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Learn how to navigate and use the Global Wildfire Collective Spatial Data Gateway, an open-access hub for wildfire-related spatial data.

Watch the demo:
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Explore the Gateway:
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#WildfireData #OpenScience #FireEcology

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

Our Global Wildfire Collective Spatial Data Gateway is here! Intended for sharing wildfire-related data, maps, models, tools, and publications.

Explore now!
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#GlobalWildfireCollective #ConsBio #DataBasin #FireData #WildfireData #Wildfire #Fire #FireResearch

We’re proud to share that Dr. Alexandra Syphard spoke on NPR about the Roadless Rule and wildfire risk. She highlighted how roads can boost suppression access but also raise ignitions and fire risk. Listen here: n.pr/3Y6O1E7
#Wildfire #FireEcology #GWCCharterMember @dramalamujer.bsky.social

In Cundinamarca, Colombia, the first Indigenous Forest Brigade is safeguarding Cerro Majuy. They prevent biodiversity loss & promote sustainable practices, lead emergency wildfire response, and train continuously in fire management, first aid & conservation.

Read more:
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Our fourth speaker at tomorrow's webinar will be Dr. Jennifer Schmidt! Dr. Schmidt works at University of Alaska Anchorage and is interested in the research and management of socio-ecological systems that help balance conservation efforts with the needs of society.

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🔥Wildfires Sweep Coastal Syria / 06 JUL

Intense #wildfires near Latakia, Syria, fueled by soaring temps & strong winds, send plumes of smoke across Hama & Aleppo. Prolonged heatwaves & dry conditions tied to #ClimateChange are heightening fire risks across the eastern Mediterranean🌍 #ClimateCrisis

Our first speaker at the second event in the Global Wildfire Collective’s Fire Ecology webinar series is Dr. Mike Flannigan (BC Innovation Research Chair in Predictive Services, Emergency Management and Fire Science, Faculty of Science, University of Alberta.

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The second speaker at our upcoming webinar will be Dr. Sarah Henderson! Sarah is the scientific director of Environmental Health Services at BCCDC and of the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health (NCCEH).

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REGISTER NOW for the second event in the Global Wildfire Collective’s Fire Ecology webinar series! This time, the focus is on wildfires in boreal ecosystems. You won't want to miss it!

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Our second day in #Colombia was a field visit to the astounding Parque Nacional Natural Chingaza, on the outskirts of #Bogotá. Check it out!

The Global Wildfire Collective convened its first expert group meeting last week in Bogotá! The meeting focused on identifying resources and gaps for wildfire resilience & recovery across the Latin America and Caribbean region. CBI and the GWC are grateful to our many hosts, colleagues and friends.

I hope every Pride parade in the country happens at the same time as Donold’s military one.

A higher tech iron lung for when RFK Jr puts polio back in fashion?

Very much looking forward to this meeting. We have an extraordinary interdisciplinary group of practitioners and experts coming together and I am ready to soak up lots of new-to-me information!

I just can’t get over how adorable this bombus’s little fuzzy jodhpurs are!

You already have ripe blueberries where you live?!?! Jealous!

Utah passed a law to ban Pride flags.

Salt Lake City created new official city flags that incorporated banned flag features, so they can be flown w/o breaking the law.

"So shines a good deed in a wearing world."

The $200 Billion Gamble: Bill Gates’s Plan to Wind Down His Foundation

This is what we need from the billionaire class. (Headline is misleading- Gates is accelerating the pace of grant making for 20 years to make up the gap in Fed research funding- which means the foundation will spend the endowment in 20 years) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/m...

Most of my garden is either natives or vegetables. But in the PNW I also need some bigger blooms to get me through the typically dreary spring. Lots of new irises this year and more still working their way toward blooms.

The Global Wildfire Collective is convening an expert group meeting (EGM), May 21-22 at Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá, Colombia.

This meeting is by invitation only. If you would like to request an invitation, please use this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Rescinding the Definition of “Harm” Under the Endangered Species Act The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (collectively referred to as the Services or we) are proposing to rescind the regulatory definition of "harm" ...

The Trump administration is proposing to redefine the term "harm" in the Endangered Species Act, which could significantly weaken the law's protections for imperiled plants and animals by excluding habitat destruction.

Submit a public comment, by May 19: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

I think the threat is not just retaliation against their campaigns or potential legal battles. It seems MAGA extremists are making threats to their families and their own lives. Their home states can/should step up and provide better security detail to help alleviate that fear…

My autistic kid just paid her taxes.

How exactly does he think he will find out whether or what toxin is at fault this when the Federal government is making massive cuts to science funding?

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Data Basin | Conservation Biology Institute (Powered by Donorbox)

Many @climate.noaa.gov datasets are slated for “decommission” in the coming days. @consbio.bsky.social has ~90 volunteers helping save this and other government climate data to load into our open data platform, databasin.org You can support our efforts with a small donation: donorbox.org/data-basin

NSF scraps most outside advisory panels Science agency will no longer get the community’s advice on programs ranging from biology to international activities

In response to President Donald Trump’s campaign to shrink the federal government, the National Science Foundation has abolished its chief mechanism for getting the scientific community’s input on its programs. scim.ag/42sQ9YJ

A selfie of the post’s author sitting in a gazebo with her laptop and a light purple blooming lilac behind her.

When it is 70 degrees and sunny outside and your lilac is in full bloom… the laptop and the work needs to move to the back yard!

Grievances 16-19 in Declaration of Independence
16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world"
17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent"
18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial"
19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"