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kalpapran.bsky.social
Incoming PhD Student at Clemson University; Population and Movement Researcher— currently working on leopard ecology and conservation. Using this mostly for science and keeping up w/ new findings!
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JOB OPPORTUNITY: come be my peer at @wcs.org as the new Regional Director of the Sudano-Sahel Region, overseeing conservation programs in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad and Nigeria, reporting to a regional office based in Kigali, Rwanda. 🌍🧪 More here: shorturl.at/O2c41

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When one of your co-authors agree with reviewer #2...

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Almost 200 nations have signed an ambitious agreement to halt and reverse biodiversity loss but none is on track to meet the crucial goal, our new research… phys.org/news/2025-02...

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A mature male lion was spotted on the Bhavnagar Somnath national highway near Dudhala village in Amreli district, forcing vehicles to stop. Spillover alert timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/rajkot/...

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Study shows reintroducing wolves to Scottish Highlands could help address climate emergency. Wolves control red deer, leading to expansion of native woodland which stores one million tonnes of CO2 annually 🐺🌳 See here 👇 https://buff.ly/3EHFNfr 🌎🧪

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Kudos to additional protected #connectivity Assam govt notifies Chirang-Ripu Elephant Reserve as 8th national park in the state, to be named Sikhna Jwhwlao National Park

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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...

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📢✨🌏New paper investigating how #emotions shape #attitudes to #wolf #conservation #management in the Italian #Alps #OpenAccess here🔗➡️ lnkd.in/ehZYcBs9 Implications for navigating #co-existence with #carnivores in #cultural #landscapes & social #acceptance of recovered species 📸🙏Claudia Wartmann

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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🧵

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The tiny lizard that will test Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” agenda www.vox.com/down-to-eart...

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Five years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic served as a wake-up call. Since then, health experts worldwide have sat on tenterhooks, hyperaware that pathogens can jump… news.mongabay.com/2025/02/decl...

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Finally @besmovesig.bsky.social is on @bsky.app !

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Scientists are training the first generation of rats in Tanzania to detect illegal wildlife trafficked products. Their research shows that African giant pouched rats can locate concealed wildlife products such as pangolin scales, rhino horns and ivory in shipments.

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Loggerheads use magnetic ‘map’ and ‘compass’ to navigate the ocean www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Mapping the functional decline of top predators in the Gran #Chaco – a global deforestation hotspot. New paper led by @alfredoromero.bsky.social just out in Diversity & Distributions 👉https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.70003 @humboldtuni.bsky.social / @biogeoberlin.bsky.social

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Somehow despite these economic realities, climate change and incentivising mitigation measures seem like a sham to some lawmakers and bureaucrats. If this does not motivate, I don't know what else will.

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How do red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) explore their environment? Characteristics of movement patterns in time and space movementecologyjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Although the photo in the article is not of a new species found at periyar TR, Asian Fairy #bluebird really justifies the name! What a beauty! www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...

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Excited to present our latest paper where we take a close look at what we know (and are yet to know) about biodiversity in Antarctica! 🔗 Check out a summary of the work: arcsaef.com/story/new-an... 🔗 Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/ddi....

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This’s just a teaser. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Amazing #PhD opportunity at @uninmbu.bsky.social with an amazing research group studying movement ecology of wolves, wolverines and brown bears in Scandinavia! Deadline for applications : 01.03.2025. Kindly repost and help spread the word. Thanks! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Illicit releases of controversial wild animals can undermine public trust in evidence-based conservation and inflame already-sensitive discussions about what species to conserve, how, and where. 👉 go.nature.com/4guJdzr @chrissuthy.bsky.social @lambin-ecology.bsky.social @kennyafc.bsky.social

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🤣🤣🤣 timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/tigres...

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While Britain agonises about a few lynx, a new inspiring analysis of tiger recovery in India, the world's most human-populated country, by @ninadm.bsky.social and others. Both land sharing and sparing are needed, and cultural acceptance and economic benefits... www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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I am excited to announce that we are advertising a summer school in model-based multivariate analysis for ecologists. It will take place in Hjerkinn, Norway from 21-25 July. More information can be found at bertv.folk.ntnu.no/index.html and in this 🧵. #GLLVM

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The shapefiles are gone! 🎉 The {spData} package has officially dropped all datasets in the shapefile format, moving toward modern and efficient geospatial data standards. 🚀🌍 Upgrade your workflows with {spData}: https://buff.ly/4htZ5D3 #rspatial #rstats #GIS #Geocompx

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“We immediately release them and avoid bringing them onto the boat, as we believe having a turtle onboard affects the catch. We worship turtles.” What a pickle.... india.mongabay.com/2025/01/mass...

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First paper from my postdoc is out in #EcologicalMonographs w/ @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social! We looked at patterns of summer co-occurrence among 5 predators at 3 time scales to assess how competition, prey, & habitat affected predator distributions in north Idaho, USA. dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

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Except AF, definitely will start scoping them out from May onwards. Also, will try using e-bird with a renewed zest (almost 4 years behind on checklists submission!) www.moneycontrol.com/science/10-i...

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Everyone needs some beach time! timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedab...

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📖Published📖 In our new Application article, Markowska et al. present a new open-source R package called rangr, which integrates population dynamics and dispersal into a mechanistic virtual species simulator 🌎 🧪 Read more here 👇 https://buff.ly/4hBRTVH

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We have a great list of ongoing award, fellowship and grant opportunities that we thought our members might be interested in. 🌍 #conservation #MarineLife #ecology Check it out here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #conservation #funding #fellowships #awards

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I see no logical reason to choose MDPI over society journals.

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Lovely and calming morning read… www.telegraphindia.com/travel/fores...

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We are reading this paper - again! - for lab meeting this week. It’s so good and essential that it requires periodic revisiting, esp. as new folks join my group. Generates great discussion and introspection. The authors also approach the topic with refreshing humility. doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

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Interesting updates from Ben Bolker on modelling approaches (see paper) In sum: - Doing hypothesis testing or measuring the strength of effects? Then you can use your fullest, maximal model w/ all covariates* ✅ - Doing prediction? Then carry on w/ AIC model selection & averaging ✅ *wisely chosen!

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World’s tiniest transmitter finds nesting area of rarest migratory shorebird news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

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Hundreds of tortoises have died following severe floods at a sanctuary in southwestern Madagascar that houses and protects more than 12,000 of the critically endangered animals. By Shanna Hanbury news.mongabay.com/short-articl... #wildlife #madascar #tortoises #floods

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