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Dr. Helen Kopnina

@helenkopnina.bsky.social
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#Sustainability scholar @northumbriauni.bsky.social #EnvironmentalEducation #SustainableBusiness #Biodiversity #Animals #Climate Wary of polarization, viral slogans & echo chambers scholar.google.nl/citations?user=pE…

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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🌿💸 What does wildlife loss have to do with your weekly shop? Join us at Grainger Market for our interactive 'Nature’s Price Tag' stall! 🛒📊 #biodiversity Funded by @ukri.org with @northumbriauni.bsky.social Uni & @newcastleuni.bsky.social 🏫🤝 📅 22 Oct, 11-3pm | FREE! 🔗 festivalofsocialscience.com
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Festival of Social Science
The Festival of Social Science is an annual celebration of research and knowledge about humans and society.
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🌿💸 What does wildlife loss have to do with your weekly shop? Join us at Grainger Market for our interactive 'Nature’s Price Tag' stall! 🛒📊 #biodiversity Funded by @ukri.org with @northumbriauni.bsky.social Uni & @newcastleuni.bsky.social 🏫🤝 📅 22 Oct, 11-3pm | FREE! 🔗 festivalofsocialscience.com
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🍂 That "messy" yard you're looking at? It’s actually a five-star winter resort for wildlife. Leaving the leaves and letting nature breathe isn't council neglect—it's ecological intelligence. Let's ditch the leaf blowers give hedgehogs a cozy, wild winter! 🦔🍁 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Plastic flowers and mowed lawns: the exploration of everyday unsustainability
In human-controlled environments and in cultivated landscapes, the plants accommodate social, cultural and economic needs. This article will focus on the use of plants for agriculture, urban planni...
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Featuring in Learning as Nature podcast! theregenerativeeducationpodcast.buzzsprout.com
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The Regeneration Lab
Welcome to The Regeneration Lab. The podcast of the Regenerative Thinking research group at the the Mission Zero centre of expertise at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, where we conduct integ...
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Featuring in Learning as Nature podcast! theregenerativeeducationpodcast.buzzsprout.com
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fireside chat alert 🔥 I'm speaking at the online #SustainabilitySummit for #SMEs on 22 Oct, 9:30am BST, hosted by Sustainability Support Service Ltd. Come and talk #SustainableBusiness, #Biodiversity and what #SMEs can do 👉 tinyurl.com/434hzxsc
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Great art on Bluesky @art.feediverse.org · 28/09/2026
Munich-Schwabing with the church of St. Ursula, 1908 #wassilykandinsky #expressionism
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🗑️ What does our rubbish say about us? Our 2nd Garbology Walk from #Newcastle to Ryton marked the completion of our BRANCH (Building Resilience Across Newcastle Communities and Habitats) project, we explored local waste and #Community 🚶‍♂️✨ #Sustainability #Waste www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Delighted to share that FIELD (Fostering Interdisciplinary Education for Life and Diversity) has been funded by UKRI! 🎉🌍 Biodiversity pedagogy, with 19 partners across 13 countries. Huge thanks to all involved 🙏 #Biodiversity #ResearchFunding #GrantFunded #EnvironmentalEducation #ECRchat #HEfunding
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Delighted to share that FIELD (Fostering Interdisciplinary Education for Life and Diversity) has been funded by @ESRC Connect Awards, part of @UKRI_News! 🎉🌍 Biodiversity pedagogy with 19 partners, 13 countries🙏 #BiodiversityEducation #Ecocentrism #ESRC #UKRI #HigherEducation #ConservationScience
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 15/09/2026
Bornean orangutans are in danger❗Fires in Kalimantan are destroying their habitat at alarming rates. These orangutans are also suffering severe health impacts from smoke inhalation 💔 Bornean orangutans are critically endangered. Another reason to #KeepForestsStanding bit.ly/4AdDwB0
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Rescuers scramble to save orangutans as El Niño-boosted fires spread across Borneo
BANJARMASIN, Indonesia -- As a strengthening El Niño fuels wildfires across much of Indonesia, NGO and government conservationists are at work in forests here trying to save an increasing number of orangutans from burning landscapes. “Seven individuals ...
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Following weeks of drought, finally rain - mushroom season, Blackhall Mill.
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
~5,000 scientists from 102 countries have signed the World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: A Third Notice, declaring a #PlanetaryEmergency from #ClimateChange, #BiodiversityLoss, pollution and crossed #PlanetaryBoundaries. Sign here: forms.gle/BAfifGWesmoY...
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Chris @leftychris.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Hard to not feel judged when looking at this photo.
Tawny frogmouth sitting on a 
chain wire fence, looking down the camera with eyes narrowed.
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Eden Rivers Trust @edenriverstrust.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
30 years. One river catchment. Countless achievements. 💙🌊 Join us on 13 Sept for our Celebration Day featuring inspiring talks, field trips, lunch, cake and plenty to celebrate. Free tickets available now! at 🔗https://loom.ly/d5Mx4g8 #Cumbria #NatureRecovery #riverconservation
mage to promote Eden Rivers Trust 30th Anniversary celebration event on 13 September 10am-4pm. Features silhouettes of an otter, mayfly nymph and a butterfly along with photos of people doing conservation work,
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Nicholas D Carter @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Global protein consumption has increased by 1/3 since 1960 More than half of this new growth has come from animal sources, despite plant protein still making up 62% of all protein supply Reversing this trend & being clear on plant protein wins (fibre, planetary health, equal muscle gain) is key
"relative" change in protein supply, showing animal protein growing faster via: https://ourworldindata.org/food-supply

Other references: FAOSTAT & Poore & Nemecek (2018)
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Just discovered that those red things in the rockpools of St Ives are Beadlet Anemones. When the tide goes out, they look like small, soft blobs of dark red jelly stuck to the rocks. When the water covers them, they open up to show many short tentacles.
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
New article in Business Strategy and the Environment: doi.org/10.1002/bse.... Leader-Member Exchange, compliance & sustainability performance in carbon-market governance: a #GlobalSouth perspective, looking at Uganda's #CarbonMarkets #Sustainability #ClimateChange #SustanableBusiness #ESG
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The real butterfly effect… A global study of 1,758 species of butterflies across 105 countries found that nearly 80% of documented range shifts are linked to climate change and extreme weather. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Extensive climate-induced range shifts in butterflies across the globe - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Insects are increasingly pressured by climate change. Here the authors compile global evidence of range shifts in butterflies and call for more co-ordinated efforts in documenting such trends across c...
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
First in our Reece Foundation series: Food Waste, Socioeconomic Inequality, and Household Consumption, a #Garbology study in Newcastle w/ Van Tran, Mark Goddard, Cheng Siew Goh. We sorted bins, not surveys, to see how #FoodWaste differs by income. doi.org/10.1080/00664677.2026.2673519
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What our rubbish reveals: food waste and inequality in Newcastle households
We examined household rubbish across richer and poorer parts of Newcastle to see how income shapes food waste and consumption habits, combining bin analysis with interviews to understand what gets thr...
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
New commentary is out: "Why pronatalism fails the planetary health test." Falling birth rates aren't the crisis, ignoring planetary boundaries is. doi.org/10.3197/whpj... #Pronatalism #PlanetaryHealth #PopulationAndSustainability #ReproductiveRights #EcologicalOvershoot #Biodiversity
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Today was supposed to be my ECCB 26 @society4conbio.bsky.social keynote in Leiden. eccb26leiden.eu/interview-wi... Unfortunately, I am still waiting on my Indefinite Leave to Remain, can't travel until it's decided. Applied in January. Still nothing. Fingers crossed something moves before Thursday.
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Absolute privilege to give a keynote at the "Foundational Issues in #BiodiversityFinance" workshop. Can you put a price on #wetland, #pollinator, or #ecosystem, without either overselling nature's financial "value" or reducing it to a spreadsheet item? philevents.org/event/show/1...
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Michael Price @mikeyprice.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I'm pleased to announce that the Fair Trade Advocacy Office and Newcastle Business School are offering a fully funded PhD entitled "Peak Fair Trade? Reimagining the future of the Fair Trade movement". Happy to discuss the project with potential applicants. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Peak Fair Trade? Reimagining the future of the Fair Trade movement (Ref: RDFC26/SC/NBS/PRICE) at Northumbria University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Peak Fair Trade? Reimagining the future of the Fair Trade movement (Ref: RDFC26/SC/NBS/PRICE) at Northumbria University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Precisely 30 years ago I started working on my PhD dissertation, which later became my first book, East to West Migration, exploring #Migration policy and practice. Presently I seem in the middle of it lnkd.in/eM34B8hE
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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Yolo the baby king vulture has the cutest freckles going on. 🪶 It takes king vultures 5-6 years to go from baby to full color glow-up, and during that time there's a constant transition of in between stages. Its so fun to see him evolve!
A young king vulture with his head resting on a human hand, showing off the pinkish red patch on his neck, covered in black spotting where color is changing from baby back to adult red.
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
When everything is violence, nothing is violence — new paper challenges claim that peer criticism and methodological disagreements constitute "epistemological violence." Robust debate is how science improves. doi.org/10.1111/cobi... #ConservationBiology #AcademicFreedom #ResearchEthics #Pluralism
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When everything is violence, nothing is violence: Response to Koot et al. (2020)
Click on the article title to read more.
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Mobile Labour? Lost keynotes. Frozen fieldwork. Blocked international research. 5 months waiting for a UK residence permit-no travel outside UK. Feels like under #HomeOffice arrest. Reality for thousands academics. Raised it with @cmckinnellmp.bsky.social Now raising it here. #GlobalTalent
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
New paper on extinction accounting & urban biodiversity governance in Hong Kong, out in AAAJ: doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ... #ecocentrism #sustainability #ESG #KunmingMontreal #GBF #30x30 #NaturePositive #KunmingMontreal #sustainability #SustainableBusiness #Rewilding #Biodiversity
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Food Waste, Socioeconomic Inequality, and Household Consumption: A Mixed-Methods Garbology Study in Newcastle upon Tyne www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #sustainability #waste #foodwaste #inequality #consumption #food #poverty
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Food Waste, Socioeconomic Inequality, and Household Consumption: A Mixed-Methods Garbology Study in Newcastle upon Tyne
Food waste represents a defining paradox of contemporary consumption: UK households discard approximately 6.4 million tonnes of food annually, of which 73% is edible, while an estimated 7.5 million...
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
An engaging session organised by the Ouseburn Trust! With colleagues from @newcastleuni.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social @ouseburnfarm.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social discussed #environmental #sustainability initiatives, also BRANCH 🌿project funded by The Reece Foundation
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Business education and its paradoxes: Linking business and biodiversity through critical pedagogy curriculum bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #environmentaleducation #biodiversity #business #managmentlearning #busiensseductaion #UNEP #UNESCO
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<em>British Educational Research Journal</em> | BERA Journal | Wiley Online Library
The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, launched during the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in December 2022, encourages governments, companies and investors to publish data on the...
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
PhD in @fairtradeftao.bsky.social research @northumbriauni.bsky.social . UK/EU nationals only, UK strongly preferred. Strong candidates apply: jobsin.brussels/jobs/fair-tr... @mikeyprice.bsky.social
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Strategic Action Research Doctoral Student – Fair Trade Advocacy Office | Jobs in Brussels
Fair Trade Advocacy Office is hiring a Strategic Action Research Doctoral Student in Brussels. View all details and apply for this job on Jobs in Brussels.
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Impressive launch event of the North East Alliance for Research on Environmental Risks. Great feedback on our BRANCH project (The Reece Foundation) on local #transport, #waste & #sustainability. Hosted by @durham.ac.uk with colleagues from @newcastleuni.bsky.social and @northumbriauni.bsky.social
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Community engagement workshop on the subject of our project BRANCH: Building Resilience Across Newcastle Communities and Habitats, funded by the Reece Foundation and co-organised by Big River Bakery was wonderfully inspiring! Lots of ground-up ideas dealing with garbage and solutions discussed
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The Conversation just published this article: nature is good for business theconversation.com/nature-is-go... Another question is of course how good is business for nature? and how much nature's contribution to people can be reciprocated? Source: ScienceDirect.com share.google/lM8MMWdDViy7...
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Nature is good for business – and we now have numbers to show it
A New Zealand-focused analysis finds businesses in areas with healthier ecosystems tend to generate higher sales and profits, revealing an overlooked green benefit.
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Today's Garbology walk went well!
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Today is #EndangeredSpeciesDay! #Biodiversity urgently needs help. The @IUCNRedList is a barometer of life, documenting the global extinction risk of animals, fungi and plants. It includes over 172,600 species, of which more than 48,600 are threatened with #extinction.
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
What does your bin say about the past and present? Join us Sunday 17 May for a Spoon to Spoon Garbology walk along the Tyne in Newcastle, sharing findings from our Reece Foundation-funded BRANCH-OUT project. Wetherspoons to Wetherspoons. Science never looked so good. www.facebook.com/events/96474...
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I just signed Dame Judi Dench's petition, calling on the urgent restoration of our ancient woodlands. Please sign this important cause and share it: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
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Stand with Judi Dench - Sign the Petition
Join Dame Judi Dench and help save our ancient woodlands. Add your name to the petition and share it with friends and family.
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
What does sustainability look like for communities facing food insecurity, transport poverty, and waste infrastructure failure? The BRANCH project (The Building Resilience Across Newcastle Communities and Habitats) by our research team @NorthumbriaUni discussed results
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
What does #sustainability look like for communities facing #foodinsecurity and #transportpoverty? BRANCH-OUT Building Resilience and Nurturing Community Habitats – Opening Up Transformation project has the answers. May 1: www.eventbrite.com/e/food-waste... #FoodWaste #ForcedCarOwnership #NorthEast
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize was given to Iroro Tanshi 🏆She proved that the most effective conservation happens from the ground up. She’s a brilliant strategist, whose work saved hundreds of the short-tailed roundleaf bats. #GoldmanPrize #Biodiversity #ChangeStartsWhereYouStand
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Does Business Education have a #biodiversity blind spot? Our open access paper in #BERJ argues for #ecopedagogy over SDG-framing, with case studies from three universities. #conservation #HigherEd #BusinessEducation #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1002/berj...
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Seamus Healy: Storm on the Island (Photos Alnwick) We are prepared: we build our houses squat, Sink walls in rock and roof them with good slate. This wizened earth has never troubled us With hay, so, as you see, there are no stacks... that can be lost[...] Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.
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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
This week’s UV copepods! I swear these colours are getting wilder every week. #marineplankton 🦑
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
What if #BusinessEducation is reinforcing the very system driving ecological crisis? This talk at CIIDES explores #Ecopedagogy #Degrowth #Sustainability and why business schools must move beyond “safe” narratives toward confronting #PlanetaryBoundaries www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFyZ...
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HELEN KOPNINA. Conferencia para CIIDES 2026.
YouTube video by CIIDES Universitat d'Alacant
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 27/03/2026
Analysis: UK is ‘halving’ its climate finance for developing countries ✍️ By @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read the new analysis here ➡️ bit.ly/4t91fxL
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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
"Conservationists are trained to notice what most people do not see: a reef that has lost its vibrancy and color, a forest that no longer holds the same birds, a river that carries less life each season.." www.butlernature.com/2026/03/22/t... poignant artcle by @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social
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The cost of caring for a dying world
Earlier this month, Jeremy Hance’s “‘An epidemic of suffering’: Why are conservationists breaking down?” and the follow-up commentary “Emotional and psychological stresses beleaguer conservation profe...
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Wildlife and Countryside Link @wclnews.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Nature = Future 🌍️ Our future depends on nature, it's time to stand up for it. That's why we're supporting @nationaltrust Nature = Future campaign.
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