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Monica Pons Hernandez

@monicapons.bsky.social
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Ph.D. • MSCA SEAS Postdoctoral Research Fellow UiB • IUU Fishing and Wildlife Trafficking • Green Criminology, Crimes of the Powerful, Qualitative Methods

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Monica Pons Hernandez @monicapons.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
My first book “Glass Eel Trafficking: A green cultural criminology perspective” is now out! Download it for free here: doi.org/10.4324/9781...
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Estibaliz Díaz @estidiaz.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
📰 Hoy salgo el semanal de @elpais.com “Sean cuales sean las causas del declive de la anguila, la cuestión es si existe algún nivel de pesquería que sea sostenible y la respuesta es que no” !Acercaos al kiosko! @azti.bsky.social @elpaiscyt.bsky.social shorturl.at/BykyC
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Edu Robayna @edurobayna.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Tras lo ocurrido esta semana, he querido hacer un repaso a las advertencias de la comunidad científica sobre el declive de la anguila. Desde los 80 con los primeros avisos, y desde 1999 con recomendaciones claras de frenar su pesca.
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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Hola, @miteco.gob.es Una duda ¿De dónde sale la necesidad de acatar las decisiones de la Comisión Estatal sobre listados de protección? La ley 42/2007 define la Comisión como órgano consultivo ¿Qué impide legalmente a MITECO ejercer su competencia sobre el contenido de lespre y catálogo?
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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
El negacionismo científico que lleva a no proteger la anguila acaba con un antivacumas desquiciado de ministro de sanidad. Y la cosa no tiene ninguna gracia España seguirá pescando anguilas hasta su extinción @es.theconversation.com @ebdonana.bsky.social theconversation.com/espana-segui...
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España seguirá pescando anguilas hasta su extinción
El bloqueo de la protección de la anguila europea en España por parte de las comunidades autónomas, materializado este martes, es un triste ejemplo de la influencia del negacionismo científico.
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Edu Robayna @edurobayna.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Fracasa el nuevo intento de prohibir la pesca de la anguila y la angula ante la negativa de las comunidades autónomas, que quieren MÁS estudios e informes. climatica.coop/fracasa-nuev...
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Fracasa el nuevo intento de prohibir la pesca de la anguila y la angula ante la negativa de las comunidades autónomas - Climática, el medio especializado en clima y biodiversidad
La anguila europea y su alevín, la angula, no entrarán en el Catálogo Español de Especies Amenazadas como pretendía el Ministerio de Sara Aagesen. La comunidad científica lleva décadas reclamando fren...
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Edu Robayna @edurobayna.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
@estidiaz.bsky.social, una de las mayores experta del mundo en la anguila y presidenta del grupo de trabajo que aconseja a la Comisión Europea: «¿Existe hoy en día una pesquería sostenible de la anguila? La respuesta es que no» Entrevista en @climatica.coop. climatica.coop/estibaliz-di...
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Estíbaliz Díaz: "¿Existe hoy en día una pesquería sostenible de la anguila? La respuesta es que no" - Climática, el medio especializado en clima y biodiversidad
La presidenta del grupo de trabajo de la anguila en el ICES analiza la situación de la especie y las medidas para evitar que se extinga.
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CEDAT @cedaturv.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
🏅🎓 La @urv.cat ha concedit els premis extraordinaris de doctorat, reconeixen les tesis doctorals amb el més alt nivell de qualitat. ✨ Entre les tesis guardonades hi ha la recerca de la Dra. Mònica Pons, centrada en el tràfic de l’anguila europea des d’una perspectiva de criminologia verda.
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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Movimiento importantísimo de @miteco.gob.es Gracias Ánimo A ver si, por fin y de una vez, podemos proteger a la anguila Para que no haya confusión: MITECO ya tiene el dictamen (claro, demoledor) del comité científico. NO es un asunto que trate solo con gentes de las cocinas
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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Error Consumir o no una especie que se está extinguiendo no debe depender de las conciencias. Hay que prohibir Mientras no se haga, quienes no tenemos capacidad de decidir apelaremos a las conciencias. Pero las administraciones deben actuar y cambiar cosas www.elcorreo.com/bizkaia/vice...
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
📣 3 post doc roles on GreenFrontier @erc.europa.eu project - fantastic opportunities to work on an exciting project on socio-ecological relations in Italy, Spain & Poland. And best of all, a chance to work with @georgeiorda.bsky.social as team lead #PoliticalEcology #Conservation ⬇️
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Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Details on the position with Spanish are here www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...
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Postdoc GreenFrontier - Politics of Conservation and Unequal Ecological Exchange in European Peripheries' - the case of Spain
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Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers! Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025 Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills! Please share widely!
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Monica Pons Hernandez @monicapons.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
📣Publication alert! “Plastic waste trafficking in Spain: examining the actors, routes, and crimes involved” Available OA here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Plastic waste trafficking in Spain: examining the actors, routes, and crimes involved - Trends in Organized Crime
The management of plastic waste represents a significant global environmental challenge due to excessive reliance on plastics and the limitations of recycling. The inability of countries and cities to...
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Monica Pons Hernandez @monicapons.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I am thilled I got to contribute to this story! A must read by @alexandratalty.bsky.social !!
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Monica Pons Hernandez @monicapons.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
🍂 Just like autumn, the new issue of the GREEN Working Group newsletter has arrived! 🍁 This edition is packed with updates and insights! Whether you're deep into #greencriminology or just curious about the latest developments, this issue has something for you. 🔗 www.uu.nl/en/research/...
GREEN Newsletter 2(2)
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Monica Pons Hernandez @monicapons.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Happy to share that a chapter I wrote with Avi Brisman is out! Here we challenge the conventional North-South narrative in wildlife trafficking research by employing the idea of “internal Souths” within affluent countries. Read the full chapter here: link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
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“Internal Souths” in the Global North
Much of the research on wildlife trafficking often centres on countries in the Global South, which are frequently rich in biodiversity. Such research frames these countries as the primary sources of t...
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Ed Gibney @edgibney.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Have they not seen Attenborough’s latest documentary?? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules
Defra says blanket ban on ‘destructive’ fishing practice disproportionate as MPs urge minister to reconsider
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Working on a report on aquaculture, focused on salmon farming. Study frames this, rightly, as "food crime", which reveals "how practices that are presented as ‘sustainable’ or ‘green’ can entail systemic environmental & social injustices" @theferret.scot link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The Paradox of Saving Fish by Eating them: Food Crime at the Intersection of Green Criminology and Political Ecology - European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research
Aquaculture is framed as a key contributor to global food security and sustainable food production. Yet, in its industrial form, it involves several harmful practices that negatively impact food secur...
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Really important article examining #harms from @monicapons.bsky.social & @guillemrubio.bsky.social comparing #AtlanticSalmon & #EuropeanEel in #Aquaculture. The narrative of ecological sustainability & reduced pressure on ‘wild’ fish needs a fundamental rethink #PoliticalEcology #GreenCriminology ⬇️
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Ed Gibney @edgibney.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Love the abstract of this paper. Congratulations, Monica!
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Monica Pons Hernandez @monicapons.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
"The Paradox of Saving Fish by Eating Them: Food Crime at the Intersection of Green Criminology and Political Ecology" is out! I’m thrilled I got to work with the lovely @guillemrubio.bsky.social—I genuinely enjoyed and had fun working on the manuscript together 🧡 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The Paradox of Saving Fish by Eating them: Food Crime at the Intersection of Green Criminology and Political Ecology - European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research
Aquaculture is framed as a key contributor to global food security and sustainable food production. Yet, in its industrial form, it involves several harmful practices that negatively impact food secur...
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
1/ 📄New paper! Alison Hutchinson @georgeiorda.bsky.social Teresa Lappe-Osthege & myself have developed a new harms-based #PoliticalEcology as a way of understanding the #WildlifeTrade published in @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social ⬇️ beastlybusiness.org/2025/07/23/n...
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New paper on harms-based political ecology - Beastly Business
Our team members Alison Hutchinson, Rosaleen Duffy, George Iordachescu and Teresa Lappe-Osthege developed an idea of bringing together debates on harms from green criminology with political ecology co...
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Monica Pons Hernandez @monicapons.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Join us in Athens for this year’s GREEN Working Group Pre-ESC event "Environmental crime, policing & social control"🌎
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Excellent piece on #GlassEel trade in @mongabay.com - and as ever @monicapons.bsky.social is absolutely spot on. Eel consumption always relies on wild caught fish, & the valuable trade attracts criminal networks #IWT #WildlifeTrade #EuropeanEel #EnvironmentalCrime
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Monica Pons Hernandez @monicapons.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I recently contributed to a Mongabay article on the illegal glass eel trade—a critical issue for environmental crime research. Thank you, Keith Anthony Fabro, for giving me the chance to share insights on this topic and engaging with my work. 📖 Read it here:  news.mongabay.com/2025/06/glas...
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Glass eel smuggling booms despite bans, leaving species on the brink
Tiny, translucent and no longer than a finger, juvenile European eels, also known as glass eels, might not look like much. But demand for these slippery creatures, particularly in East Asia, has made ...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I've just watched Attenborough's Oceans film. It's excellent. But my overwhelming feeling is "at last!" I've been waiting, and fruitlessly lobbying, for a film like this for 40 years. But the institutional cowardice of the broadcasters has stymied such projects, until now.
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Guillem Rubio-Ramon @guillemrubio.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
My first paper from my PhD is out! In it, I argue that viewing pigs as both resources (that feed) and as more-than-resources (to be fed) is crucial for understanding how nonhuman animals make nations and how, in turn, nations make nonhuman animals. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Animals that feed nations and nations that feed animals: industrially farmed pigs as nation-building resources in Catalonia
This paper examines industrially farmed pigs in Catalonia, a stateless nation within Spain and a major pig meat producer, to expand existing understan…
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Monica Pons Hernandez @monicapons.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Norway rules out fish farm ban despite ‘existential threat’ to wild salmon www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Norway rules out fish farm ban despite ‘existential threat’ to wild salmon
Open-net farms to continue despite numbers of wild fish halving as minister looks for ‘acceptable’ pollution levels
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Donna Yates @profdonnayates.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Marc Balcells, criminólogo: “Los ladrones de tumbas trabajan y por la noche van a excavar” www.lavanguardia.com/vida/2025030...
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Marc Balcells, criminólogo: “Los ladrones de tumbas trabajan y por la noche van a excavar”
Jan Téllez Asensio Barcelona, 9 mar (EFE).- Tras una investigación sobre el tráfico de bienes arqueológicos italianos, el criminólogo Marc Balcells narra en un libro quié...
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Monica Pons Hernandez @monicapons.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Exciting news! I’ve been awarded the Extraordinary PhD Award by URV for my thesis on “Wildlife trafficking, speciesism & the European eel”. Grateful to my mentors, colleagues & loved ones for the support! Excited to continue researching marine wildlife harm at UiB! 🐋✨
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Monica Pons Hernandez @monicapons.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Excited to contribute to The Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Crime, with an entry on IUU Fishing! 🌊 A huge thanks to the editor, Prof. Rob White, for leading this important project. I’m thrilled to be part of this work and to share the space with amazing senior and early-career scholars.
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Monica Pons Hernandez @monicapons.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Excited to start my MSCA #SEAS Postdoctoral Fellowship at the @unibergen.bsky.social! Looking forward to new research and collaborations in this inspiring environment!
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Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Sweet moment of celebration at @w-u-r.bsky.social as both my dear friend Emmanuel Adu-Ampong and I are launching our #ERC Starting Grant projects! Keep an eye out for #GreenFrontier & #Frictions research!
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Monica Pons Hernandez @monicapons.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
I'm thrilled to share that the paper I coauthored with the brilliant Dr Gohar Petrossian is now available in Marine Policy! Read the full paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X24005694
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Using crime script analysis to unveil illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing of European eels
The exploitation of European eels, driven by the global demand for eel meat, is contributing significantly to the declining populations of the species…
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Update from the Beastly Business project: A brand new paper on demand for #EuropeanEel as a driver of declines. A fantastic read by Ali Hutchinson, @monicapons.bsky.social & Aitor Ibanez Alonso beastlybusiness.org/2024/12/10/n...
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New paper on demand as a driver of eel decline - Beastly Business
Dr Alison Hutchinson has published a new paper in International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, with colleagues Dr Monica Pons Hernandez and Aitor Ibáñez Alonso on demand for the Euro...
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Monica Pons Hernandez @monicapons.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Yesterday I had the pleasure of going back to the #ArrandeMar program of Tarragona Radio to talk about my research on the illegal trade in European eel. Many thanks to Joan Ramón Mendo and Marina Perez for inviting me! I had a great time!
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
welcome old Twitter friends and new Bluesky friends 😀 This is a chance for me to shamelessly promote the Beastly Business project, which brings together #PoliticalEcology & #GreenCriminology to examine #IWT in European species. beastlybusiness.org
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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
New book chapter now out. Co-authored with Angus Nurse, we argue, from a nonhuman #animalvictimology perspective, that horseracing is a form of regulated violence. It is in Hunnicutt, @richardtwine.bsky.social & Mentor: Violence in the Animal Industrial Complex tinyurl.com/4s6xm9af #criminology
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Violence and Harm in the Animal Industrial Complex: Human-Animal Entanglements
This book grapples with multispecies violent exploitations embedded in corridors of power within the animal-industrial complex (A-IC). The A-IC is a useful framework for understanding how exploitative...
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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
BSC Green #Criminology Network webinar series. Next event on Wed 27 November 13:00-14:00 GMT. Stacy Banwell will be presenting an intersectional analysis of the relationship between #climate change and atrocity crimes. Register for free www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/british-so...
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British Society of Criminology Green Criminology Network Webinar
Join our November 2024 virtual gathering of the British Society of Criminology Green Criminology Network on animal ecocide
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