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adamfsmith.bsky.social
PhD Nature Conservation / Wildlife biologist 🐺🦌 working in EU and Ukraine 🇺🇦🇪🇺 / Sometimes volunteer 🇺🇦 / Irish 🇮🇪 / All thoughts personal, not professional
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What an unbelievable embarrassment the US President and VP are to their country. Ambushing an allied leader in the Oval Office, demanding his gratitude, while Europe's poorest country and fights a war for survival and sovereignty... Land of the sheep, home of the weak 🐑🇺🇲

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

There are 43 CRUs across the US. Their mission is to conduct research, train & educate graduate students, & provide technical assist. to cooperators (like state F&W agencies). They’ve already lost scientists to initial layoffs. Their complete loss would be devastating to conservation & education.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Dublin was blue and yellow today, and the sun shone down on us! Ukraine still stands, and we still #StandWithUkraine 🇮🇪🫂🇺🇦

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

🔴🇺🇦 This is the largest drone attack against Ukraine so far: last night Russia launched 267 Shahed drones & decoys all across Ukraine. Air defence says it intercepted 138, 119 got lost, 4 returned to Belarus/Russia & damages were recorded in Dnipropetrovsk, Odessa, Poltava, Kyiv & Zaporizhia regions.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Follow us if you would like more information about our projects on large #carnivores, the #wildcat, the golden #jackal and #ungulates @korafoundation.bsky.social 🐺🐾🐗🦌😻

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The yanks are expediting a long list of 2025 bullshit they will have to answer for...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Friday SCOOP: @vox.com has learned that USFWS has frozen its vast portfolio of international conservation grants. This is far beyond the scope of USAID-funded work and will inevitably harm wildlife internationally and in the US. @benjij.bsky.social has the story: www.vox.com/down-to-eart...

submitted 14 days ago • 16 comments

Good thread, and a reality check for some in the UK, too. If culling + another 50,000 deer killed by cars every year doesn't make a dent right now, expecting a few hundred Lynxes or Wolves to regulate Britain's deer isn't realistic. But yes, Britain should restore Lynx and maybe Wolves anyway.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Sorry, but while I believe it is spread in good faith, I think this is a good time to call out this common mistruth in the Irish ecological community. Indulge me for a minute, I just finished 5 years in Europe working with wolves, lynx, and deer. "Lack of wolves" is not the problem. Short🧵

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

Wouldn't be Valentine's Day without a camera trap picture and a shitty caption ❤️

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments