#Pollinators are vital for food security and #biodiversity
#CGRFA invites you to share your views through a short questionnaire to inform the development of a Global Pollinator Platform.
🐝Your input will help shape this important initiative
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Wildlife photographer of the year – people’s choice 2026 A shortlist of 24 images has been selected for the wildlife photographer of the year people’s choice award. You can vote for your favourite image online. The winner will be announced on 25 March and shown from that date as part of the overall wildlife photographer of the year exhibition, which runs until 12 July at the Natural History Museum in London

Wildlife photographer of the year – people’s choice 2026

‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses supercharged by climate crisis Heating means pests breeding and spreading faster, warn scientists, with simplified current food system already vulnerable

‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses supercharged by #climatecrisis

- Heating means pests breeding and spreading faster, warn scientists, with simplified current food system already vulnerable

Story by me
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Pesticides and habitat loss additively reduce wild bees in crop fields - Nature Ecology & Evolution The authors synthesize bee assemblage data from 681 crop fields across three continents, finding that local pesticide hazards and decreasing adjacent semi-natural habitats both negatively affected wil...

Bee assemblage data from 681 crop fields across 3 continents shows that local pesticide hazards and decreasing adjacent semi-natural habitats negatively affected wild bee abundance and species richness in crop fields, while pesticides reduce functional diversity🧪🐝 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Land-use change undermines the stability of avian functional diversity - Nature Large-scale analyses of bird species traits reveal that land-use change reduces resilience of key ecological functions more than previously thought.

Land-use change undermines the stability of avian functional diversity - new #OA @nature.com paper with @patrickawalkden.bsky.social @josephtobias.bsky.social, combining #PredictsProject with #Avonet doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Graphic resembling a rebus puzzle. On the left is a yellow Uno ‘reverse’ card labeled ‘REVERSE.’ In the center are several pollinators—including a bat, butterfly, wasp, bumblebee, and monarch butterfly—labeled ‘POLLINATOR.’ On the right is a red downward-zigzag arrow labeled ‘DECLINE.’ In the bottom-right corner is the flag of the European Union. The full message reads: ‘Reverse pollinator decline.’

80% of our food crops and wild flowering plants depend on pollination.

Yet one-third of bee, butterfly and hoverfly species is in decline.

Our new EU Pollinator Monitoring Scheme aims to help reverse this trend by 2030.

More info: link.europa.eu/Jb7pBQ

🧪 How many bee species are there? A quantitative global estimate www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

UN Ocean conference gives 'glimmer of hope' for marine life Environmental groups have praised government's progress made on marine protection at the UN meeting

At #UNOC3, nearly 50 countries ratified the High Seas Treaty — historic progress for our sustainable ocean future.

@ceo.globalfishingwatch.org spoke to the BBC about how tech + transparency are game-changers for ocean protection.

Read more: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Saying Goodbye to Doug Beard, CASC Senior Administrator As CASC Senior Administrator Doug Beard prepares for his next chapter, we reflect on his long and accomplished career with the CASC network.

If you were fortunate to work w/ or x paths w/Doug - here is a bit of his legacy - congratulations on your retirement boss! 🐟🎣🐠 www.usgs.gov/index.php/pr... 🤗

#CASC #USGS #DoI

Just when you think @sdiazecology.bsky.social couldn't be even cooler - you see this time.com/collections/... 🤩- Súper felicitaciones!

Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century Numerous declines have been documented across insect groups, and the potential consequences of insect losses are dire. Butterflies are the most surveyed insect taxa, yet analyses have been limited in ...

Our paper is out, and it is distressing.

Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New @science.org
The disappearance of butterflies at a "catastrophic rate" in the United States
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Quantifying disturbance effects on ecosystem services in a changing climate - Nature Ecology & Evolution A generalizable, functional-trait-based approach for quantifying the effects of disturbances to ecosystem services and economic outcomes, including under climate change, highlights the need for incorp...

Brief interruption in my/our doom scrolling/posting to share a paper I'm really proud of that has taken almost a decade with the very patient @exconomist.bsky.social @katehelmstedt.bsky.social P. Reich, S. Polasky & K. Boersma
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A solid green background with bold white text in all capital letters reading: "NATURE IS KEY TO TACKLING THE CLIMATE CRISIS." The UN Environment Programme logo is in the top right corner.

From the depths of the ocean to the top of the mountains, nature holds an abundance of sustainable solutions to combat the #ClimateCrisis.

Explore how nations can tap into the power of nature to build a more sustainable future: www.unep.org/facts-about-...

W/ a heavy ♥️ we say farewell to a dear colleague Parthiba Basu. I only found out recently that he had passed. We had last spoke October 14 & a couple of weeks later he had suddenly passed. My condolences to his family & friends😢#pollinators #agroecology #bees #Asia

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There’s a lot of pressure when it comes to the 1st post! Here’s hoping this platform is a way better place to share ideas.

So I’ll post a (kinda) recent photo.
It’s #halongbay #haiphong #vietnam 🇻🇳 - where I’m from.

Enjoy! 🌏

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