🐾 Feast or famine: How food deserts, wealth and greenspace correlate with coyote diets in Seattle, Washington 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/6FXIvdI

📖 Heterogeneous preferences for use and non-use values provided by insects These results suggest that public support for conservation decisions may be enhanced by emphasising longer-term, intergenerational benefits, even for uncharismatic or unfamiliar taxa 🪲 🔎 buff.ly/hefnXjy

🐅 Assessing terrestrial vertebrates as potential biodiversity indicators of ecosystem services in multifunctional landscapes 🌍 📖 Read more ➡️ buff.ly/YVeAJ7S

🌍 The value of regeneration: Promoting regeneration as a guiding value/principle, distinct from practices and outcomes, might help mobilise diverse groups interested in just and sustainable rangeland futures🌍 🔎 Read more: buff.ly/I1LmDgy

🫒 Social-ecological sustainability of olive farming in the Mediterranean: A review of current practices and an agroecological perspective🌽 Agroecology emerges as a promising pathway for systemic transformation of olive farming 👇️ 📖 buff.ly/mUjDwpJ

📖 New paper Public perceptions of anthropogenic and natural sounds: Disparities in soundscapes and corresponding sense of place🏢 🌱 🚗 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/eyG5bD5

🌲 Narratives of ‘home landscapes’ guide stewardship practices among Swedish forest owners "We constructed narratives of how sense of home landscapes and relational values motivate Swedish private forest owners to care for their forests" 📖 Read more ➡️ buff.ly/dWNHS7A

🌊 Which biodiversity futures? Towards coherent design choices for scenarios exploring policy-relevant questions "We present a framework for using scenarios to explore nature-related policy relevant questions" 📖 Read the paper ➡️ buff.ly/g2vDTrc

💧Indigenous knowledge offers valuable insights for water security, yet remains underrepresented in the scientific literature. New review identifies knowledge gaps, key themes and, opportunities for future research. #WaterSecurity #IndigenousKnowledge 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/d4SKZq5

🚨 New research introduces the Personalised Ecology Index, a measure of a person’s direct sensory interactions with nature, to explore the bidirectional relationship between the decline in human interactions with nature and biodiversity decline. 📖 buff.ly/xadeAO7

📖 New review - Bridging ecological restoration and social legitimacy: A systematic review of cultural ecosystem services in inland aquatic ecosystems 🌊 🔎 Read more: buff.ly/JGAScFE

📖 This paper presents an interface that focuses on the relationships between species, people, and place in biodiversity data, eliciting the spatial distinctiveness of living places and bringing local species into view🏔️ ➡️ buff.ly/v8e8vNI

The impact of tropical forests on local climate: Comparing recent research with conservation practitioner information priorities🪲 🌱 🌍 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/a293wCT

🚨 Brand new podcast episode! 🌍️ We discuss the decade long research behind the recently published paper 'Supporting interventions to lessen human-wildlife conflict' with authors Douglas Sheil and Emmanuel Akampurira. 🎙️Soundcloud ➡️ buff.ly/SDcaERW 🎙️Spotify ➡️ buff.ly/CyWHZ42

📖 This review examines psychological theories of how nature contact influences well-being, and notes that such theories implicitly or explicitly shape how nature connection can be defined🌍 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/hF4CSeS

💧 Blue carbon projects are doing much more than just storing carbon! New review of 77 blue carbon projects shows projects to support SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), and SDG 5 (Gender Equality) 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/JxZqEWj

🌳 Community-level institutions play distinct roles in enabling smallholder farmers to adopt land restoration practices. Through a systematic review, Daniel Wiegant and Soumya Balasubramanya synthesize evidence for these roles 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/3FldAAC

🚨 Our July issue is out! 🐺 Including the Special Feature - SHARING LANDSCAPES WITH WILDLIFE ➡️ buff.ly/2sP2NLW With an incredible cover image of Petaca, a wild puma female, photographed by Omar Ohrens ➡️ buff.ly/zMDj3XO 📖 Read the issue ➡️ buff.ly/HBDpxuf

⛰️ Amazigh women co-produce Ait Bouguemez landscapes. Beyond ecology, ethno-habitats are shaped by values, rules and stewardship practices. These highlight women's key role in biocultural conservation 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/PzcpXG1

🔥👥🌳 Digital fire technologies and community networks: Cultivating just sociotechnical practices for living with planetary change @planetarypraxis.bsky.soc 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/tZqjwu1

🦇 Balancing risk and reward—Perceptions of bats and their ecological role in Reunion island 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/WWJstj3

🌏️ Spiritual ecologies in transition: Bonbibi traditions in the Sundarbans once sustained ecological restraint & social cohesion. New study finds market pressures, religious reform & state governance are reconfiguring these moral frameworks 📖 buff.ly/3Fa2BKt

🌏️ Relational structure of illegal wildlife hunting in China: A nationwide hunter–prey network analysis "This network analysis reveals key leverage points for disrupting poaching at a systemic level" 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/BoGtqIn

🐘 China’s recovering elephants create a coexistence paradox: conservation success can increase local burdens. In 796 interviews, tolerance depended less on material loss than on fear, trust, and wildlife interest, showing that coexistence needs more than compensation 📖 buff.ly/F2yd5zf

🌿Biocultural Restoration brings back both nature and cultural diversity to degraded lands. Centred on Indigenous peoples and local communities, it challenges technocratic restoration models. 📖 On the need for biocultural approaches to restoration ➡️ buff.ly/CVXvklo

👥 Relevant, robust and accessible data about people's relationships with nature is needed for environmental governance. A lack of coordination is limiting contributions from social surveys to this evidence base. Six actions can help. 📖 Read here! ➡️ buff.ly/Kll3ucV

🌏️ Restoring nature isn’t enough—we must rethink restoration itself. New study shows how Māori are framed in restoration: sometimes as rightful leaders, other times as wronged victims. These narratives shape what restoration futures become possible. 📖 buff.ly/OIlWzZr

🌿Systemic bio-inequity links poverty to biodiversity and induces a conservation paradox "By gaining the attention of colonists, biodiversity is also related to the neocolonial structures maintaining modern poverty..." 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/EYZymuq

🦅 Noongar Elders share how culturally significant predators, Waalitj (eagle) & Twert (dingo), are spiritual guides and ecosystem protectors. Principles of reciprocity, humility and care offer an alternative to control-based conservation, one rooted in belonging, not dominance. 📖 buff.ly/w4Rugx3

🦉 Negative beliefs about owls shape how people treat them in Nigeria. New research shows that perception strongly predicts conservation support, highlighting the need for culturally grounded strategies for coexistence 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/RjZfwgp