No you're exactly right, but it still isn't easy and the stats nearly killed us here 😅

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A podcast episode cover for 'Tommy's Outdoors: Conservation and Science'. On the left, a black-and-white night vision trail camera image captures a sika deer stag facing the camera in woodland, its eyes reflecting the infrared light. On the right, a young man with short dark hair and a beard wearing over-ear headphones smiles at the camera during a video call, with a partial set of antlers visible as wall décor behind him. The episode title reads '60 Cameras Covering 250 Square Kilometres' in bold gold and white text on a dark green banner across the bottom.

What does it take to track wildlife across 250 square kilometres of Irish woodland? How do you position cameras to capture elusive species like otters and pine martens without introducing bias into your data? Listen to my conversation with @adamfsmith.bsky.social
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Wildlife attacks and strange animal behavior — fake images spark conservation concerns When Houssein Rayaleh received a WhatsApp message from a local ecotourism guide showing footage of a lioness in Djibouti, he was excited. The video showed the big cat running directly in front of a…

Conservationists warn that realistic AI-generated wildlife images are fueling misinformation — making dangerous encounters seem normal, wasting authorities’ time on false sightings, and stoking fear of animals.

Experts say it risks eroding trust, encouraging persecution, and harming conservation.

Check our new paper on #wolf 🐺 diet in Switzerland. Congratulations to the whole team! @dee-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social @korafoundation.bsky.social @philippinesurer.bsky.social @wildlifebiology.bsky.social

Dr Adam Smith of UCD and the Urban Wildlife Information Network collected the wildlife camera for the Autumn cycle of wildlife capture. The #NCADFIELD is delighted to be part of UWIN, a network of 65 cities globally which put out cameras synchronously in green urban sites.

@adamfsmith.bsky.social

Russia bombing civilians last night shows how much Ukraine doesn't want peace

One dead, 24 wounded in 'massive' Russian attack on Kyiv Russia has in recent months intensified its attacks on infrastructure.

Almost every district in Kyiv was under "massive" attack Friday morning, the Ukrainian capital's mayor said, with one death reported and 30 residential buildings damaged across the city.
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Camera trap image from a Reconyx camera. The photo shows a showy boreal forest in late November. There are aspen and spruce trees in the background. There are two yellow and red vertical poles in the centre of the photo. To the right of the photo is an 8-pointed white-tailed deer buck with longer darker hair on the top of this head that looks kind of like a toupe.

Is this deer still considered an unmarked individual if it has such a distinctive (and stylish) coiffure?
@friresearch.bsky.social

#cameratrapping

In 2025, Russia brought horses back to the battlefield. Why?

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Over a hundred Russian drones over Ukraine right now. Our night starts with Russian terrorism. Again.

Amazing work Kathi 👏

Happy to see this first PhD chapter out in the big wild world.

I’m at a #NatureRestoration event where the dinner menu has wild venison to create a discussion about invasive species and the reintroduction of predators. A tasty way to stimulate debate. @irishrainforest.bsky.social @whittledaway.bsky.social @thinkorswim.bsky.social

Very cool to learn that everyone is non-binary in Hungary

This is the guy who went to Iran and told everyone how great it was, the week they hanged a bunch of women. Freedom and justice for Palestine, but not for Ukraine. I still hope they stay safe and succeed, but:

"Honey we see your hypocrisy"

Conceptualizing and measuring ecological spillover effects from protected areas Protected areas influence their surroundings in a variety of ways. These “spillover effects” can change an area's conservation value and affect its social license. Advanced statistical tools for quan...

My latest paper, just published in #ESA's Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, focuses on the need to think about spatial patterns and sampling design when attempting to measure ecological #spillovers from protected areas. 🌍🦑🧪
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Zelensky got the tape didn’t he

OPW has paid snipers €17,000 to kill 118 deer in Phoenix Park since last year - including fawns Four culls took place at the park last year, resulting in 93 wild deer being fatally shot.

- Science-based herd monitoring
- Science-based, sustainable cull plan
- Vension goes into the food chain
- Public safety a priority, hiring very experienced vets and hunters (not snipers, the headline is misleading)

A good example of urban wildlife management 🦌

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Map showing th distribution of the standardized GPS data (green circles), of den sites (orange triangles) used for the analysis of movement patterns and den use of female lynx, and of field-checked kill sites and corresponding dens (blue squares) used to analyse kill site distribution in relation to the den.

A new #EUROLYNX paper out on variability in the movement and foraging behaviour of female Eurasian #lynx during the denning season across Europe! 🐈

🐾Movement metrics and kill-to-den distances were evaluated using GPS data from two climatic regions.
📄Read more here: doi.org/10.1002/oik....

We could have been providing military aid to Ukraine. We could have been building our partnerships in the Pacific. We could have strengthened Europe’s defense industrial base. We could have helped build state capacity in South America.

What a fucking disaster this has all been.

They just hit a university

EPA licensing rules to protect our fragile rivers are being repeatedly breached Public records about North Cork Creameries’ operations paint a disquieting picture of how regulators are performing

North Cork Creameries is a member of Bord Bia's 'Origin Green' greenwashing programme despite 125 non-compliance notices since 2020 and listing on the EPA's top polluter watchlist 🙈

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EPA licensing rules to protect our fragile rivers are being repeatedly breached Public records about North Cork Creameries’ operations paint a disquieting picture of how regulators are performing

A brilliant piece by @ellamcsweeney.bsky.social in the @irishtimes.com this morning highlights the lack
of enforcement of environmental legislation.

North Cork Creameries (a member of Bord Bia’s Origin Green programme) has been issued with 125 non-compliance notices since 2020.

#BirdStudy welcomes submissions on all aspects of #ornithology, eg. distribution/abundance patterns; movements/dispersal; habitat effects; census, marking & tracking, behaviour; conservation. Main focus Europe, Atlantic, Afro-Palearctic Flyway, N Africa, but useful papers considered from any region.

Russian drones violated Polish airspace on the night of Sept 9/10 in what NATO & European officials have suggested was an intentional Russian incursion.The large number of Russian drones that violated Polish airspace suggests that this was likely an intentional Russian effort.
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I respect Anil so I want to talk seriously about harm reduction and public health messaging.

First let me acknowledge that yes, many regular, not-super-online people are trying out AI tools. Of course they are! It's been aggressively pushed into everything and given heavy institutional support.

Does hunting benefit wildlife conservation? Click on the article title to read more.

2025. Does hunting benefit wildlife conservation? "animal welfare theorists might raise ethical questions about the legitimacy of some or all forms of hunting, even if it benefits conservation" esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Google Sign in is dunkin cereal milk gluten fr Al Overview +1 No, Dunkin' Cereal Milk is not gluten-free because it contains milk, which is a common allergen, and as a result, it is not suitable for those with celiac disease or gluten intolerance. However, coffee drinks, dairy milk, and non-dairy milks like oat, almond, and coconut milk are naturally gluten-free at Dunkin'.

In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.

A wildlife camera trap

A fallow deer doe photographed by a camera trap.

I'm terrible at updating you all on conservation and ecology work, but I can promise you this:

It is the biggest year for Irish camera trapping since records began, and it's not even close.

Why is this important? With this data, we can guide management and learn more about Irish nature.

A meme with two pictures of a boy in a red shirt. In the upper picture, he looks scared and has the following text next to him: Losing my passport where my country doesn't have an embassy. In the bottom picture, he looks happy and confident, has EU stars behind him and the text says: Realising EU citizens can get help from any EU country’s embassy.

Travelling outside the EU this summer? You can count on the EU for help!

If something goes wrong, and your country does not have an embassy or consulate in the country that you are travelling to, you can get help from another EU country that does - your right as an EU citizen.

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