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Integrating medicine & conservation in New Guinea's rainforests, Britain's national parks & beyond. www.wildhealth.org.uk Buy medicines for indigenous peoples defending threatened rainforest: www.wildhealth.org.uk/wanang Chair: @DrJMiddleton.bsky.social
New @sussex.ac.uk film on allying with indigenous peoples to provide medical services & protect rainforest. Features our chair @drjmiddleton.bsky.social & photos by @drjastockdale.bsky.social. #PlanetaryHealth
Buy medicines for the conservation clinic: wildhealth.org.uk/wanang
youtu.be/qWlO9lR0oHo
"The forest of New Guinea will stand or fall in one human generation. And what will mainly determine the outcome is going to be the tenacity and the resistance of forest peoples and the work of indigenous researchers and conservationists."
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New @sussex.ac.uk film on my @bsmsmedschool.bsky.social @sussexsrp.bsky.social work with indigenous peoples providing health services & protecting rainforest (inc. beautiful photos by @drjastockdale.bsky.social).
Buy meds for the conservation clinic: wildhealth.org.uk/wanang
youtu.be/qWlO9lR0oHo
Last day today of the Lewes exhibition showing of SURFACES. Learn how opening a clinic for forest peoples improved community health & enabling #conservation of 150 km² of biodiverse #rainforest (storing 1.5M tonnes of carbon). Photos @drjastockdale.bsky.social, story @drjmiddleton.bsky.social.
⚠️ A health crisis is overwhelming the Yanomami people in Venezuela ⚠️
“We have a very, very serious pandemic that is attacking children. Diarrhoea, parasites, high fever. Children are bleeding from their noses.” - a Yanomami health agent from Mavaca.
How has setting up a health clinic in Papua New Guinea protected 150 km² of rainforest from being destroyed by logging companies? 🏥 🌲
Find out in 'SURFACES', a multimedia exhibition which is part of the Climate Action! Festival at the Lewes Depot, from July 5: www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...
Three indigenous biodiversity scientists on training on how to manage fieldwork injuries (pictured splinting fractures) in Papua New Guinea's threatened rainforest.
#WildernessFirstAid training to empower indigenous #biodiversity scientists to manage fieldwork injuries in New Guinea's threatened #rainforest.
Explore project videos & articles: wildhealth.org.uk/papua-new-gu...
Donate meds for Wanang #Conservation Area's clinic: wildhealth.org.uk/wanang
Exhibition poster: SURFACES: Integrating medicine, conservation, and climate action in Papua New Guinea’s threatened rainforests — a joint exhibition with photographs Dr Jessica Stockdale and story by Dr Jo Middleton. 5 – 17 July 2025, Depot, Lewes, East Sussex. The verdant tropical rainforest of New Guinea is the third largest remaining on the planet. It is home to myriad unique species, and diverse human cultures speaking 800+ languages. However, these forests are being stripped away by multinational logging companies, and their populations face significant daily health challenges. SURFACES is a free exhibition using photography, narrative, and video to tell the story of successful action in response to these crises. As part of an indigenous-led conservation alliance researchers have established medical services for forest peoples, funded by the UK Darwin Initiative and Sussex Sustainability Research Programme. This has improved community health, and enabled protection of 150 km² of biodiverse rainforest, storing 1.5 million tonnes of carbon. This showing of SURFACES is being hosted by Depot, a charity-run cinema, restaurant, and bar in Lewes (East Sussex, UK), as part of its annual Climate Action Festival. If your not from the area, why not make a day of it and see the many historic sights of Lewes, recently ranked by The Telegraph as Britain’s prettiest town. Depot is next to Lewes train station (1 hr 2 mins direct train from London Victoria, travel directions). Everyone is welcome, and please spread the word! Exhibition details: https://wildhealth.org.uk/f/lewes-exhibition-about-conservation-health-in-papua-new-guinea#2ff73be2-315e-43f1-81c9-2bfea5f3652b
Exhibition tour begins on how we (@sussexsrp.bsky.social @bsmsmedschool.bsky.social + friends) opened a clinic for forest peoples, improving community health & enabling #conservation of 150 km² of biodiverse #rainforest (storing 1.5M tonnes of carbon). Photos @drjastockdale.bsky.social, story by me.
We published this paper 1yr ago today on #Tick hazard in the #SouthDownsNationalPark + how to control without reducing ecosystem health. Free-to-read in @peerj.bsky.social: peerj.com/articles/17483.
Funding & support: @rsb.org.uk @southdownsnp.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org + others
Missionaries, disease and racism. The history of the Indigenous Hongana Manyawa people in Indonesia over the past few decades has been a struggle for survival and self-determination.
Act now: svlint.org/IndonesiaB
Did you know that Papua New Guinea is home to the THIRD largest rainforest on Earth? 🌲
For #ForestDay, our researcher Jo Middleton of @bsmsmedschool.bsky.social tells us about their vital work combining forest protection and medical provision in the region.
Read: www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...
Article by our Chair + friends @uniofbrighton.bsky.social evaluating tick hazard across #SouthDownsNationalPark, with action suggestions for land managers: wildhealth.org.uk/britains-nat...
Funders: British Deer Society @britishecologicalsociety.org @royalsocbio.bsky.social
#LymeDisease #Ticks
Article by our Chair + friends @uniofbrighton.bsky.social evaluating tick hazard across #SouthDownsNationalPark, with action suggestions for land managers: wildhealth.org.uk/britains-nat...
Funders: British Deer Society @britishecologicalsociety.org @royalsocbio.bsky.social
#LymeDisease #Ticks
Free to read @bmj.com Open: Our clinical & rapid anthropological assessment of health service needs & perspectives of a #rainforest conserving community in #PapuaNewGuinea. #DarwinInitiative funded #PlanetaryHealth action. #MedicalAnthropology #Epidemiology #OneHealth bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/1...
Our chair was on EU-FCCB panel last week interviewing #PapuaNewGuinean potential biodiversity students for MPhil's at #PNG universities: 21 full scholarships now awarded. 20 more to be awarded next round, so if your #PNG keep in eye on: fccbpng.eu/scholarships...
