Conservation biologist @idiv/UFZ. Focus on EU's Common Agricultural Policy & Nature Restoration Regulation. Agri EU Projects Agroecology-TRANSECT, LAFERIA. Butterflies & citizen science projects: VielFalterGarten, UNP+, BMS-IL. Father of 2. BUND, S4F, SCB
How do we scale up & scale out agroecology across Europe? Researchers, farmers, policymakers & practitioners tackled that question at @agtransect.bsky.social final event in Brussels Full recordings are available, including discussions on: • lessons from 11 Innovation Hubs 👉 doi.org/10.1007/s116...
Comprehensive article about the Flamingo Revolution in #Albania published by @earthislandjournal.bsky.social My contribution with focus on the impact of Vlora airport for the eventual alteration & destruction of #Vjosa #Narta ecosystem. @euronatur.bsky.social www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...
How a Trump Family-Tied Luxury Resort Sparked Albania’s “Flamingo Revolution”What started as a fight to protect an ecologically sensitive coastal area has turned into the largest civil protest in the country’s recent history.www.earthisland.org
Monday is the deadline for public comment! The Heritage Foundation has been mobilizing its members to leave comments in favor of the rule change, so every unique comment matters (don’t use a form letter or copy/paste—similar comments are batched and treated as one).
Bethany BrookshireThere's an OMB rule change that would require political oversight of scientific grants, and could pull any that don't "reflect presidential priorities" Another country has tried this before! It was the USSR and it was called Lysenkoism. By @thsaey.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...
"We know how to mourn grandparents, spouses, friends, and neighbors, but we do not know how to mourn disappearing species, damaged rivers, altered coastlines, democratic institutions, or the healthy futures we expected to inherit." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We know how to mourn other humans – but what about ecological grief?In Iceland, people commemorated its first glacier formally declared lost to climate change. Western culture needs more of these ritualswww.theguardian.com
Congratulations @zakisaati.bsky.social with this amazing paper! Some of those samples were ours from Belgium 🇧🇪
Zaki Saati-SantamaríaOur paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social 🎉 We analyzed 1,921 soils from 33 countries to show how climate and agriculture shape soil microbiomes. Pesticides & fertilizers reshape microbial communities and ecological networks despite higher diversity in agricultural soils. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
My talk at @scbeurope.bsky.social Only 10-15% of the EU's cattle herd is needed to graze every biodiversity-rich field there is. Most cattle never set hoof on pasture. They're fed grain, packed onto fertilized monocultures. The solution isn't more grazing. It's fewer animals, better raised.
My talk at @scbeurope.bsky.social - 2 Put every EU cow on pasture and you'd need more land, more emissions, more imported crops from elsewhere. Too many animals for the land we have. The fix isn't more grazing — it's less and better. #Agroecology #LivestockStrategy
Ugandan farmers have filed a lawsuit in London against TotalEnergies' EACOP project. They warn that the 1,443 km (897-mile) oil pipeline threatens 16 protected areas, including vital water sources for 40 million people, and note that more than 100,000 residents have already faced displacement.
Ugandan farmers sue TotalEnergies’ oil pipeline project in UK courtFour Ugandan farmers have filed a lawsuit before the High Court in London, U.K., against a contentious oil pipeline under construction in Uganda and Tanzania, human rights group Avaaz announced at a…mongabay.cc
Die EU plant ein Geschenk für Pestizidkonzerne: Giftige Pestizide könnten für immer zugelassen werden – ohne Sicherheitsprüfung. Ja, für immer. Ja, das passiert wirklich. Jetzt unterschreiben um den Plan aufzuhalten: action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-12...
Schützt unser Essen vor giftigen PestizidenTeile den Appell und hilf mit, die Wirkung dieser Kampagne zu vervielfachen: Schützt unser Essen vor giftigen Pestizidenaction.wemove.eu
full text joint white paper "Towards pollinator stewardship in all policies: Policy incoherence in the EU is a major barrier to pollinator restoration" here (38 page pdf): zenodo.org/records/2071... Doi: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Towards pollinator stewardship in all policies: Policy incoherence in the EU is a major barrier to pollinator restorationJoint White Paper from Horizon Europe-funded projects Butterfly, VALOR, PollinERA, WildPosh, AGRI4POL, ProPollSoil, RestPoll, and Safeguard Executive summary Pollinators are critical for Europe’s resi...zenodo.orgJoint White Paper @butterfly-project.bsky.social @valor-project.eu @pollinera-horizon.eu @wildposh.eu @agri4pol.eu #ProPollSoil @restpoll.bsky.social @safeguard-pollinators.eu Towards pollinator stewardship in all policies Media coverage in 10 languages butterfly-europe.eu/media-covera...
A study concluded that the uninhibited pumping of groundwater by farmers, cities and corporations around the world now accounts for 68% of the total loss of fresh water at the latitudes where most people live. (Published July 2025)
“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global ThreatA new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.www.propublica.org
🚨New paper🚨 For decades, it was widely assumed tropical species would be hit hardest by #ClimateChange. Turns out climate-related local #extinctions are already more frequent among temperate species. Read our new study 🧵 @natclimate.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415... #BiodiversityLoss #SciSky
Temperate local extinctions from climate change are outpacing tropical extinctions - Nature Climate ChangeThe authors analyse global-scale resurvey data for 5,151 species to reveal the sensitivity of tropical versus temperate species to climate change. They show significantly higher frequencies of local e...doi.org
The NASA climate spiral visualization presents monthly global temperature anomalies, deviations from a long term global average. Original post
Check out the publication in @natecoevo.nature.com here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #insects #landuse #climate #timeseries #lepidoptera #coleoptera @agroscope.bsky.social @wslresearch.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social @unibas.ch @usyseth.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social
Ninety-year trends reveal sharpest insect declines in the mid-twentieth century - Nature Ecology & EvolutionAssessing the magnitude and drivers of recent biodiversity losses requires informative, long-term baseline data. Here the authors reconstruct the temporal trajectories of butterflies and saproxylic be...www.nature.comPollinators are disappearing across Europe. A new wave of youth-led action is pushing back. iucn.org/news/202605/...
Pollinators are disappearing across Europe. A new wave of youth-led action is pushing back.New cohort of projects backs youth-led solutions, from urban habitats to DNA-based monitoringiucn.org
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THREAD: I’m going to share this thread here to clearly state my perspective on electric vehicles, car dependency and better cities, for all those who frequently ask me about it, including media, elected leaders and many others. Here goes. Please share it frequently if you think it will help. 🧵#EVS
🎥 Missed our webinar on measuring the real impact of agroecology? The recording is now available 👇 youtu.be/GODjabPw0zA 🌱 Monitoring environmental, socio-economic & climate indicators 🔍 Cross-hub analysis reveals synergies, trade-offs & patterns 📝 Early STREAM-T insights and tool improvements
WEBINAR: Monitoring the performance of Agroecology: Insights from the STREAM-T toolYouTube video by Agroecology-TRANSECTyoutu.beSurvivors of the deadly late-2025 Sumatra floods are suing the Indonesian government. The lawsuit argues that decades of deforestation and weak enforcement turned a natural event into a catastrophic ecological disaster, and demands environmental audits and forest restoration. mongabay.cc/qy5EJz
Survivors sue Indonesian government over response to catastrophic Sumatra floodsJAKARTA — A group of Indonesian citizens affected by the late-2025 Sumatra floods and landslides have filed a lawsuit with a court in Jakarta in an effort to hold the Indonesian government…mongabay.cc