georgeiorda.bsky.social
PI of #ERCStG #GreenFrontier 🔎#politics of #conservation in #EU
#Rewilding conflicts @FNPWUR
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He is currently under judicial control as he faces investigation for six criminal charges, including the promotion of fascist organisations.
Very hopeful in our independent judicial system! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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2 key points:
* we need to separate direct and indirect forms of #dispossession.
*we need to better integrate analysis of layered resources and layered politics.
>> In this case, the issues of wider environmental #degradation, livelihood #disruptions & #environmentalinjustice are left unadressed.
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3/ Anja Nygren from @helsinki.fi talks about dispossession by environmental degradation at the frontlines of oil extraction with a focus the struggles of fisher-farmers facing salinisation and contamination in 🇲🇽.
#extractivism #dispossession
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2 key points:
* after the invasion many moved to rural areas, engaged in small scale agriculture, which increases #foodsovereignty & keeps the morale high.
* while previously rural 🇺🇦 was badly affected by depopulation & #landabandonment, now there are no houses uninhibited across the country.
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2/ Natalia Mamonova from @ruralis.no talks about the impacts of Russia’s war on Ukrainian agriculture, examining domestic food shortages, global food crises, and the lessons necessary to build resilient food systems in the face of global disruptions.
#foodcrisis #foodshortage
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Massive congratulations for impeccable organisation, and thanks for chairing the Policies session as well!
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14/ @cristianmoyano.bsky.social unpacks the triage in conservation, looking at epistemic biases & prioritization logics. #Rewilding prioritizes 3 groups of nonhuman species valued differently:
☆Vulnerable species > intrinsic values
☆Flagship sp > relational values
☆Keystone sp > instrumental values
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13/ Norbert Peeters from @w-u-r.bsky.social makes us think about plant blindness in #rewilding by drawing on examples from several popular Dutch rewilding initiatives
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12/ @friderikespang.bsky.social explores new models to represent wildlife in policymaking. She introduces the idea of engaged trustees that could serve as informed representatives of wildlife interests in public fora. Brilliant stuff!
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11/ Sara Aref Zahed from @univie.ac.at talking about how wolves 🐺 have become political symbols mobilized by far-right parties in 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 🇨🇭 & 🇫🇷 often in association with migration 'crises'. Wolves attacks increase voting preference for far-right.
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10/ Day 2 of Rethinking Wild Europe workshop @univie.ac.at starts with a fascinating keynote by @martindrenthen.bsky.social on the strategies for dealing with the recent dispersal of #wolves into 🇳🇱. He unpacks the 🗝 question - what is really at stake in the Dutch wolf debate?
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It is! Let me know if you want to listen to some of the presentations tomorrow
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9/ Brenda Maria Zonderer from the Institute of Landscape Development, Vienna, assesses the diversity of #rewilding practices in Europe. In the absence of a legal framework these initiatives are bottom-up processes, promoted by non-state actors responding to local challenges.
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8/ Ian Florin from École Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne talks about the Rewilding London Initiative and presents results of a recent study: many actors avoid the term completely, as it appears overly radical. It is used very successfully in funding applications tough.
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7/ back from the break, we have Heather Urquhart from @official-uom.bsky.social who brings a decolonial ecofeminist perspective on #rewilding in Scotland and shows how the Highlands are emptied not empty & how the power to rewild these places is wildly unequal.
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6/ Emma Cary of @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social w/ amazing talk on decision-making in 🇬🇧 restoration & rewilding is inherently social, leave little room for alternative knowledge systems and disregard implications of social-ecological justice. More on this their paper www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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5/ Arnaud Gane from UCLouvain draws on their research on 3 rewilding organisations to investigate how the future orientation if #rewilding produces anticipatory ecologies which clash with the expectations of local farmers in Vercors.
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4/ David Hořak from Charles Univ Prague moves the attention to the Třeboňsko reserve on the 🇨🇿 🇦🇹 border and shows how human-made hydrological structures still sets up the terms of the evolving ecology of the area but stops short of allowing a full self-willed nature to take hold.
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You might want to check your email ;)
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3/ Brilliant talk next by @laurilahikainen.bsky.social & Suvielise Nurmi on the frictions between naturecultural landscapes and pulp capitalism in #Finland. They contextualize the concept of #plenitute as rooted in the Sámi traditions of thinking about the land as a web of relationships of care.
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2/ @monicavasile.bsky.social from @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social delivers the opening keynote with 3 stories on #rewilding 's past. Following the attempts to protect Swiss Ibex, virgin forests of 🇷🇴 & European #bison, Monica shows that past legacies & plot twists still impact current conservation.
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Hope you're having a fantastic time there, dear!
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Great to hear, massive congrats Dr Matt! 👏
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Very much looking forward to reading it!