Fruitful day discussing about #rewilding conflicts in the Ruhrgebiet area, a space of intense forest regrowth taking over former mining & heavy industrialised landscapes 🌳🌳

A bit later today, Monica Vasile is giving a talk on the history of #wildlife #reintroduction with a 🔎 on the Przewalski horses 🐎. One not to miss if you love storytelling based research! All details on how to join 👇

Sheffield friends, don't miss Justine's talk today! Ping Beastly Business Project ShARC Rosaleen Duffy Prof. Charlie Burns Simon Rushton

Putting together a special session for the Regional Studies Association #CEE24 conference with Saska Petrova:

Ecologies of Extractivism in CEE: The (un)making of a Region?

Dubrovnik, Sep 11-13

Deadline for abstracts: May 14

For more info & to submit: bit.ly/CEE24SS

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We at Wageningen U&R are recruiting 6 Rwandan PhD students working on an existing new project Connect - 'Transdisciplinary Research to Connect Conservation and Development through Basic Income Support” SDC_WUR Robert Fletcher - deadline June 1.

Thanks to the CASCADE we had a lovely Beastly Business Project mini reunion - #IWT featured a lot in our discussions 😀 Alison Hutchinson

Brilliant set of talks today discussing the leackage effects of the #EU #Biodiversity Strategy at #IFPM5 University of Helsinki! Common thread: bold 🎯 for strict protection & PAs expansion= lower🪵 production >>⬆️ imports from outside of 🇪🇺 where env rules & enforcement are less strict

The Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge wishes to appoint a three-year fixed-term Teaching Associate in Human Geography jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/45227/

Great discussion today at #IFPM5 University of Helsinki on the ambitions & impacts of #EU #Forest Strategy with Georg Winkel Forest & Nature Conservation Policy, Wageningen UR, @nikulajussi of WWF 🇫🇮 Karoliina Niemi of Finish Forest Industries and Adrian Tišťan from EU Environment. Much contention on defining & protecting #OldGrowthForests

Our Chair Prof. Georg Winkel opens the 2nd day of the #IFPM5 conference University of Helsinki with a keynote lecture on the #EU #Forest Strategy, its ambitions & policy implications. The lecture is followed by a panel discussion with Jussi Nikula Karoliina Niemi & Adrian Tišťan of EU Environment

One of the most inspiring talks today at #IFPM5 was Sabaheta Ramčilović-Suominen 🇵🇸 's! She is 🔎 at how #EU 's #Bioeconomy Strategy, with its continual attention to techno-inovation, prolongs colonial extractive relations within the supply chains while also furthering green sacrifice zones.

Kicking off the #IFPM5 at University of Helsinki a keynote lecture by Prof. Ndlovu-Gatsheni of Universität Bayreuth followed by a panel discussion w/ Akonwi Ayonghe, Muhammad Alif Sahide, Daniela Kleinschmit, Karen Nobre-Krull & Irmeli Mustalahti on pathways to #decolonize #forest policy & research.

The 5th International Forest Policy Meeting is just kicking off in (still wintery) Helsinki.
This year's #IFPM5 topic is #Political #Forests , so expect plenty of discussions on #EnvironmentalJustice & #Equity in forest #management .
I'll be live tweeting throughout the week 👇

Recently published - The geopolitics of fear: Pro-refugee resistance to Europe's racial security, by Berna Turam, sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Are you thinking about #restoration and/or #regeneration in Central and Eastern Europe? Would you like to talk about it at our session in Dubrovnik? CFP, #CCE24 , especially interested in epistemic conflicts, cooperation, participation, and alternative knowledges, & #regenag