@sarobidyrakoto.bsky.social
interdisciplinary social scientist, Malagasy, mum of two. https://mitsilo.org/
A big shout out also to ConserFashion for the beautiful & colourful vest that I wore for such a special day! ❤️ and my fantastic team at the Mitsilo research group.
10.04.2025 13:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It was truly moving to share my perspectives with such passionate, engaged and incredibly diverse early career scholars from 45 countries, Their enthusiasm and questions filled me with hope. I’m really grateful to the organizers and attendees for the opportunity.
10.04.2025 13:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🤱 I also briefly touched on the real struggle of balancing motherhood and academia. My research often means long fieldwork trips. I vividly recall when my firstborn was just 7 months old in the UK, and I had to go to Gabon for two months. My incredible husband, Patrick, got me through it.7/n
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🔖 This has led me to social and interdisciplinary science. I am most fascinated by how global schemes impact local land decisions and i deeply care about fairness: who benefits, who pays, do local people have a voice, and how important are their land rights?
10.04.2025 13:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0🌏 While global schemes like REDD+ hold immense promise for biodiversity and poverty reduction, the mechanics of how to do it is very complex. This became my turning point, leading me to research the key knowledge gaps for truly transformative conservation in linked social-ecological systems. 5/n
10.04.2025 13:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
⁉️ When I'd explain what I was up to with those trees and soil to villagers, they'd ask these hopeful questions, like, "So, are you saying we might actually get richer from the clean air our forests make?". That really hit me. 4/n
10.04.2025 13:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🌳 🪵 I took the audience all the way back to 2009, when I was a young, enthusiastic ecologist getting my hands dirty in Madagascar's rainforests for my Master's. I was literally chopping down trees, separating them into bits, weighing everything. All to get a handle on carbon stocks.
10.04.2025 13:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0👉 In my talk “Making 30x30 work for people and nature: A personal journey in applied conservation research”, I used our recent piece in www.nature.com/articles/s44... to walk participants through my career, sharing the key lessons I've picked up along the way. 2/n
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✨ Such an honour to have given the plenary talk at the student conference on conservation science in Cambridge last week. Giving the plenary in memory of the brilliant and deeply missed Professor Georgina Mace was an immense privilege. #SCCS2025 @sccs2025.bsky.social 1/n
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