Podcast episode cover art for Tommy's Outdoors Conservation and Science, titled 'ConLab: Conservation Labour'. The image features two guests in a split-screen video call format against a dark olive greeawsn background with a gold border. On the left, a woman with dark hair tied up, smiling broadly and wearing a teal zip-up fleece. On the right, a man with shoulder-length brown hair and a beard, wearing over-ear headphones and a white patterned knit jumper, also smiling. Both appear to be in home settings.

Who are the people doing the actual work of conservation? How many of them are there and what are their working conditions? And whose labour remains invisible in the process?

I think this episode is eye-opening on an often neglected aspect of conservation. 🌍🦤🧪

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It was great to get the opportunity to really get into the weeds on who does the work of conservation, what kind of work is involved, what the working conditions are like, and what all this means for social and ecological outcomes

Huge thanks to @tommysoutdoors.com for having us!

224: Conservation Labour with Anwesha Dutta and Nick Harvey Sky Working in conservation? Take the survey➡️ CONLAB survey Who are the people doing the actual work of conservation? How many of them are there and what are their working conditions? And whose labour…

I was thrilled to appear on the Conservation and Science podcast recently discussing the CONLAB project!

If you work in conservation in any capacity and would like to contribute to this research, please do complete our survey, linked on the podcast webpage

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Conservation Labor: A New Frontier in Labor Theory and Conservation Science (CONLAB) There is a rapidly developing literature on the 'human dimensions' of conservation, including critical scholarship and appli...

Please do circulate the survey among colleagues, collaborators or anyone else who may be interested!

They survey takes around 20 minutes, does not ask for your name, and is available in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French.

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I had to miss #ICCB2025 this year, but attendees may be interested in our survey of global conservation labour. We need respondents who work in conservation in any capacity, anywhere in the world 🌍

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Nick Harvey Sky

If you spend time in Bymarka #Trondheim 🌳, we need you!

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Nick Harvey Sky

Hvis du tilbringer tid i Bymarka #Trondheim 🌳, trenger vi deg!

Étt landskap, mange landskap er et kunstprosjekt som leter etter folk som vil tegne sine egne versjoner av skogen. Absolutt alle kan være med! Finn ut hvordan ⬇️

#nature #wildlife #landscape

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Nick Harvey Sky

Hvis du tilbringer tid i Bymarka Trondheim 🌳, trenger vi deg!

Étt landskap, mange landskap er et kunstprosjekt som leter etter folk som vil tegne sine egne versjoner av skogen. Absolutt alle kan være med! Finn ut hvordan ⬇️

#nature #wildlife #landscape

www.nickharveyconservation.co.uk

Nick Harvey Sky

If you spend time in #Bymarka Trondheim 🌳, we need you!

One Landscape, Many Landscapes is an art project looking for people to draw their versions of the forest. Absolutely anyone can get involved! Find out how ⬇️

#nature #wildlife #landscape

www.nickharveyconservation.co.uk

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

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A thriving natural world is the foundation of economic growth and vital for health and wellbeing. Language that pits these against each other is unhelpful and deeply concerning.

Nature is not a blocker to growth.

The UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves has claimed that 'The balance has gone too far in the direction of always protecting every bat and every newt.' But how can this statement be true when the UK is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world?🌍

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Cover of a book by Laurie Lee called ‘Village Christmas And Other Notes on the English Year’. The cover has an image of children playing on sleds on a snow covered lane

It was wonderful to spend a few hours through Christmas and the new year with this! I can heartily recommend it to anyone

#naturewriting

The top of a baby's head in a had, carried in a baby carrier

I can confirm that it is difficult, but not impossible, to wade through snow with a camera and not wake up the baby strapped to your chest.

Black branhces sillhoutted against a cloudy sky, a bird eats berries at the bottom right

Greenfinch (Chloris chloris) A group of greenfinch strip the last of the berries from thin branches, bowing low like courtiers to pluck them from their perch🌿

A red squirrel in a larch tree, surrounded by brown branches

A red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) leaps stops to nibble on the cones of a bare larch. It turns one over in its dextrous paws, extracts the seeds, drops it almost absently then moves on to the next. A magpie (Pica pica), not dextrous enough or too lazy to open cones itself, waits for an opening 🌿

The sun low above the horizon, shining through trees. Cathedral on the rith and a black fence inteh foreground

Sunlight smearing itself through trees from just above the horizon.

A dim moon in the night sky

A wisp of cloud across a watery moon.

Dead spikes of a plant sticking out from deep snow

Silhouettes appears as frozen spikes of dead vegetation against snow and bare twigs across grey skies.

River, steaming in the cold. Grey columns supporting a bridge at the top

The air is so cold that the river steams like it is boiling. Steel grey water, grey concrete bridge, grey snow. People bring colour, with their painted wooden houses and the waterproof houses of those who brave the cold for a walk or a run.

Snowy pavement next to a road

The snow textures the world, it crunches, squelches, rasps, cracks, thuds and rustles. It reveals the rhythms of the city, as it reveals the habits of animals. SCars are privileged over people as piles block paths and cut-throughs that are open the rest of the year, sacrificed for clear car parks.

A snowy landscape and bare trees under a grey sky

Week 2 - January 6th-12th.

It is a week of textures and silhouettes rather than movement. Nature presents itself in monotones

#naturephotography

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Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris)

Of course this is supposed to be hooded crow, not hood crow!

A fieldfare eating berries, perched on a thin branch

A fieldfar perched on a branch, with fairy lights in the foreground

Fieldfare pluck berries from those street trees that have held on to them through the months since the long-forgotten autumn. The world seems to wait for the thaw, it will be a while yet.

A group of eider in a marina at the bottom, separated from the fjord by a harbour wall, with a island with buildings on in the background, with a snow-covered hill behind that

In the marina, a raft of eider float around searching for something unknown to me.

Common eider (Somateria mollissima)