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Myself and a number of Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellows recently wrote about how massive cuts and lay-offs in federal science in Canada are super concerning due to their lack of clear strategy or transparency. Thinking of the govt scientists who have lost their jobs www.hilltimes.com/2026/05/28/c...

Canada’s nature strategy needs science and transparency, not spending cuts - The Hill TimesProtecting biodiversity requires more than targets on paper. It depends on sustained investment in three pillars of scientific capacity: long-term monitoring, scientific expertise and recovery infrast...www.hilltimes.com

Getting understudied taxonomic groups the conservation attention they need can be difficult. Luckily, our new paper shows that community occupancy modelling can reconstruct distribution trends for these species, and help with species-at-risk listing decisions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Multi-species modelling to improve conservation decision-making for understudied taxonomic groupsThe rapid and ongoing loss of global biodiversity has led to more species in need of legal protection, and an increasing emphasis on evaluating extinc…www.sciencedirect.com

"...part of the “reorganization” announced last week involved the ceasing of most of the experimental-forest research and closure of the research stations in the U.S.F.S. network. These are the sites of experiments that can reach back for decades" www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Trump Guts the Forest Service Ahead of Wildfire SeasonAhead of what is predicted to be a dangerous wildfire season, the Trump Administration gutted the Forest Service by closing its regional headquarters along with most research facilities and experimental forests.www.newyorker.com

This makes me so sad, how something as beneficial as a wildlife crossing becomes polarized in this day.

How the world's largest wildlife crossing became the target of right-wing hateSouthern California's landmark $114 million wildlife crossing is almost complete.www.sfgate.com