Just published: The new edition of my newsletter for journalists (and anyone else) interested in biodiversity, the ecological crisis and nature-based solutions to climate change. 🌏🧪 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/nature-bea...

Just published: The new edition of my newsletter for journalists (and anyone else) interested in biodiversity, the ecological crisis and nature-based solutions to climate change. 🌏🧪 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/nature-bea...

Just published: The new edition of my newsletter for journalists (and anyone else) interested in biodiversity, the ecological crisis and nature-based solutions to climate change. 🌏🧪 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/nature-bea...

Have you ever noticed the fig tree in The Odyssey? Without it, Odysseus would never have made it home. In my latest dispatch from Planet Ficus, I explore why Homer chose a wild fig to save his hero and why that choice still has something to teach us today.🧪🌏 open.substack.com/pub/planetfi...

Just published: The new edition of my newsletter for journalists (and anyone else) interested in biodiversity, the ecological crisis and nature-based solutions to climate change. 🌏🧪 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/nature-bea...

I wrote this guide to OECMs (other effective area-based conservation measures) for the Earth Journalism Network but non-journalists may find it useful too. earthjournalism.net/resources/ti... 🧪🌏

Just published: The new edition of my newsletter for journalists (and anyone else) interested in biodiversity, the ecological crisis and nature-based solutions to climate change. 🌏🧪 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/nature-bea...

Just published: The new edition of my newsletter for journalists (and anyone else) interested in biodiversity, the ecological crisis and nature-based solutions to climate change. 🌏🧪 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/nature-bea...

In the highlands of Kenya, when a sacred mugumo fig tree crashes to the ground, its death echoes through both ecology and society. planetficus.substack.com/p/what-happe...

Just published: The new edition of my newsletter for journalists (and anyone else) interested in biodiversity, the ecological crisis and nature-based solutions to climate change. 🌏🧪 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/nature-bea...

Just published: The new edition of my newsletter for journalists (and anyone else) interested in biodiversity, the ecological crisis and nature-based solutions to climate change. 🌏🧪 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/nature-bea...

Just published: The new edition of my newsletter for journalists (and anyone else) interested in biodiversity, the ecological crisis and nature-based solutions to climate change. 🌏🧪 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/nature-bea...

Just published: The new edition of my newsletter for journalists (and anyone else) interested in biodiversity, the ecological crisis and nature-based solutions to climate change. 🌏🧪 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/nature-bea...

On the International Day for Biodiversity, here are five ways fig trees are titans of biodiversity, and a plug for my newsletter devoted to these extraordinary plants. planetficus.substack.com 🧪🌏

Just published: The new edition of my newsletter for journalists (and anyone else) interested in biodiversity, the ecological crisis and nature-based solutions to climate change. 🌏🧪 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/nature-bea...

Just published: The new edition of my newsletter for journalists (and anyone else) interested in biodiversity, the ecological crisis and nature-based solutions to climate change. 🌏🧪 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/nature-bea...

Just published: The new edition of my newsletter for journalists (and anyone else) interested in biodiversity, the ecological crisis and nature-based solutions to climate change. 🌏🧪 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/nature-bea...

When I launched my Planet Ficus newsletter a year ago today, I set out to amaze, inform and inspire readers with stories about what — to my mind — is the most extraordinary group of plants on Earth. Twelve months on, I think that mission is on track. planetficus.substack.com/p/how-fig-tr... 🧪🌏

Just published: The new edition of my newsletter for journalists (and anyone else) interested in biodiversity, the ecological crisis and nature-based solutions to climate change. 🌏🧪 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/nature-bea...

Just published: The new edition of my newsletter for journalists (and anyone else) interested in biodiversity, the ecological crisis and nature-based solutions to climate change. 🌏🧪 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/nature-bea...

Just published: The new edition of my newsletter for journalists (and anyone else) interested in biodiversity, the ecological crisis and nature-based solutions to climate change. 🌏🧪 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/nature-bea...

Jeremy Quirós-Navarro, Tim Chamberlain and Deiver Espinoza did this research without any funding or institutional support. planetficus.substack.com/p/seventeen-... 🧪🌏 All images: Tropical Forest Ecology Project (www.timctree.co.uk/tropical-for...)

The researchers suggest that Ficus tuerckheimii “may serve as a keystone structure in the canopy, supporting interaction and communication among arboreal mammals”. Read more here: planetficus.substack.com/p/seventeen-... 🌏🧪

What's remarkable is that the researchers climbed 169 trees of 29 species in three of Costa Rica’s mountain ranges. They found latrines only in the strangler fig (Ficus tuerckheimii) — and in 11 of the 15 individuals of that species that they climbed. planetficus.substack.com/p/seventeen-... 🌏🧪

That spot — where the union of the figs main branches formed a flat platform — was a multi-species latrine. Never before has such a latrine been reported. This discovery changes our understanding of life in the canopy. planetficus.substack.com/p/seventeen-...

Over two months, motion-triggered cameras recorded 17 mammal species visiting the exact same spot, 30m above the ground on a strangler fig in a Costa Rican cloud forest. planetficus.substack.com/p/seventeen-...

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In my latest dispatch from Planet Ficus, I tell a story of conflict and coexistence — and claims of religiously motivated ecocide.🌏

Just published: The new edition of my newsletter for journalists (and anyone else) interested in biodiversity, the ecological crisis and nature-based solutions to climate change. 🌏🧪 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/nature-bea...