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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We have three excellent speakers who will cover existing research and knowledge gaps regarding working conditions, worker organization and governance, as well as the practicalities of recruiting, retaining and training workers across South Asia, Eastern and Southern Africa and the UK

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

To date, research has largely neglected to systematically examine the role of labour in conservation despite its central importance to day-to-day operations, to rural livelihoods and wellbeing in local communities, to conservation conflicts and project failures in the global north and global south

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Free BES webinar on The Labour of Conservation! 🕛12:00-13:30 📅5 October (BST/UTC+1) Hear how we understand the human work of nature conservation, the power dynamics driving labour regimes, and the implications for social and conservation outcomes www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/the-... 🌍

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Ecology Webinar | The Labour of Conservation 2026 | BES

Join this ecology webinar on conservation labour, power dynamics and inequities with expert speakers and panel discussion. Register free today.

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Come to the panel "Beyond the Usual Suspects: The Expanding Cast of Conservation Actors" to discuss new, emerging and overlooked actors in conservation from zoos, to domestic gardeners and even English Premier League clubs! pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/programme/#17523

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I'm presenting at my first @pollenetwork.bsky.social conference! Zoos are influential but overlooked in-situ conservation actors. By working ex- and in-situ, is there a risk they shape landscapes to look like exhibits, rather than the other way around? Session 10, July 2, 16:30–18:30 #POLLEN2026

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Tommy's Outdoors @tommysoutdoors.com · 31/03/2026

Who are the people doing the actual work of conservation? How many of them are there and what are their working conditions? And whose labour remains invisible in the process? I think this episode is eye-opening on an often neglected aspect of conservation. 🌍🦤🧪 ➡️ pod.fo/e/3dd89f

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

It was great to get the opportunity to really get into the weeds on who does the work of conservation, what kind of work is involved, what the working conditions are like, and what all this means for social and ecological outcomes Huge thanks to @tommysoutdoors.com for having us!

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I was thrilled to appear on the Conservation and Science podcast recently discussing the CONLAB project! If you work in conservation in any capacity and would like to contribute to this research, please do complete our survey, linked on the podcast webpage 🌍🧪 tommysoutdoors.com/2026/03/31/2...

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224: Conservation Labour with Anwesha Dutta and Nick Harvey Sky

Working in conservation? Take the survey➡️ CONLAB survey Who are the people doing the actual work of conservation? How many of them are there and what are their working conditions? And whose labour…

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SHNH @sochistnathist.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

🚨Call for entries!🚨 We're looking for the best original, unpublished essay in the history of natural history from undergraduate & postgraduate students worldwide. 🥇£300, publication in Archives of Natural History 📅Friday 15 August Find out eligibility & how to apply 👇🏻 shnh.org.uk/awards-honou...

A deep green background with white lettering that reads "WT Stearn Essay Prize" surrounded by a old natural history illustration of a ring-tailed lemur and a yellow bird.

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Please do circulate the survey among colleagues, collaborators or anyone else who may be interested! They survey takes around 20 minutes, does not ask for your name, and is available in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French. www.cmi.no/projects/292...

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Conservation Labor: A New Frontier in Labor Theory and Conservation Science (CONLAB)

There is a rapidly developing literature on the 'human dimensions' of conservation, including critical scholarship and appli...

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I had to miss #ICCB2025 this year, but attendees may be interested in our survey of global conservation labour. We need respondents who work in conservation in any capacity, anywhere in the world 🌍 The QR code on the poster or the link in the reply will take you to a page with full information

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

If you spend time in Bymarka #Trondheim 🌳, we need you! One Landscape, Many Landscapes is an art project looking for people to draw their versions of the forest. Absolutely anyone can get involved! Find out how ⬇️ #nature #wildlife #landscape www.nickharveyconservation.co.uk

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Hvis du tilbringer tid i Bymarka #Trondheim 🌳, trenger vi deg! Étt landskap, mange landskap er et kunstprosjekt som leter etter folk som vil tegne sine egne versjoner av skogen. Absolutt alle kan være med! Finn ut hvordan ⬇️ #nature #wildlife #landscape www.nickharveyconservation.co.uk

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Hvis du tilbringer tid i Bymarka Trondheim 🌳, trenger vi deg! Étt landskap, mange landskap er et kunstprosjekt som leter etter folk som vil tegne sine egne versjoner av skogen. Absolutt alle kan være med! Finn ut hvordan ⬇️ #nature #wildlife #landscape www.nickharveyconservation.co.uk

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

If you spend time in #Bymarka Trondheim 🌳, we need you! One Landscape, Many Landscapes is an art project looking for people to draw their versions of the forest. Absolutely anyone can get involved! Find out how ⬇️ #nature #wildlife #landscape www.nickharveyconservation.co.uk

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 08/04/2025

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

The mission of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is to work with others to “conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people.”

The Department of the Interior is excited about the potential of “de-extinction” technology and how it may serve broader purposes beyond the recovery of lost species, including strengthening biodiversity protection efforts and helping endangered or at-risk species.

The Endangered Species List has become like the Hotel California: once a species enters, they never leave. In fact, 97 percent of species that are added to the endangered list remain there. This is because the status quo is focused on regulation more than innovation.

It’s time to fundamentally change how we think about species conservation. Going forward, we must celebrate removals from the endangered list - not additions. The only thing we’d like to see go extinct is the need for an endangered species list to exist. We need to continue improving recovery efforts to make that a reality, and the marvel of “de-extinction” technology can help forge a future where populations are never at risk.

Since the dawn of our nation, it has been innovation – not regulation – that has spawned American greatness. The revival of the Dire Wolf heralds the advent of a thrilling new era of scientific wonder, showcasing how the concept of “de-extinction” can serve as a bedrock for modern species conservation.

The Dire Wolf revival carries profound cultural significance as it embodies strength and courage that is deeply encoded within the DNA of American identity and tribal heritage.

Breakthroughs of this nature will inspire leading minds and future generations of innovators to chase the impossible, capture it, and unleash its potential!

The Department of the Interior looks forward to a vibrant future full of innovation that advances core missions such as wildlife conservation.

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Interested in NbS and environmental justice?My excellent PI is recruiting a PhD candidate for the project: Financing Transformative Nature-based Solutions for Equitable and just Sustainability Solutions (FITNESS) More details including candidate requirements ⬇️ 🌍 publuu.com/flip-book/79...

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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 30/01/2025

Nature is not a blocker to growth. The UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves has claimed that 'The balance has gone too far in the direction of always protecting every bat and every newt.' But how can this statement be true when the UK is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world?🌍

A thriving natural world is the foundation of economic growth and vital for health and wellbeing. Language that pits these against each other is unhelpful and deeply concerning.

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Dr Christian Reynolds @sartorialfoodie.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

🚨 We're hiring! Join us as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Food Policy, City St Georges . Lead impactful research on healthy, sustainable diets. Apply by 19th Feb 2025. Salary: £42,632 - £60,321. More info: www.city.ac.uk/about/jobs/a... #ResearchJobs #FoodPolicy #Health

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

It was wonderful to spend a few hours through Christmas and the new year with this! I can heartily recommend it to anyone #naturewriting

Cover of a book by Laurie Lee called ‘Village Christmas And Other Notes on the English Year’. The cover has an image of children playing on sleds on a snow covered lane

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I can confirm that it is difficult, but not impossible, to wade through snow with a camera and not wake up the baby strapped to your chest.

The top of a baby's head in a had, carried in a baby carrier

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Greenfinch (Chloris chloris) A group of greenfinch strip the last of the berries from thin branches, bowing low like courtiers to pluck them from their perch🌿

Black branhces sillhoutted against a cloudy sky, a bird eats berries at the bottom right

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

A red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) leaps stops to nibble on the cones of a bare larch. It turns one over in its dextrous paws, extracts the seeds, drops it almost absently then moves on to the next. A magpie (Pica pica), not dextrous enough or too lazy to open cones itself, waits for an opening 🌿

A red squirrel in a larch tree, surrounded by brown branches

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Sunlight smearing itself through trees from just above the horizon.

The sun low above the horizon, shining through trees. Cathedral on the rith and a black fence inteh foreground

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

A wisp of cloud across a watery moon.

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Silhouettes appears as frozen spikes of dead vegetation against snow and bare twigs across grey skies.

Dead spikes of a plant sticking out from deep snow

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

The air is so cold that the river steams like it is boiling. Steel grey water, grey concrete bridge, grey snow. People bring colour, with their painted wooden houses and the waterproof houses of those who brave the cold for a walk or a run.

River, steaming in the cold. Grey columns supporting a bridge at the top

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

The snow textures the world, it crunches, squelches, rasps, cracks, thuds and rustles. It reveals the rhythms of the city, as it reveals the habits of animals. SCars are privileged over people as piles block paths and cut-throughs that are open the rest of the year, sacrificed for clear car parks.

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Week 2 - January 6th-12th. It is a week of textures and silhouettes rather than movement. Nature presents itself in monotones #naturephotography

A snowy landscape and bare trees under a grey sky

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Of course this is supposed to be hooded crow, not hood crow!

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Fieldfare pluck berries from those street trees that have held on to them through the months since the long-forgotten autumn. The world seems to wait for the thaw, it will be a while yet.

A fieldfare eating berries, perched on a thin branch

A fieldfar perched on a branch, with fairy lights in the foreground

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

In the marina, a raft of eider float around searching for something unknown to me. Common eider (Somateria mollissima)

A group of eider in a marina at the bottom, separated from the fjord by a harbour wall, with a island with buildings on in the background, with a snow-covered hill behind that

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Nature is generally muffled and in waiting. The trees bare, the grass covered. The only immediately apparent sign of life is the birds. Hooded crows hoarsely croak in the trees and groups of sparrows and tits flock to those gardens with feeders hanging in the freezing air. Hood crow (Corvus cornix)

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

The signs of summer that are not packed away for the winter sit idle, waiting for the return of the warmth.

Diving boards, covered in snow with steps leading down to the fjord

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

On a cold but sunny Sunday young and old flocked to forest tracks and trails, with only toddlers and foreigners such as myself seeming to be anything less than an expert.

The sun low in sky shining through conifer trees over a snowy landscape

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

The inconvenience and extra work of shovelling and slipping is offset by the chance to partake in that favourite of Norwegian past times, skiing. Not the kind with lifts (although they do have that) but cross country skiing with thin skis, uphills and sweaty brows.

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

JCBs with huge ploughs work frantically during the nights to clear the roads, and pile the snow into huge, dirty drifts on street corners and in parking spaces. Thick coats, spiked tyres and snow shovels allow life to go on (almost) as normal.

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

It seems as if whatever force held back the freeze tried to stumble on until the end of 2024 but collapsed under the weight of winter a few days before the new year bells. Snow sticks to vertical tree trunks and street lights and cars slowly disappear under great soft mounds.

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Week 1 - January 1st-5th 2025 arrived girdled in cold, stilled by ice and quietened by snow. The cold can be absolutely brutal, with temperatures regularly dropping below -10, finding gaps in even the best fitting clothes. #naturephotography

A cathedral spire seen through snow-covered trees and bushes

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I dabble in wildlife photography so I am hoping that will be fairly straightforward. But once a month I will also try to post a video or soundscape of some sort. That is definitely new to me so we'll see how it goes! Please follow along and forgive any misidentification of species!

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Every Monday in 2025 I will post ~10 photos of life around me from the preceding week, accompanied by a short bit of writing. I am hoping that this will give me motivation to learn more about the species, habitats, landscapes, seasons, geography, culture and lives around me

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

One of my resolutions for the new year is to try and pay closer attention to the nature and turning of the seasons around me 🌿 It is so easy to let nearby nature, and the magic how it changes through the year, pass us by. I also want to get to know my adpoted home of Norway better 🇳🇴

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Just 4 days left to apply for this position! Please do circulate among any Indian researchers who may be interested and get in touch with me if you have any questions. 🌏 www.cmi.no/news/3358-re...

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Vacancy - Research Assistant/Associate: Conservation labour in India

We are seeking a qualified candidate to contribute to research into the labor dynamics in and around conservation projects/protec...

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Time to re-introduce myself after the great migration! Im a postdoc in 🇳🇴 studying labour dynamics in conservation. With a training in biology, and a PhD researching black rhino conservation in Kenya, I’m interested in interdisciplinary research that aims for a more effective and just conservation!

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Hugo Tagholm @hugotagholm.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Deep sea mining plans blocked in Norway 🇳🇴🚫 Environmental groups described the news as a “historic win” for ocean protection. Oslo had planned to let companies apply to mine 280,000 sq km (108,000 sq miles) of its waters, an area greater than the UK, for deep-sea minerals.

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Nick Harvey Sky @nickcharvey.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Hi, this is incredible thanks! I’m a postdoc studying labour dynamics in conservation, would love to be added if that’s ok

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