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wissevanengelen.bsky.social
PhD researcher at University of Cologne & University of Twente | Studying wildlife conservation & disease control in Botswana
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As Val Plumwood argued, place-based environmental action often overlooks the fact that we live in a connected world, where ecologies and economies in the Global North are supported by ‘shadow places’ in the Global South.

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Fuck you, @nature.org.

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Very cool new environmental anthropology project by Diego Menestrey to start here at the University of Cologne. On the political ecology of bush encroachment in Namibia gssc.uni-koeln.de/forschung-1/...

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“radical rewilding and conventional agriculture are so often starkly contrasted across an almost Cartesian divide, yet here we find a practice that segues organically into both.” Interesting piece on ‘agricultural rewilding’👇

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Our special issue on (the #anthropology of) #Restoration in Environment and Society is out: a diverse collection of #review articles covering various regions, habitats and species. With Jessica Vandenberg.

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Really nice documentary about coexistence with rats, including some refreshing perspectives on their role in disease transmission: youtu.be/ghaiiiGmAsY?...

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Nearly all the media reports on today’s foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in Germany mention the threat of illegal import of animal products from FMD endemic countries. But this ignores how Europe has deliberately chosen to make itself vulnerable to the disease by having a non-vaccination policy

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Outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in water buffalo in Brandenburg, Germany www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

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Backbreeding and genetic engineering cannot perfectly recreate extinct species but they can be valuable efforts nevertheless e360.yale.edu/features/de-...

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Good overview of what we know about the evolution of bird flu and its devastating impacts so far: www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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And finally, the @ipbes.bsky.social #TransformativeChange assessment has been approved! Happy and proud of what we have achieved. Hope that this will change the narrative of #Biodiversity #Conservation towards #justice and addressing the political-economic root causes of nature’s decline

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Please join us coming Monday (02 Dec) as we delve into the topic of wildlife-livestock interfaces in northern Botswana. The full programme and Zoom link can be found here: rewilding.de/news/upcomin...

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This summer my ERC colleagues Paula Alexiou, Julia Brekl, Emilie Köhler and I published an article in which we asked how we can politicise multispecies studies in order to account for the injustices in Southern Africa's postcolonial conservation landscapes www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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“What is called the Anthropocene is just the recognition of the artificiality of the natural—like Burgundy itself, the land, and the wine.” Great piece on Bruno Latour’s background and thinking (philosophical and religious; natural and artificial) www.jhiblog.org/2024/10/28/a...

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Had some great presentations and discussions on rewilding, wildlife disease and conflict at the Pathways conference this week. Really enjoyed the exchange of insights on foot-and-mouth disease, african swine fever, trypanosomiasis and more!

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Vaccinating badgers more effective than culls in stopping bovine TB, study finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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For my research I made a short film about one of Botswana's 'buffalo fences'. It can be watched on our project website here: rewilding.de/short-film-t...

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