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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Happy to announce @anabuchadas.bsky.social last phd chapter is out! Together with an amazing team, @tkuemmerle.bsky.social, @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social, @profjulietlu.bsky.social, @arnimscheidel.bsky.social & many more - read the paper here: ecologyandsociety.org/vol31/iss2/a...

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Tobias Kuemmerle @tkuemmerle.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Mapping diverse livestock systems across South America’s dry diagonal - new paper out in Global Environmental Change, led by Jamie Burton @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @humboldtuni.bsky.social #SystemShift www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Full house at Marie Pratzer's PHD defense!! She talked about "Conservation in contested landscapes: considering land-use complexity in tropical dry woodlands" - congrats on an amazing dissertation!! #phd #defense #dissertation #congrats #biogeography #huberlin

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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Even though it has been some time since the talk, we did not want to withhold any insights!! At the #ECTE2026, European Conference of Tropical Ecology 2026, @soctropecol.bsky.social, @alfredoromero.bsky.social held an amazing talk as a keynote speaker and enjoyed the event very much!

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Diversity and Distributions @consbiog.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

🐍 Over 35 years of #deforestation have reshaped #snake communities in the South American #Chaco 🌎. Generalist species are expanding, while many specialists lose #habitat, leading to a sharp drop in diversity and growing biotic homogenization. @alfredoromero.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ddi....

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Pablo Orozco-terWengel @orozco-terwengelpa.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Today is our last day of talks at the yearly conference of the Society for Tropical Ecology at #UniPassau. Lots of interesting talks again! @soctropecol.bsky.social Fantastic keynote talk by @alfredoromero.bsky.social on drivers of defaunation.

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People and Nature @peopleandnature.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

🐆 New research - Socio-economic shocks don't just impact human societies, but can also affect large carnivores ➡️ buff.ly/9NLJij4 @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @ranjmurali.bsky.social @tkuemmerle.bsky.social @alfredoromero.bsky.social @arashghoddousi.bsky.social

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Tobias Kuemmerle @tkuemmerle.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

We developed a framework, rooted in social-ecological systems theory, to identify key pathways of how shocks impact large carnivores - and exemplify this framework with three case studies (jaguars, snow leopards, Asiatic cheetah) @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @arashghoddousi.bsky.social

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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The team spent three amazing days in the beautiful, autumnal #Harz during this year’s #labretreat. Workshops, hikes, talks, discussions, cooking sessions, board games, quizzes, laughter, progress and a whole lot of photos -> be ready for some behind-the-scenes-posts and photo dumps! #teambuilding

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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Very happy & proud to share that @alfredoromero.bsky.social will be joining the European Conference of Tropical Ecology 2026 as a Keynote Speaker!! @soctropecol.bsky.social 23 to 27 February 2026, University of Passau! gtoe2026-passau.de/index.html #ECTE2026 #conservation #ecology #speaker

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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Last weekend @alfredoromero.bsky.social and Marie Pratzer were invited to talk at the #LongNightofClimate in Berlin. They had a lot of fun and enjoyed this inspiring, interesting and important event! Film: "Bolivia Burning" look at some more information here: www.langenachtdesklimas.de #LNDK #BTS

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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Happily sharing that @alfredoromero.bsky.social and Marie Pratzer will join the panel of a film screening as part of the Long Night of Climate! 13.09.2025, Kulturfabrik Moabit (Berlin) Hope to see you there!! trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyyg... #LNDK2025, #Klimaschutz, #Nachhaltigkeit

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MariaIsabel Torres @mariaisabeltorres.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

5/ Lamentablemente empezó nuevamente la temporada de incendios en Bolivia. El gobierno ya la ha calificado como una “situación crítica”. El viceministro Juan Carlos Calvimontes señala que se activaron alertas roja y naranja en 66 municipios. es.mongabay.com/2025/08/ince...

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Incendios forestales avanzan en Bolivia: gobierno activa alerta en 66 municipios

Incendios forestales avanzan en Bolivia: gobierno activa alerta en 66 municipios. Seguimos de cerca el caso.

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Alfredo Romero-Muñoz @alfredoromero.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Exciting PhD position to work on large mammals and land use in Europe with the @biogeoberlin.bsky.social lab at @humboldtuni.bsky.social

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Tobias Kuemmerle @tkuemmerle.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Aggressive attacks on science in Argentina by the Milei government (huge and apparently illegal funding cuts, discrediting rhetoric) causing a massive brain drain that will hurt the country for decades to come. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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‘Scienticide’ in Argentina sparks huge protest by researchers

Hundreds of activists, some wearing gas masks, took to the streets to denounce the government for slashing science funding.

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Tobias Kuemmerle @tkuemmerle.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

🐄🐂 Putting landless cattle on the map! 🐄🐂 New paper in Env. Research Letters on mapping cattle intensification from space - across South America's dry diagonal doi.org/10.1088/1748... @erc.europa.eu @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social @pedrofernandez91.bsky.social #SystemShift @biogeoberlin.bsky.social

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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

We traced how soy and beef production in Argentina and Paraguay impact mammal diversity—and who’s driving it. Spoiler: It’s not just exports. Read the paper: shorturl.at/bpPEH @alfredoromero.bsky.social @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social @tkuemmerle.bsky.social @aguiarse86.bsky.social @sei.org

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Tobias Kuemmerle @tkuemmerle.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Understanding the impact of agricultural exports on the Gran #Chaco #biodiversity: new paper out in Global Environmental Change, led by Isabel Carpenter 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.gl... @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @sei.org @alfredoromero.bsky.social @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social @aguiarse86.bsky.social

Soybean shipped out of Paraguay (Photo: XINDE MARINE NEWS).

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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

So happy about more than one hundred participants at our online #workshop on zoom today!! Imogen Schwandner and @alfredoromero.bsky.social talked about using #AI to manage the data of #wildcameras #biogeography #chaco

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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Some impressions of @alfredoromero.bsky.social 's and Imogen Schwandner's field trip to the Chaco. #chaco #wildlife #survey #largecat #bolivia #conservation #biogeography #huberlin

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WWF EU @wwf.eu · 05/05/2025

This week, the EU Parliament is voting to downgrade the protection status of wolves, despite a clear lack of scientific evidence. To do so, it has to open up the Habitats Directive, a 30-year-old law that protects our nature. ✊ We can't let this happen. Keep your #HandsOffNature.

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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Listening to @alfredoromero.bsky.social and Imogen Schwandner's recap of their amazing survey adventure in the Chaco, Bolivia. A perfect way to spend our Friday - have a nice weekend!! #biogeography #chaco #bioconservation #survey #recap #research #humboldtuniversity

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Tobias Kuemmerle @tkuemmerle.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Mapping the functional decline of top predators in the Gran #Chaco – a global deforestation hotspot. New paper led by @alfredoromero.bsky.social just out in Diversity & Distributions 👉https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.70003 @humboldtuni.bsky.social / @biogeoberlin.bsky.social

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Guy Pe'er @guypeer.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Dear President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu & EVP @teresaribera.bsky.social, Scientists are deeply concerned about the gradual rollback of the Green Deal. On behalf of >2000 scientists, please see our Open Letter calling to restore its ambition: zenodo.org/records/1427... Please could you meet us?

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Arash Ghoddousi @arashghoddousi.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Published in Conservation Biology! Effectiveness of protected areas in the #Caucasus Mountains in preventing #rangeland #degradation Using greenness indicators in 52 PAs from 1988-2019 we showed that they’re ineffective in preventing degradation OA: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Tobias Kuemmerle @tkuemmerle.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Doing field work in the Chiquitano Forest in Bolivia (below some pics) for our #ERC project #SystemShift (hu.berlin/SystemShift). We are running a massive camtrap & audio-recording survey - about 20+ landscapes (in Chaco and Chiquitania) with 35 cams + 5 audio recorders each.

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Martin Jung @martinjung.eu · 11/11/2024

Making starter packs seems to be the hot thing and I noticed that we don't have one for conservation scientists (🧪), so here we go go.bsky.app/3CZDnb2 So if you are an active researcher and would like to be added, reply here. Please no journalists or NGOs, there are other starting lists for that ;)

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 26/12/2023

We published 5,000 stories in English, Spanish, Indonesian, Portuguese, Hindi, & French this year, 7.01 million unique visitors/month read them Most popular topics @ the Global English news site? 8/10 were about biodiversity: fish, cats, and herps each featured in 2 of the top features:

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In 2023, Mongabay published about 5,000 stories and more than 1,600 videos across English, Spanish, Indonesian, Portuguese, Hindi, and French. The posts on our websites attracted an average of 7.01 mi...

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Tobias Kuemmerle @tkuemmerle.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

Congratulations to Catalina Munteanu & Mihai Nitra for receiving the Marin Dracea Prize of the Romanian Academy of Sciences for our study on High Conservation Value Forests in #Romania! #OldGrowth 👉 doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

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Mongabay Latam @mongabaylatam.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

🔎 En Bolivia hay un fuerte conflicto entre las cooperativas auríferas y el gobierno luego de que se suspendiera la entrega de autorizaciones para la explotación de oro en áreas protegidas. Mineros cooperativistas piden que se anule esta decisión. ⬇️ es.mongabay.com/2023/12/coop...

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Cooperativas auríferas y gobierno entran en conflicto por acceso de minería a las áreas protegida...

Los permisos para explotación minera en las áreas naturales protegidas de Bolivia han entrado en una nueva etapa. Mediante una resolución emitida en julio de 2023, la Autoridad Jurisdiccional Admin...

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Mongabay Latam @mongabaylatam.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

🇧🇴🔎#INVESTIGACIÓN #ParquesAvasallados Viajamos al Parque Nacional y Área Natural de Manejo Integrado Amboró y recogimos testimonios que señalan que foráneos cultivan coca, han establecido fábricas de cocaína y sacan madera en callapos. Los hallazgos en este especial. es.mongabay.com/2023/11/boli...

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Bolivia: deforestación y narcotráfico arrasan bosque del parque Amboró

En este preciso instante, mientras usted lee este reportaje, en el Parque Nacional Amboró crecen plantaciones ilegales de hoja de coca en parches de bosque que fueron arrasados para ese fin. Quienes ...

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Alfredo Romero-Muñoz @alfredoromero.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Starting my posting here with the not unusual news of the recent and rapidly increasing pressures in Bolivian rich nature. Will try to post nicer news from time to time...

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Tobias Kuemmerle @tkuemmerle.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

International #conservation #funding in #SouthAmerica tends to go to areas with high conservation value, not where threats (deforestation in our case) are high. New paper led by Siyu Qin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social just out in Biological Conservation --> doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

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