Ana Nuno

The War on Poaching Has Gone Full Tech Dystopia—and It May Not Be Working Surveillance technology intended to protect endangered species is weaponized against locals, with repercussions that range from harassment to physical violence.

Nice mention of our reporting in this very good @gizmodo.com piece on aggressive conservation enforcement in Africa gizmodo.com/the-war-on-p...

Óptima oportunidade para saber mais sobre o relatório da IUCN: "Integração da mudança de comportamento na conservação da biodiversidade: Necessidades, barreiras e caminhos a seguir"!

Webinar em português.

Link para inscrição:
lnkd.in/dvauD9MR

#conservation

New Graduate Student Grant Opportunity (MSc level)! The research must focus on pastoralists or mobile/nomadic people.

The grant will support fieldwork in North Africa and the Sahel, as well as in the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Apply by March 15th, 2026! lnkd.in/difZ4UbM

The high cost of misallocating the talent of women The blog introduces the Global Gender Distortions Index (GGDI), which quantifies the economic losses caused by gender-based barriers in labor markets. By combining wage gaps, participation differences...

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📣 Call for proposals to support locally driven coral conservation 🪸🪸🪸. ➡️ cordap.org/clip-award/
#OceanGrants 💶🌊 thanks to @cordap.bsky.social

Call for Experts: External Review Services Required! We are currently inviting consulting companies to apply as external reviewers for the assessment of project outlines under the IKI Large Grants 2025.

Application deadline: 27 January 2026

Details : buff.ly/JPOSd8k

Meanwhile in São Tomé & Príncipe
🥳Thanks for putting new information into peer reviewed research @gporrinos.bsky.social @ananuno.bsky.social @faunaflora.bsky.social etc. #OceanOptimism

New #OpenAcess paper! We used app-based, participatory landing surveys to monitor Small-Scale #Fisheries in #SãoTomé and #Príncipe. Fishers and fish traders collected high-resolution data on 12k+ fishing trips, filling critical data gaps for management. Read full article here doi.org/10.1111/csp2...

Exciting news! 🎉
Welcome to the Community Science SIG at the British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org!

Join us to connect, collaborate & celebrate community science:
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/citi...

#CommSciSIG #Ecology #CommunityScience

Agenda CE3C is committed to a sustainable future, is the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes. Know more about CE3C.

Want to know more about fisheries and marine protected areas in São Tomé and Príncipe? Then don't miss @gporrinos.bsky.social's presentation this Thursday (30th Oct)! Online at 4 p.m. (Lisbon time) www.ce3c.pt/agenda/encon...

BirdDRice: Reconciling agriculture with biodiversity conservation: functional equivalence and connectivity between natural wetlands and rice fields as waterbird habitats

Extremelly happy that our project BirdRice was approved for funding! We will keep studying the relationships between #waterbirds and #ricefields while trying to solve human-wildlife conflicts.
#ornithology #tracking #connectivity #agriculture #conservation
@cienciasulisboa.bsky.social

Idealized representation of the Cabo Verde Seamounts (oceanographic processes, faunal groups, depth zones, and human activities) based on the information compiled in the paper. On the top of the figure, location of the two most extensively studied seamounts—Cadamosto (southwest of Brava) and Senghor (northeast of Sal).

Seamounts of Cabo Verde: A review of their ecological and economic significance, anthropogenic impacts, and conservation needs
#openaccess

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Habitat use and diel activity of insectivorous bats across land‐cover types on an Afrotropical oceanic island Using acoustic surveys, we investigated habitat use and diel activity patterns of insectivorous bats across the main land-use types of the endemic-rich Príncipe Island, in Central West Africa. We sam...

Out last friday 📣 want to learn more about habitat use and diel activity of insectivorous bats 🦇 in different land-covers🏝️? Check our study in the endemic-rich Princípe Island, Central West Africa👇:
@ricardonature.bsky.social @tallyyoh.bsky.social

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👀 #ConsultancyOpportunity for a #SocialScience team interested in integrating the social domain for #OceanAccounts in Belize 🇧🇿

Led by Belize Ministry of Blue Economy and Marine Conservation & @oceanaccounts.bsky.social

🤔 Find out more: www.oceanaccounts.org/consultancy-...

Não deixe a UE destruir a proteção da natureza | #HandsOffNature - SPEA Temos 10 dias para impedir a Comissão Europeia de destruir proteções ambientais vitais. Diga-lhes para deixarem a natureza em paz.

A UE quer reverter proteções ambientais vitais. Prazo para travar isto: 10 de setembro ⏰
Diz-lhes para manterem as suas #HandsOffNature 👉 spea.pt/campanhas/ha...

Bridging policy and practice: A review of monitoring, control, and surveillance in managing illegal fishing in India With increasing pressure on marine ecosystems, effective Monitoring, Control, and Surveillance (MCS) measures are critical in managing Illegal, Unregu…

This is @oceancommunity.bsky.social's first paper! He looked at MCS policies in India and explored how they could be improved for managing IUU fishing. Well done for the great work! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @exetermarine.bsky.social @zslscience.bsky.social @iomarinescience.bsky.social

Donate to Ajudar o abutre-preto após incêndio no Douro Internacional, organized by Palombar ACNPR [PT] Ajude-nos na recuperação após o incêndio: Apoie o abutr… Palombar ACNPR needs your support for Ajudar o abutre-preto após incêndio no Douro Internacional

Last week, a devastating wildfire struck the Douro International Natural Park, burning over 15,000 hectares of vital feeding and breeding habitat of the cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus) in Portugal. Donate to help recovery #Conservation www.gofundme.com/f/ajuda-o-ab...

Mulago Foundation | Henry Fellows Program Through our Henry Arnhold Fellowship we find leaders with promising conservation and climate solutions and help them to design and deliver them at scale.

Innovative leader with a conservation/climate solution that works & has potential to go big?
Henry Fellowship offers:
🌊strategy retreats & coaching
🌊100K unrestricted grant upfront
🌊consideration for longer term funding
Recommendation deadline 7 August
www.mulagofoundation.org/henry-fellow...

Call for Abstracts is NOW OPEN for Sharks International 2026! 🦈

Help shape Sharks International 2026 - the world’s largest conference on sharks, rays, and chimaeras - taking place 4–8 May 2026 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

🔗 More info: si2026.org/participate/...

📸 Fabrice Dudenhofer

NGO funding opportunity for marine conservation in West Africa.
🌊 €30-40K over 12 months.
🌊 Deadline 25 August
🌊 Call for proposal by #PRCM ➡️ ogy.de/j7t3
#OceanOptimism

From rising seas to disappearing forests, small island developing states are facing some of the fiercest fallout from the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste.

But many of these countries are fighting back: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

Meet some of our senior researchers in the programme!

Our researchers work across different areas of the marine world and these researchers look at a mixture of turtle ecology, shark genomics, oceanography and social science
@ananuno.bsky.social‬
#MarineScience #Scientists

Establishing a Marine Protected Area network using a Marine Spatial Planning approach: A reflection on practical challenges and opportunities for social–ecological integration Often, the establishment of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and the application of Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) occur in parallel. Using São Tomé and Príncipe as a case study, we illustrate how MSP wa...

Research based on our first project with @faunaflora.bsky.social in 🇸🇹 ogy.de/ftuk
Thanks @ananuno.bsky.social and colleagues for sharing your experiences...
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An interoperable and standardized protocol for reporting systematic conservation planning projects A new standard protocol for contextualizing systematic conservation planning studies is presented and the potential benefits highlighted. By adopting such community reporting standards, scientists an...

Systematic conservation planning (SCP) has been established as key approach to identify where conservation efforts are to be prioritized. But how can they be assessed, compared or interrogated 🧐 Here we present ODPSCP, a new open protocol for the intercomparison of SCP doi.org/10.1111/csp2... (1)

Bots are breaking our field's data. Our latest research shares hard lessons from 3 of our recent studies disrupted by bots and scammers. We tested standard #frauddetection tools and many failed. #research #researchintegrity

Read more here: doi.org/10.1080/1050...

Participatory approaches to improving recreational fisheries management in a remote island system Marine recreational fisheries management is often impacted by data deficiencies and conflicting stakeholder views. Using participatory approaches can help to increase fisher engagement and identify t...

New paper on recreational fisheries in Diego Garcia (Chagos) led by Claire Collins: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Part of a SI I am putting together with @ricardonature.bsky.social in @conservationsp.bsky.social ! @zslofficial.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social #conservationscience🌎

Small-scale fisheries are vital to coastal communities across the globe, but do we really understand how they operate? Our new paper is out!

image showing small fishing boats in Asia. Text overlayed reads 'new research. a synthesis of research into marine small-scale fishers' operational behaviour. warner et al 2025 marine policy'

NEW RESEARCH lead by Exeter Marine researchers assesses the global research on small scale fisheries behaviour and reveals just how young and limited the data really is.

👉 Full paper in Marine Policy - doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...

🦑🌍🦤🌊🌐🧪🐟🎣
#AcademicSky #Fisheries #MarinePolicy