HELICS

Helsinki Lab of Interdisciplinary Conservation Science

[HELICS @HELICS_Lab]

New research! Lab founder Enrico di Minin is an author on this paper exploring the cultural differences in attitudes towards wildlife and how these can originate from varying colonial histories. https://t.co/rnW1dwSWlV

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🌟Excited to share a new paper from HELICS!📄✨
Based on text & image data from the Chinese social media platform Weibo, we reveal how people emotionally respond to urban nature and how different parks contribute to diverse emotional well-being benefits.🌿
https://t.co/MN06Fc2A2X

[HELICS @HELICS_Lab]

Happy Biodiversity Day! 🌱🐼🌍

[UN Environment Programme @UNEP]

Biodiversity is the variety of life on Earth — from plants and animals to tiny microorganisms — that keeps our ecosystems healthy and resilient. 

Yet habitat loss, pollution, and climate change are pushing nature to the brink.  

This #BiodiversityDay, find out how you can take action: https://t.co/4Eu0PlD5yD

[HELICS @HELICS_Lab]

Enjoyed this camera trap video, with one small step in the fight against habitat fragmentation 🦧

[ABC News @ABC]

A Sumatran orangutan has been filmed for the first time using a human-made canopy bridge to cross a public road on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, conservationists said Monday.

[HELICS @HELICS_Lab]

Brilliant work from our Data Science MSc students today! New dashboard tracking online interest in species worldwide 📊🦎🌿

Discovering which species people search for—and what that tells us about conservation priorities. Stay tuned!

#DataScience #BiodiversityConservation

[HELICS @HELICS_Lab]

🚨🚨New research alert: Spotted hyaena distribution in Kenya is shaped not just by prey or livestock, but by humans’ propensity to kill them.

Understanding human behavior is key to carnivore #conservation. 🌍🍪

Open access: https://t.co/qA55gJLyRZ

@helsinkiuni

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

The planet’s undisturbed old-growth boreal forests may be far more important in the fight against climate change than previously realized, according to a new Science study, which finds that primary forests in Sweden store over 70% more carbon than managed secondary forests.

Learn more: https://t.co/jKr1Dgqb2D

[HELICS @HELICS_Lab]

Conservation planning experts in training ✨ The annual Spatial conservation planning course at #HelsinkiUni is well underway, led by HELICS members. Today is our second practical on using the cutting-edge Zonation 5 conservation prioritization software. Exciting stuff! 🖥️🌍🌿

[HELICS @HELICS_Lab]

Great catch-up and celebrations for a new paper out!

At today’s HELICS meeting, we had our regular catch-up, shared recent research progress, and celebrated Federico’s new paper out with oat cookies, macarons and bubbles.

Cheers!🥂

[HELICS @HELICS_Lab]

New in @PLOSONE: Our protocol for a global systematic map of the indirect drivers of biodiversity loss. Full paper: https://t.co/XPkJAfZhv9

Congrats to Federico Grossi & the team! 👏 #ConservationScience #Biodiversity (2/2)

[HELICS @HELICS_Lab]

What causes biodiversity loss? Land- and sea-use change, overexploitation, invasive species, climate change, and pollution are the direct drivers pushing species towards extinction - but what are the indirect drivers behind them? 📉(1/2)

[HELICS @HELICS_Lab]

Destroying wild ecosystems doesn't just reduce biodiversity but has repercussions for local communities losing ecosystem services and contributes to the climate disaster by eliminating these valuable carbon sinks. At HELICS we're examining the drivers behind trends like this.

[PNASNews @PNASNews]

Deforestation gets all the attention, but wetlands and grasslands like Brazil’s Cerrado are being converted to agriculture at four times the rate of forests worldwide. Half of the converted land becomes pasture and 27% becomes food crops. In PNAS: https://t.co/JPNzKJuWzh

[iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv]

Social media may provide data that can revolutionise our understanding of species distribution - and strengthen global biodiversity datasets, for example.
New paper by iDiv alumnus @shawan_c in Conservation Biology: https://t.co/JjWSroml6a

[HELICS @HELICS_Lab]

Happy #WorldWildlifeDay! Let's keep doing the work to bring more and more wild populations towards recovery.

[UN Environment Programme @UNEP]

One million of the world’s estimated 8 million species are threatened with extinction.

But hope is not lost. #GenerationRestoration is reviving habitats, bringing back homes for threatened species.

This #WorldWildlifeDay, discover six species making a comeback:
https://t.co/ux7vKjH4pb

[HELICS @HELICS_Lab]

It’s the Saimaa ringed seal! 🦭
1️⃣ Population: <200 in Finland
2️⃣ Tracks: Oversized paw prints in snow
3️⃣ Habitat: Only in Lake Saimaa
Want to know more?❄️ Take a look at: https://t.co/IjDeDowRAk

#SaimaaSeal #WildlifeConservation

[HELICS @HELICS_Lab]

Guess the endangered species 🌊
1️⃣ Fewer than 200 of us live in Finland
2️⃣ We leave oversized tracks in fresh snow
3️⃣ Our home is a freshwater lake in Saimaa

Did you guess? 🤔
#EndangeredSpecies #Conservation

[HELICS @HELICS_Lab]

Fuel for ideas and a taste of tradition 🍰

At today’s HELICS meeting, as we discussed upcoming teaching courses, we enjoyed a laskiaispulla a cardamom bun with cream, traditional for Laskiainen.

Almond paste or jam, which do you prefer?

#HELICS #Laskiainen #Finland

[HELICS @HELICS_Lab]

Great talks on network science & biodiversity complexity for Federico Grossi with Anne-Sophie Crépin and @Daniel_AvOr at the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics. Sharp feedback & perfect weather for a face-to-face encounter with Stockholm's nature (frozen lake dip included)!

[HELICS @HELICS_Lab]

Abigail Parker & Fedor Zolotarev presented two #BIOBANG posters at #SBDIDays in Stockholm.

Tough crowd when you're competing with a life-size moose for attention, but the poster session brought great conversations! #BiodiversityInformatics #ComputerVision #AIforEcology

[MiquelTTconservation @Miquel_TT]

🚨New Research Alert! 🌍

Evidence from 14 nature-dependent communities shows that sites with higher perceived climate change impacts report lower life satisfaction.

#WellBeing #ClimateImpacts #IndigenousPeoples

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https://t.co/QnHY3WSf6y