Bibek Raj Shrestha

Good-bye Jane!

02.10.2025 04:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Killer in the nest: how young storks are being strangled by plastic Researchers in Europe found everyday plastics, especially farmers’ baler twine, being used by the birds as a building material and entangling their young. It is a problem that affects other species to...

We found that plastic materials left in the environment are carried by white storks to their nests and then cause chick mortality due to entanglements www.theguardian.com/environment/... link to paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ueaenv.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social

14.07.2025 09:57 — 👍 10    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Meet Kerala’s ‘rainforest gardeners’ creating a Noah’s ark for endangered plants In one of the world’s ‘hottest hotspots’ of biodiversity, an all-female team have turned a patch of forest into a haven for orchids, ferns, succulents and carnivorous plants

NEW: For The Guardian, I spent a week in Kerala few weeks ago, for a story on a special place where a bunch indigenous and local women are cultivating and preserving rare and endemic wild plant species in one of the world's hottest biodiversity hotspots!

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

06.07.2025 07:02 — 👍 25    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0

If you are a domestic student interested in working on insect migration/conservation or citizen science @monashbiol.bsky.social, please reach out ASAP. The domestic round deadline is May 31st. You can find more about our research interests here. shawanchowdhury.com.

14.05.2025 01:28 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

A house sparrow sits on a log with a blurred green background

Conservation efforts could more effectively identify bird species at greatest risk from climate change by better understanding the range of conditions they need to thrive, says a new UEA-led study.🐦🌦️

Read more: www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/a...

#UEAResearch #Birddeclines #ClimateChange

10.04.2025 10:52 — 👍 19    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 1

🐅💥🚗 Global Roadkill Data 🌍🐾

🔹 208,570 roadkill records 📈
🔹 54 countries 🌍
🔹 53 years of records (1971–2024)

Our paper on the global dataset of wildlife-vehicle collisions is out in Scientific Data!

🔗 nature.com/articles/s41597-024-04207-x

@ueaenv.bsky.social

31.03.2025 22:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

CEEC Rebellion has kicked off!!

1.5 days of exciting talks and plenary sessions!!

@ueaceec.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @aldinafranco.bsky.social

19.03.2025 09:58 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

stone sculpture of the Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda

Great news - the Art Institute of Chicago today announced it will return this gorgeous 11/12th century sculpture of the Buddha in meditation, sheltered by the serpent king Muchalinda, to Nepal!

Bad news - well... everything else? Let me take you on a lil' journey.

03.03.2025 19:10 — 👍 459    🔁 105    💬 2    📌 8

I met THE Jane in Kathmandu 😲 @janegoodall.org

14.12.2024 01:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

westwardly

28.11.2024 17:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0