Emily

Conservation campaigner and social scientist 🌿, bookworm 📚 and wannabe-writer ✍️ 🏳️‍🌈

[Emily @SciEms]

Our paper discussing the importance of HOW we talk about nature in the context of COVID-19 is available now here 😃🌳💬➡️https://t.co/6stnMa4Fpr

Thanks again to my co-authors @AlexKusmanoff @GeorgiaGarrard @sbekessy and Lindall Kidd! 💚@ICON_Science #scicomm #ConSocSci

[Emily @SciEms]

1/9 As COVID-19 continues to (rightly) dominate media headlines, conservation professionals need to consider carefully how we talk about and draw connnections between the pandemic and biodiversity...#scicomm

[Emily @SciEms]

@ZoosVictoria

[Zoos Victoria @ZoosVictoria]

Spring is right around the corner, which means Bogong Moths are beginning their epic migration!

Keep an eye out for these Endangered moths in your surroundings and log your sightings on Moth Tracker.

Additional footage - Sammy Hawker

[Ecological Society of Australia @EcolSocAus]

Together with partners at @Deakin, @Sydney_Uni, @QUT and @CurtinUni, we are running a survey on taxonomic bias in Australia. We would like to hear from individuals in a variety of ecological sectors and across the breadth of Australian taxa.⁠

📝: https://t.co/XpapwoZgLd⁠

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[Biodiversity Council @Biodivcouncil]

More than two dozen eminent Australian scientists have called on @ausgov to commit significant federal funding towards nature in a whole page ad in @australian. Read their statement here: https://t.co/DToOfj5Dkp

@james_trezise : “There is one simple solution to the extinction crisis – investing in species and habitat recovery. If we invested just 1% of the federal budget in nature, we could stop that decline by 2030. Without it, we will not meet our global commitment”

[Dr Lily van Eeden @lilyvaneeden]

How do we change behaviours to improve human-nature relationships? Real world implementation and evaluation is hard. We describe an implementation framework and identify knowledge gaps based on our experience as an academic-government collaboration https://t.co/tWEuHn8HyD

[Biodiversity Council @Biodivcouncil]

We are calling on @QldGov to live up to its responsibility to protect the incredible wildlife and ecosystems of the #LakeEyreBasin by stopping the construction of new oil and gas facilities on its wetlands and floodplains.
https://t.co/xWnn56bhUM
📷 MisterT42 CC-BY-SA-4.0

[Richard McLellan  / kaarnka (raven/crow - Martu) @RichardMcLellan]

Clever ad from WWF-Germany: “Protect our wildlife / animal species, before it’s too late”
#extinction #ThreatenedSpecies
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#Twitter #TwitterBird #TwitterX

[ICCB @ICCB2025]

Don't miss the #ICCB2023 @SCBOceania social today at lunchtime!
A chance for SCB Oceania members and those interested in #conservation in Oceania to get together informally to catch up and discuss issues in the region. Lunch provided: Sign up at: https://t.co/D8tkxkFsVD

[ICCB @ICCB2025]

🎉🎉🎉
The location for #ICCB2025 has officially been announced: it will be in Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia!
#conservation #conference #ICCB

[Ricardo Rocha @RicardoNature]

Also in today's poster session:

"Decolonizing biological science: a call to reconsider the naming of species after people" (led by @PGuedes2) and based on our @natureecoeo paper "Eponyms have no place in 21st-century biological nomenclature" #ICCS23 #DiversityInConservation 👇

[Holly Kirk (@hollykirk .bluesky.social) @HollyKirk]

Inclusive & ethical language is important when it comes to communicating top-down conservation in particular @SciEms from @ICON_Science presents her paper at #ICCB2023 unpacking this, with some great tips for ethical communication
https://t.co/uwhFUaaa9k
#ConSocSci

[Holly Kirk (@hollykirk .bluesky.social) @HollyKirk]

@HollieBooth @sbekessy @ICON_Science @sophusticated @BrenWintle Wrapping up, @M_Selinske #ICCB2023 presents results of a backcasting exercise to explore how we might get to a beautiful biodiverse City of London - what would the pathway be?#naturePositive
This helped the group of identify targets & actions, and what kind of metrics are needed.

[Holly Kirk (@hollykirk .bluesky.social) @HollyKirk]

@HollieBooth @sbekessy @ICON_Science @sophusticated @BrenWintle Dale Wright has been exploring what a #naturePositive assessment looks like for an Aussie water utility company #ICCB2023
Used a range of methods to assess biodiversity footprints to understand direct, upstream & downstream impacts
Construction & maintenance have greatest impacts

[Holly Kirk (@hollykirk .bluesky.social) @HollyKirk]

@HollieBooth @sbekessy @ICON_Science Now @sophusticated explores ways to upscale environmental finance systems #ICCB2023
This will be vital to find funds for meeting #naturePositive goals.

New methods are emerging, but nearly all current markets are defensive, which is definitely an issue!

[Holly Kirk (@hollykirk .bluesky.social) @HollyKirk]

@HollieBooth @sbekessy @ICON_Science #ICCB @sbekessy says that offsets normalize the idea that it is ok to destroy nature.

#naturepositive

[Holly Kirk (@hollykirk .bluesky.social) @HollyKirk]

@HollieBooth Now #ICCB2023 @sbekessy @ICON_Science promotes ONSETS not OFFSETS for truly #naturePositive development
We need to do things differently!
Need to think about conservation laws as agents of SOCIAL change.

We can't just pay $$ for loss of nature when what is lost is irreplaceable.

[Holly Kirk (@hollykirk .bluesky.social) @HollyKirk]

Amazing to be at the opening ceremony of #ICCB2023 in Kigali, Rwanda - 1200 plus #conservation scientists and practitioners here, representing over 100 countries.

Excited for the next few days - lots of people to meet and science to absorb!

[Holly Kirk (@hollykirk .bluesky.social) @HollyKirk]

Excited to be heading to #ICCB2023 today with my @ICON_Science colleagues @sbekessy @M_Selinske @SciEms & Dale Wright!

It's my first #conservationScience conference, and I'm really looking forward to meeting people!

Any folks here going? I'd love to meet up! *Waves & grins*

[Biodiversity Council @Biodivcouncil]

Biodiversity is in crisis but what can I do about it? Research by @RMIT @M_Selinske @sbekessy has identified 10 easy actions you can take. If lots of people get on board the benefit for nature would be huge. See the actions in this factsheet
https://t.co/hkuF0pd5Ez

[Sarah Bekessy @sbekessy]

This work was led by the fabulous Tash Ward from @RMIT and co-authored by @bradmoggo @GeorgiaGarrard @SciEms @AlexKusmanoff as well as Ben May, Marnie Pascoe, Uncle Dave Wandin, Michael Harrison and Fiona McConachie @ICON_Science