Bilal Mustafa FRGS

Oxford/Lahore📍Filling my brain with natural history 🐆 @WildCRU_Ox @Oxfordbiology Fellow @RGS_IBG @LinneanSociety member @iucnssc @CrocSpecGroup @IUCNSULI

[Bilal Mustafa FRGS @itswildbilal]

It was a pleasure to spend 2023 at @WildCRU_Ox doing some impactful research and to put a small part in this collaboration with @OxfordPakistan for future generations and #wildlife of #Pakistan

[WildCRU, Oxford @WildCRU_Ox]

.@OxfordPakistan supports talented #Pakistani #conservationists to join WildCRU’s Diploma programme. Inaugural OPP-WildCRU scholar Bilal Mustafa has been conducting research into #gharial crocodiles & helping plan an associated lecture series.
Learn more: https://t.co/v3tnhWzwmn

[Bilal Mustafa FRGS @itswildbilal]

@WWF where did the 77.8 Million Dollars for the Recharge Pakistan Program from the Green Climate Fund, @UsAiDPaid @CocaCola go? @WWFPak Who have industrialists on their Board? Did Charters work in Pakistan?

[WWF-Pakistan @WWFPak]

Climate change, deforestation, poor planning, and obstructed waterways have left us more vulnerable to disasters. Which is why it’s critical for all of us as policymakers, businesses, and governments to adopt actionable measures that build climate resilience for generations to come.

Hear from our expert,@MakhdoomMasood, on where we went wrong and how the Climate Crises Charter (2022) offers solutions for a climate-resilient future.

Read more: https://t.co/hndOeijzmG

[WWF-Pakistan @WWFPak]

Climate change, deforestation, poor planning, and obstructed waterways have left us more vulnerable to disasters. Which is why it’s critical for all of us as policymakers, businesses, and governments to adopt actionable measures that build climate resilience for generations to come.

Hear from our expert,@MakhdoomMasood, on where we went wrong and how the Climate Crises Charter (2022) offers solutions for a climate-resilient future.

Read more: https://t.co/hndOeijzmG

[Oxford Pakistan Programme @OxfordPakistan]

1/ The Oxford Pakistan Programme (OPP) stands on the shoulders of visionary donors who have helped deserving but underprivileged Pakistani students gain access to @UniofOxford.

[prerna singh bindra 🐘🐅🐾 @prernabindra]

The @MoEFCC has patted itself on the back for #India’s modest (& false) #forest cover increase as per the 2023 @ForestSurvey report #ISFR2023, a sham which #PrakritiSrivastava @kr@krithika_1193 & myself unravel here: https://t.co/2BTYyNWG15.
There are more shockers in #ISFR2023 #India’s #GreenCoverScam. Read an analysis by #PrakritiSrivastava @krithika & myself : 1/n
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https://t.co/fTUGUuxFg1

[Bilal Mustafa FRGS @itswildbilal]

Well deserved because of your hard work and enthusiasm 🫶

[Prof. Anjali Goswami FRS @anjgoswami]

I'm still in shock & extremely honoured to be elected as a fellow @royalsociety! I have the world's best job & am so grateful for my wonderful family & amazing mentors, colleagues & students @NHM_London @uclbiosciences @ES_UCL @UChicagoPaleo @UMichPaleo. https://t.co/4oYcs1No4Z

[Martin Brandt @matin_brandt]

We mapped a half billion individual farmland trees in India, and tracked their fate over a decade. Many large trees have disappeared. The paper in Nature Sus.: https://t.co/GcDVfuKtKA, Viewer: https://t.co/rdY5tQB5BF. It's a new framework for temporal monitoring of single trees..

[diogoverissimo.bsky.social @verissimodiogo]

Crazy that in just 30 mins AI was able to create this song that summarizes a paper in @OryxTheJournal where we use SMS surveys to understand #songbird ownership and #shark consumption in Indonesia

Is this what science communication looks like post-AI?

https://t.co/zNYDQEnb1f

[Dr. William J. Ripple @WilliamJRipple]

Consider ecological overshoot.

[Amy Dickman 🦁 @amydickman.bsky.social @AmyDickman4]

Wonderful to be at a @BlavatnikSchool event with @jacindaardern, Amal Clooney & other inspirational people involved with the @EarthshotPrize. A fantastic evening of fun and hope!

[Julie K. Young, Ph.D. @DrJulieKYoung]

A very nice journalist asked me about our research with @MontanaFWP: Grizzly bears were pillaging farms. Could a canine keep them away? | Science | AAAS https://t.co/jOQEHsett1

[Sayam U. Chowdhury @SayamChowdhury]

16 years ago, I created a Facebook group 'Birds Bangladesh' just for fun and to exchange birdwatching info, which gradually evolved into nation's largest citizen-science-driven online database for biodiversity. Several papers were published using that dataset; here is how:

[Dantonio @Daniel_A_Villar]

Given the date and surname, I assume that the pro-Empire Mr Bandaranaike is S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, at the time an aspiring @OxfordUnion hack studying at House, and later on Prime Minister of an independent Sri Lanka

[Amy Dickman 🦁 @amydickman.bsky.social @AmyDickman4]

Great piece by @HayleySClements @ForceCT & Matthew Child (can't find his X handle) on why the new #biodiversity strategy in South Africa is a positive step forwards for #wildlife and people https://t.co/VZF9verBEW

[prerna singh bindra 🐘🐅🐾 @prernabindra]

#Deserts are NOT barren @anandmahindra @MahindraRise. #deserts r vibrant #ecosystems hosting #endangered #wildlife- #GreatIndianBuastards #LesserFloricans -both virtually #extinct -#wolves #fox #raptors -& more
Such mega solar 'farms'-no power plants r NOT green-not when u consider the destruction to native #ecology (on which also depend local people) -& the #infra they require and rare earth , other minerals essential to their manufacture

[Paige Madison @FossilHistory]

#OnThisDay in 1869, Charles Darwin wrote to Alfred Russel Wallace "I hope you have not murdered too completely your own & my child." He was referring to their joint theory of evolution, after learning that Wallace didn't believe the theory extended to humans.

[Amy Dickman 🦁 @amydickman.bsky.social @AmyDickman4]

Proud to have been recognised alongside Alayne by @DisneyConserves as one of their pioneering women in #conservation! An incredible line up of inspirational women, & the women (and men!) in all the wider teams that enable them should be recognised as well https://t.co/na78DZKLTY

[Amy Dickman 🦁 @amydickman.bsky.social @AmyDickman4]

I'm quite sceptical of these kinds of approaches, esp the 'de-extinction' approach from Colossal. Rather than high-tech, costly restorations, wouldn't it be much better to focus those ££ on maintaining wild habitat & existing #biodiversity?

[Chantal Lyons @CSLyons]

Rather saddening that a photo of a pheasant was a category winner in the British Wildlife Photo Awards. Perhaps next year I should enter a photo of a stray housecat?

[prerna singh bindra 🐘🐅🐾 @prernabindra]

the #shark is to the #seas #oceans what the #tiger is to the #forest , yet no outrage when millions are killed for their #fins-the rest dumped back to see
#sharks are #endangered #wildlife not just 'fisheries'

[Bilal Mustafa FRGS @itswildbilal]

There was once a donkey rush in Pakistan because of Chinese market demand. Remember even our provincial government established a donkey farm

[WildCRU, Oxford @WildCRU_Ox]

Research by WildCRU & @OxfordSBS highlights how the #donkey #skin #trade, is linked to unsustainable wildlife & timber trades. This work has informed a new continent-wide ban by the African Union on the trade in donkey skins.
See https://t.co/eshDXsCjuY & https://t.co/YkTA2CKnyi