Check out how @guardias.bsky.social is using advanced #eDNA barcoding and trialling "quicklime" treatments to protect Belgian wetlands from the African clawed frog ⬇️

🗺️April is #CitizenScienceMonth
👉Citizen Science aims at creating a bridge between science and the public, actively involving citizens in research projects
➡️Learn more and become a citizen scientist yourself: easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu/easin/Citize...

Join #CitizenScienceMonth 🔬

Check out how our sister project @guardias.bsky.social contributes to building Europe's early alert system for #IAS 🚨

Harnessing citizens to document biodiversity change in their gardens: OneSTOP at ECSA 2026 Between 3 and 6 March 2026, Sofie Meuus and Quentin Groom took part in the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) conference in Oulu, Finland and presented OneSTOP with a poster.  The topic...

🌐Between 3 and 5 March, Sofie Meeus and @cabbageleek.bsky.social took part in the @ecsa.ngo conference in Oulu, Finland
🌱OneSTOP was presented with a poster on harnessing citizens to document biodiversity change in their gardens
➡️Learn more: onestop-project.eu/news/harness...

👀What does biodiversity look like in your own backyard?
➡️Check out @inaturalist.bsky.social's feature on CBS Sunday morning and learn more about how citizen science contributes to #biodiversity monitoring

📑A new article focuses on the interplay between climatic niche and spatial distribution, which can inform the management of non-native invasive species
🔗Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out @guardias.bsky.social's new factsheet on #eDna tracking and physical removal of Marbled Crayfish

🤝 Better together! It’s been a busy first year collaborating with our sister project @onestop-project.eu to protect European biodiversity from #InvasiveAlienSpecies. 🌿

Catch up on our joint milestones and see what we’ve achieved so far in our latest blog post:
👉 guardias.eu/a-year-of-ac...

A Year of Action: GuardIAS and OneSTOP’s First Year Tackling Invasive Alien Species Across Europe Authored by Grace Windsor from the Irish Ocean Literacy Network, Nadya Denkova from Pensoft Publishers, Stelios Katsanevakis from the University of the Aegean, Quentin Groom from Meise Botanic Garden ...

🌏It’s been over a year since OneSTOP and our sister-project @guardias.bsky.social kicked off with the shared aim of tackling the threat of #InvasiveAlienSpecies in Europe

👉Check out what the two projects have been up to in our joint blogpost: onestop-project.eu/news/year-ac...
#BioInvasions

📢 You can submit your latest work to #OpenLivingLabDays2026 until 15 May!
🐿️The theme “Living Labs Impacts and Values for a Changing World” highlights the vital role Living Labs play in today’s rapidly evolving environment
👉Learn more: openlivinglabdays.com/call-for-pap...

🐋 Our sister project @guardias.bsky.social has published its policy brief on Aligning conservation policy with ecological reality beyond national borders

Read the policy brief below ⬇️

🌐Join @bmd-project.eu's interactive webinar on 3O March
👀Register and learn more: bmd-project.eu/news/explori...

📢 @bmd-project.eu is hosting a three-day workshop for #Natura2000 site managers and EU conservation practitioners
🌱 It will provide practical experience with tools for detection of species, such as camera traps, environmental #eDNA sampling and publishing #biodiversity #data to @gbif.org

Check out how our sister project @guardias.bsky.social is using #eDNA

📢OneSTOP is going to the #ECSA2026!
This afternoon, Sofie Meeus will present a poster on how OneSTOP uses PlantAlert in #LivingLabs to turn citizen observations into an early alert system for biodiversity 🚨
➡️Learn more: www.ecsa2026.ngo/programme/#1...

🤔 Have you already used the CamAlien Viewer?
🗺️ It is a map service that allows you to see where specific #InvasiveAlienSpecies have been spotted and further identify them through the pictures taken by #CamAlien.
💡 Try it now: camalien.ecoscience.dk

👉 You can submit an abstract for a talk, poster or a booth for #BioMonWeek2026 until 18 March
🔗 See the topics and the full conference programme: 2026.biomonweek.eu/page/program...

Join the new feed and starter pack on #EUmonitoring and #data projects ⬇️

OneSTOP and #CamALIEN were presented at Serra da Aboboreira: Living Lab 🌱

🌐 Are you ready to level up your data skills?
Join the first #BCubedTraining session tomorrow ⬇️

📑A new paper focuses on how social media data can help track species range shifts
👉Read it: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What happened in OneSTOP’s first year: Insights from our Annual Meeting 2026 A year after the project’s kick-off, OneSTOP’s consortium got together in Almeria, Spain at the EEZA-CSIC (Experimental Station of Dry Areas) between 19 and 22 January 2026. The meeting began with an ...

Hard to believe it’s already been over a year since OneSTOP kicked off!
🌱Last month, our consortium got together in Almería, Spain at the EEZA-CSIC to share updates and plan the next steps of the project’s development.
👀Learn where we stand a year into our project: onestop-project.eu/news/what-ha...

An updated List of Introduced and Invasive Species for Belgium has been published Introduced and invasive species (IIS) have significant ecological and economic impacts, and contribute to global biodiversity change in a major way. Their management requires access to national lists ...

🐿️Effective management of introduced and invasive species (IIS) requires reproducible workflows to generate and update national #IIS lists
📃The TriAS Project introduced such a workflow to generate the Belgian list, which has been updated as part of OneSTOP
More 👉 onestop-project.eu/news/updated...

🌎 Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
🔬Today, we celebrate the work of
#WomenInScience who have contributed to the wealth of research worldwide with their knowledge on biodiversity, climate, policy and raise awareness that science and gender equality must advance hand-in-hand.

📍 The @onestop-project.eu project consortium met in Almería, Spain, to align scientific, technical and policy work across the project.
🌵 A field visit to Cabo de Gata helped ground our discussions in the local landscape.
🙏 Many thanks to EEZA-CSIC for the warm welcome and great organisation!

Fantastic annual meeting for @onestop-project.eu in Almeria! Very useful discussions for planning our air eDNA sampling campaign this summer.

📢 Tomorrow is #ReverseTheRedDay!
🌱 Reverse the Red Day is an annual celebration of the conservation work to reverse trends of biodiversity loss - those shown through negative slides on the Red List of Threatened Species.
🔎 Learn about some of the conservation success stories:
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🌏Registration and abstract submissions for #BioMonWeek26 are open!
🔗Learn more and register here: 2026.biomonweek.eu/page/home/

📖A new article on how alien species checklists contribute to better management of #InvasiveAlienSpecies
👀Read it: neobiota.pensoft.net/article/1591...