🚨 New podcast episode available now!
🌳 We speak to recently published People and Nature author Marilisa Herchet about the mental health benefits of urban green 🏙️
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🌟 New blog from our Associate Editor Chiara Bragagnolo ➡️ buff.ly/XDSlsTt
📖 Read the full paper on hydropower infrastructure and its influence on hydrosocial relations in the Lower Sogamoso River, Colombia here ➡️ buff.ly/5mCIIjC
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🤝 we're recruiting an Associate Blog Editor!
📝 join us in identifying, commissioning, and editing blog posts for Animal Ecology in Focus
🐝 more information on the role and how to apply can be found here: buff.ly/I9Kf6Er
Don't forget to register for our next MEE live!
In this free webinar, we'll hear from Drs Figueiredo and Radchuk about the R package estar 🌍 🧪
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How do you design a camera-trap workflow that is field-resilient and analysis-ready?
Join our webinar as Dr. Hugo Magaldi and Prof. Sabrina Krief discuss camera‑trapping in Uganda and their development of DeepForestVision for AI species labelling and quality control 📸
See here 👇
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🚨Our March issue is now live!
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🐝 Our amazing cover image depicts the special relationship between wild honeyguides and the humans they guide to wild bees’ nests. Read more about these honeyguides here
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🚨 New perspective piece - How to face Environmental crises? By aligning actions across roles, ecologists & environmental scientists can do more for a sustainable future, and professional societies can help them!
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/3d1GZZL
🌍️ The dynamics of wild and alternative meat consumption across Gabon, Central Africa - "Wild and alternative meat and fish consumption is influenced by urbanisation, isolation, and prices."
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/d2Sh2dj
New study analysed 4k images from UK rewilding organizations & AI images
📸 Charismatic species and scenic views
💀 Death and decay mostly absent
👥 Few people depicted
🤖 AI imagery reproduces these exclusionary representations
Time to diversify!
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👥 Engaging people in educational processes that foster environmentally valuable outcomes: A synthesis of key findings across eight systematic reviews
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/GemXxr4
We're finally seeing the sun at BES HQ in London 🌞 and it feels like t-shirt weather!
To celebrate, there's free UK shipping on BES t-shirts - and everything else in our shop - this weekend 👕
Order from 9am Friday to midnight Sunday (GMT) - no codes needed 😎 britishecologicalsociety.teemill.com
🌏️Using a multilayer network built from local knowledge in PNG, new study shows how species can underpin ecosystem service flows and the link between these species' roles and their human value
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🌳 Contact to urban nature is beneficial for public mental health: New meta-analysis summarizes 107 pre-post control comparisons found positive and significant effects for anxiety, stress, mood, depression, restoration and attention
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📑 Developing ocean literacy through a relational model: Exploring outcomes of a place-based ocean education programme in primary schools
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/WM9jBj7
🌊 From commons to commoning as resistance efforts to blue injustice: A sociohistorical and ethnographical approach
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🌱 Using long-term vegetation cover trends from the Atrato River, a new study explores how ecological indicators can inform the implementation of rights-of-nature rulings—and why governance, and communities are essential for making rights visible.
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🎶New study highlights how musical improvisation in a forest setting promotes embodied creativity and co-creation with nature. Analyses show spontaneous sound integration, elevated positive emotions, and nature’s role in creative expression
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🚨 Deadline update - 8th March
🌟 We're looking for Associate Editors to join our People and Nature editorial board
Find out more and apply here ➡️ buff.ly/LvTJGnW
In the latest episode of the @britishecologicalsociety.org podcast you can hear the story behind our research on the importance of considering social & cultural values when restoring 'lost' tree species: open.spotify.com/episode/3zRJ... 🎙️🌳
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🌱 Overnight summer camps can boost kids’ emotional affinity for nature—even for those with limited green space at home. Meaningful experiences make the difference. Small gains can ripple into lifelong stewardship #NatureConnection #YouthDevelopment
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/fdyoVcM
🐦 What drives people to protect birds?
Findings reveal that early emotional nature experiences shape biospheric values, while structured settings directly foster engagement. A tailored mix of both may best promote bird conservation.
📖 Read here ➡️ buff.ly/yXhfxi0
🪲 The Noble Chafer is a species that shows a precarity of habitat that rests on complimentary landscape management choices. This invertebrate bioindicator is used to explore the direct impact of changes to England’s orchard landscapes on biodiversity
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/qRmDOtl
🌊 Science + local knowledge = better marine management. In NW Portugal, stakeholders prioritised regulation & maintenance ecosystem services, identified coastal hotspots and conflicts, showing the value of integrating local insight with science.
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/LfpbfN3
🚶➡️Busy schedules hinder urban adults' engagement in nature education, yet provisional learning, embodied experiences, and routinized nature interactions can enhance their connections with nature, self, others, and urban environments.
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/J4TO5dJ
🐧🌏Species aren't just part of a place- they help make it. New study in Tasmania, found penguins and muttonbirds to strengthen #PlaceAttachment indirectly through emotional and experiential bonds. These bonds can even carry to other places that look or sound the same.
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🏘️ Survey of 10,462 people in 33 European countries shows unequal access to urban forests & parks. Younger people & women visit more, but travel time, poor links & few amenities limit use. This new paper calls for inclusive urban planning that serves all.
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🚨🌳 Forwarding forest restoration: Seven key socio-ecological issues for advancing forest restoration in a world in flux
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/fjJjuSX
🚨 New podcast episode available now!
🍃 This episode explores the story behind the paper, "Social and cultural considerations for the restoration of ‘lost’ tree species: The fall and rise of elm".
@forest-protection.bsky.social
🎙️ Listen to the podcast here ➡️https://buff.ly/RkB8bvv
🛣️ Wildland–urban interface expansion: Towards comprehensive planning processes
"The WUI isn’t just about wildfire risk. Amenity-led migration, tourism, and housing pressures drive WUI expansion, affecting diverse social groups"
📖 Read the paper ➡️ buff.ly/bG49j6Y
👥 What makes citizen science work across borders? This paper about the LookforCowslips campaign in 31 European countries shows that local socio-cultural context matters as much as ecology, and no single communication strategy fits all.
#CitizenScience
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