0.65 for species/age/sex classification.
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Integrating UAV Remote Sensing and Field Ecology for Fine-Scale Mapping of Riparian Herbaceous Vegetation Dominant populations of riparian vegetation are early indicators of river ecosystem change and provide key information for ecological stewardship. How…

How are #herbaceousplants mapped at scale in dammed #rivers? The authors of this paper present an automated framework integrating quadrat surveys with #UAV #multispectralsensing achieving a 93.1% accuracy 🌍

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#RemoteSensing #UAV #EcoTech

Introducing #BiOS (Biodiversity Observatory System): an #open-source, FAIR-aligned stack designed to harmonise multi-typology data, from #genetics to #geospatial maps via a modular API and intuitive web interface! 🌍

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#MetaData #Biodiversity #PostgreSQL #PostGIS #GIS

Economics has failed on the climate crisis. This complexity scientist has a mind-blowing plan to fix that Doyne Farmer says a super-simulator of the global economy would accelerate the transition to a green, clean world

You can model every company on Earth in exquisite detail.

But economics doesn’t fail because it lacks complexity.
It fails because it assumes growth inside a finite system is negotiable.

China’s role in implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment This report examines how China can leverage its various roles and assets to promote the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

London School of Economics discusses how #China is implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global #Biodiversity Framework 🌍

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#30x30 #SDGs #SustainableDevelopment #Rewilding

What will #climatechange do to mutual ecological relationships? The Editor of Nature introduces the authors who may help explain 🌍

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#EcologicalRelationships #Mutualisms #symbiotic #ecosystems #Editorial

Ranking nations on ecological footprint of consumption | Infographic | Hinrich Foundation Visual Capitalist maps how Asia Pacific economies rank in their ecological consumption footprint, based on insights from the 2025 Hinrich-IMD Sustainable Trade Index.

The 2025 Hinrich-IMD #Sustainable Trade Index has been launched on Visual Capitalist maps ranking Asia-Pacific countries on #ecological #consumption footprint 🌍

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#Sustainability #Impact #SDGs #ESG

PES = Payment for Ecosystems

Large‐Scale Forest Restoration Accompanied by Biodiversity Recovery in Costa Rica's Redistributive Payment for Ecosystem Service Program Transforming recorded sound into meaningful ecological insights requires carefully designed methodologies. This workflow diagram describes the steps of our analysis (contained within circles labeled ...

New research from #Newfoundland shows that adding #eDNA to acoustic and video seafloor maps significantly improves understanding of #biodiversity, especially for sessile species 🌍

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#MarineEcology

Large‐Scale Forest Restoration Accompanied by Biodiversity Recovery in Costa Rica's Redistributive Payment for Ecosystem Service Program Transforming recorded sound into meaningful ecological insights requires carefully designed methodologies. This workflow diagram describes the steps of our analysis (contained within circles labeled ....

Well, this is interesting - results from this paper show #PES restored #forests are successfully sounding like mature forest again! Research in #CostaRica 🇨🇷 used #ecoacoustics at 119 sites 🌍

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Tipping points and ecosystem collapse are the real geopolitical risk (commentary) The focus of experts in global security tends to orbit familiar threats. War in Europe and the Middle East. Trade disruption and financial volatility. Technology shocks and threats to information inte...

#Ecosystemcollapse comes into focus as #security implications become clear 🌍

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#Geopolitics #TippingPoints #BiodiversityLoss

Climate Change in Gabon and its Effects on Biodiversity Studies show less carbon being absorbed by mangrove trees

@arcgispro.bsky.social storyboards Gabon’s 🇬🇦 #mangroves and impacts from #ClimateChange but documents issues from #urbanization and #OilandGas sector impacts 🌍

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#CoastalEcology #Carbon #Sequestration #GIS #Mapping

Five perspectives for turning biodiversity initiatives into corporate strengths - Showcase - DENTSU INC. In this article, we interviewed Asako Nagano, a forestry consultant at MORI-AGE, Inc., which aims to revitalize Japan’s forests and pass them on to the next generation, and Yuka Sawai from Dentsu Inc....

With #SustainabilityReporting from 2027, Japanese 🇯🇵 Corporates need to show their #biodiversity programs are working. This article looks at five perspectives which could help 🌍

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#ESG #BiodiversityAction

#Hydropower is making a comeback so good to see this long-term study and large-scale dataset made available from #Portugal 🇵🇹 🌍

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#FreshwaterEcology #Aquatics #Dams #Impacts #BiodiversityMonitoring

Biodiversity conservation has an evidence problem — it’s time to fix it Globally, more than one million species are threatened with extinction, but often interventions intended to protect biodiversity are not rooted in robust research. The field has an opportunity to chan...

#Nature Editorial looks at the gaping evidence gap in #biodiversity #conservation. With the @ipbes.net conference on in Manchester, UK there’s an opportunity to fix the problem 🌍

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#ConservationEvidence #ConservationAction #BiodiversityLoss ##Ecology

Forest edges and farmlands as key habitats for butterfly communities in a biodiversity hotspot: A case study from the Taita Hills, Kenya Global biodiversity is declining, largely due to the conversion of natural habitats into agricultural land, settlements, and exotic tree plantations. …

A study looking at #butterfly communities in forest edges and farmlands of Taita Hills, #Kenya yielded 144 species underline the importance of these habitats 🌍

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#Lepidoptera #Entemology #Insects #Africa #AgroEcology

FAIR digital twins for biodiversity: enabling data, model, and workflow integration - npj Biodiversity npj Biodiversity - FAIR digital twins for biodiversity: enabling data, model, and workflow integration

Looking at #Biodiversity #DigitalTwins that utilise Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) principles to help transform research and decision-making 🌍

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#BiodiversityDigitalTwin #BiodiversityAction #Ecosystems

Citizen scientists are spotting more and more rare frogs on private land Threatened frogs aren’t just found in national parks – citizen scientists are finding them throughout private land too.

Citizen scientists are spotting more and more rare #frogs on private land
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