Funding Options for Environmental Projects: A Comprehensive Guide
26 January 2025 6:39pm
Funding Options for Environmental Projects: A Comprehensive Guide - explorer.land by OpenForests
Discover funding options for environmental projects with this guide. Learn about grants, impact investments, crowdfunding, and philanthropic funds.
Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake
26 January 2025 2:41pm
Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake | Nature Climate Change
The Arctic–Boreal Zone is rapidly warming, impacting its large soil carbon stocks. Here we use a new compilation of terrestrial ecosystem CO2 fluxes, geospatial datasets and random forest models to show that although the Arctic–Boreal Zone was overall an increasing terrestrial CO2 sink from 2001 to 2020 (mean ± standard deviation in net ecosystem exchange, −548 ± 140 Tg C yr−1; trend, −14 Tg C yr−1; P < 0.001), more than 30% of the region was a net CO2 source. Tundra regions may have already started to function on average as CO2 sources, demonstrating a shift in carbon dynamics. When fire emissions are factored in, the increasing Arctic–Boreal Zone sink is no longer statistically significant (budget, −319 ± 140 Tg C yr−1; trend, −9 Tg C yr−1), and the permafrost region becomes CO2 neutral (budget, −24 ± 123 Tg C yr−1; trend, −3 Tg C yr−1), underscoring the importance of fire in this region. How the carbon stocks of the Arctic–Boreal Zone change with warming is not well understood. Here the authors show that wildfires and large regional differences in net carbon fluxes offset the overall increasing CO2 uptake.
Snow Leopard - Training Grant – 2025
26 January 2025 2:34pm
Updated Planted Trees Map Reaches Near-Global Coverage
25 January 2025 4:41pm
Updated Planted Trees Map Reaches Near-Global Coverage
A new version of the Spatial Database of Planted Trees provides near-global coverage and other key updates.
Accessing the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (GRIIS)
25 January 2025 4:39pm
Introducing the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species -… | Melodie A. McGeoch
Accessing the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (GRIIS) The "IAS Toolkit for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework Target 6 on invasive alien species" is a useful resource now available for countries: https://lnkd.in/gdMBKbaE For users of the report there are a couple of additional details that may be helpful: 1. If you need to access the GRIIS data (Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species) there are two straightforward ways to do it: - Through the Information Publishing Toolkit of #GBIF in the form of individual country checklists - https://lnkd.in/gD8dJaG5 - Access the compiled Country Compendium (all countries in one dataset) published as open access: Pagad, S., Bisset, S., Genovesi, P. et al. Country Compendium of the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species. Sci Data 9, 391 (2022). https://lnkd.in/g-nSU5Gq [Direct access to dataset: https://lnkd.in/gBZE6cmC, and in the form of country checklists - as per the GBIF link which is correct in the document] 2. When using GRIIS or developing your own checklists the methods in the following open access papers are helpful - methods and standards for building and maintaining checklists and IAS databases. - Pagad, S., Genovesi, P., Carnevali, L. et al. Introducing the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species. Sci Data 5, 170202 (2018). https://lnkd.in/gwzYA-kY -Pagad, S., Bisset, S., Genovesi, P. et al. Country Compendium of the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species. Sci Data 9, 391 (2022). https://lnkd.in/gDXZ64d4. [Direct access to dataset: https://lnkd.in/gBZE6cmC, and in the form of country checklists - as per the GBIF link which is correct in the document] GRIIS was initiated, supported and produced by a partnership including multiple agencies under the then umbrella coordinating group GIASIP. https://lnkd.in/gp7Hsv2h
New Data Provides First Global Annual Picture of Cultivated and Natural Grasslands
25 January 2025 2:22pm
New Data Provides First Global Annual Picture of Cultivated and Natural Grasslands
This first global data on grassland extent offers the first look at where, how much and what kind of grasslands there are around the world.
Help Needed with Browning BTC-8E-HP5 Trail Camera Video Settings
16 January 2025 7:30pm
One Health Researchers anyone?
18 January 2025 9:05pm
23 January 2025 9:08am
Hi Grace,
Are you aware of the wildlife health bridge team at ZSL (link below)? It may be worth reaching out to the team who could point you towards people with similar interests.
24 January 2025 6:46pm
Hi Grace,
One Health is keen interest of mine. While the WHO incarnation of it many years ago focused on reducing antimicrobial resistance, I much prefer to take the more evolved view of more complex interactions between humans, wildlife, and our shared environments.
Quite a few institures in the UK have One Health Labs.
With focus on Africa, Adrian runs a lab at Edinburgh, and Roslin Instiute still do a bunch DOH - Home
He has published lots. Drop him a line Adrian Muwonge - Google Scholar
Also, check out (7) Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka | LinkedIn
She pioneered one health in Uganda to save gorilla populations, and succeeded! Her NGO is called Conservation through Public Health.
Similar to the issue that was facing gorillas in Uganda, chimps have for years been catching respiratory infections from humans, one source may be shared water sources. A study recently showed that by improving health of local children, chimps can be safeguarded from human to chimp crossover. I haven't seen a renewal of Uganda's One Health Policy which ended in 2023, but I do hope they are carrying on.
Uganda is particularly interesting from a one health perspective and a hotspot for zoonosis potential.
Lots going on in the space :)
24 January 2025 8:48pm
This is super helpful. Thank you for sharing!
New paper: Approaches for integrating evidence of the effectiveness of actions in conservation funding to inspire more effective practice
24 January 2025 8:05pm
BNP Paribas Foundation (up to €800k)
24 January 2025 7:31pm
John Lewis Partnership Foundation Nature Fund (up to £20k)
24 January 2025 7:08pm
CCTV or camera trap for 24/7 video recording
8 January 2025 12:01pm
11 January 2025 4:30pm
BTW, on this subject. I've developed the 24/7 video recorder part for this now. It works really well. It saves as .mov files that play on all platforms, Linux, Mac and Windows.
13 January 2025 6:21pm
The thermal recordings in this video were recorded with it
24 January 2025 12:34pm
Hi,
I am using these for my current project:
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They seem to be of good quality and support offline SD card storage. These run on 5V/1A. You should be able to run them for about two days on a 45 or 50,000mAh powerbank.
There should be UK versions of these.
However, like all CCTV manufacturers (atleast the ones i checked), downloading the continuous recordings isn't as easy as plugging in the SD card into your computer and copying the files. The video files are deliberately made hard to read. Everything is through their app. You can download events (movement/sound) captured by the cameras though.
Big Mothbox Expedition!
23 January 2025 3:19pm
23 January 2025 4:44pm
@hikinghack and @Hubertszcz , you know how excited I am about this transect/sub-project so please, do take as many pictures and info as you can. Looking forward to reading from you!
24 January 2025 8:53am
Sounds like so much fun.
Would love to replicate this one out here in Cambodia
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22 January 2025 12:35am
[deadline Jan 31] Climate Change AI workshop @ ICLR 2025 in Singapore
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21 January 2025 11:46am
Can/Should UAVs Be The Answer To Urbanisation & Wildlife Conflicts
20 January 2025 11:00am
Impact of Wildfires on Land Surface Cold Season Climate in the Northern High-Latitudes: A Study on Changes in Vegetation, Snow Dynamics, Albedo, and Radiative Forcing
19 January 2025 12:08pm
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Do the short videos happen mostly at night? If so, this is likely a problem with low batteries. The higher power required to power the IR flash can cause the camera to shut-down mid-video.
If this is happening with well charged batteries, it sounds like a camera failure (though I have not seen this).
[The factory firmware also limits night video to 20 seconds. If you want to work around this, I have developed a firmware image that eliminates this limit. The firmware also contains some other features that you may find useful. The firmware is available on my github site at: https://github.com/robertzak133/unified-btc-reverse ]