Brent A. Mitchell

IUCN World Conservation Congress A once-every-four-years gathering of nature conservation experts, leaders and decision-makers from around the world

Today is the last day to register at the early bird rate for the IUCN World Conservation Congress. October 2025, Abu Dhabi

iucncongress2025.org

IUCN WCPA Technical Note No. 23: Integrating Justice into Restoration Practice Whilst tensions about justice continue to hamper restoration projects, some important lessons have been learned about how best to avoid these problems. In particular, there is strong evidence that hig...

🌱 New piece from DEV colleagues Adrian Martin, Iokine Rodriguez & Neil Dawson:

“Integrating Justice into #Restoration Practice”, a new @iucnwcpa.bsky.social technical note on how inclusive, locally led approaches improve restoration outcomes.

Read it here: iucn.org/resources/ot...

New IUCN WCPA report charts the course for establishing Marine Protected Areas in a changing climate Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) play a vital role in climate resilience by providing natural defences for coastal regions and offering low-stress zones for marine life to adapt. At the same time, MPAs f...

New #IUCN #WCPA report charts the course for establishing #Marine #ProtectedAreas in a changing #climate

iucn.org/story/202507...

Income inequality - we've been there before.

Note this is _annual_ change, the disparity grows worse each year. All major religions teach the importance of helping the poor and needy, inc., esp. Christianity.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social @rbreich.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov

Here's the proof: Republicans are only looking out for their millionaire and billionaire friends – and they're willing to gamble with your lives to pay them off.

June 30, 2025 "This is the most deeply immoral piece of legislation I have ever voted on in my entire time in Congress,” said Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT).

June 30, 2025

The status, threats and conservation of Critically Endangered species - Nature Reviews Biodiversity Species classified as Critically Endangered are at greatest risk of extinction, and their preservation and recovery are crucial to meeting global biodiversity aims. This Review assesses the geographic...

New paper reviewing the world's 10,443 Critically Endangered species: their status, distribution threats and the actions needed for their recovery
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

My Mosquito Buckets of Doom (for larvae). Mosquito fogging kills everything except mosquitoes.
🪣 This bucket does it better, without harming pollinators or people.

Learn how: visit link in bio HomegrownNationalPark.org

#MosquitoBucketChallenge #HomegrownNationalPark

Five things to remember about war:

Trump takes huge gamble putting US at heart of Iran-Israel conflict As well as retaliation against US troops, a president who styled himself as "peacemaker" could face party dissent.

Weapons of Mass Destruction in Irax, Part II

www.bbc.com/news/article...

I read and subscribe to the @theatlantic.com, but have stopped following it here. Too many repetitive posts.

The Latest National Park Order: No “Negative” Information About Past or Living Americans Signs are popping up at NPS sites asking visitors to report any instances of rangers speaking negatively about America. Critics say it’s an attempt to whitewash U.S. history.

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.” – Orwell, 1984
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Hey @cnn.com, sure, war in the Middle East is big news (though hardly new). But you can’t spare a few minutes for Federal crimes in the US?

We've just launched AviList! - the new unified global taxonomic checklist for the world's birds, developed through the Working Group on Avian Classification, including BirdLife, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, IOC and others @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.avilist.org

If you are poor and working hard to make a life for yourself and your family, we'll deport you. (Very roughly.)
But give us $5 million & we'll talk.
Check out the new, official government website for yourself. (And note how the regions are listed. Clearly by order of preference.)
trumpcard.gov

Hitler Used a Bogus Crisis of ‘Public Order’ to Make Himself Dictator Using disorder he had helped manufacture, the chancellor seized control of Bavaria.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Surviving D-Day: 2024 How to get through the fear, anxiety and potential violence of this election

For D-Day, I am returning to a piece I wrote last year after visiting the beaches of Normandy—a reflection on the time Americans and the world came together to defeat fascism, with resonance today.

brentamitchell.medium.com/surviving-d-...

The next decade will be difficult for #nature #conservation. In a new editorial in @oryxthejournal.bsky.social, we suggest a range of things we can do to rebuild support and challenge #post-truth politics. Led by Nigel Dudley, the piece reminds us that we must not abandon hope.

go.shr.lc/3YM3J8I

The five biggest challenges facing misinformation researchers The burgeoning field is still grappling with fundamental problems, from getting access to data to defining 'misinformation' in the first place

Gosh, I miss reality.

[Attorney General] Bondi went on to claim that Trump’s efforts to crack down on fentanyl had already saved—“are you ready for this, media? 258 million lives.”

There are roughly 340 million people in America.

- from The Bulwark

www.science.org/content/arti...

Judge Wilkinson's order is a fresh & firm reminder of how and why separation of powers should work. This (Republican) judge is highly respected by the "conservative" SCOTUS majority. 6 pages, double-spaced. Read it for yourself "while there is still time."

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Harvard will fight Trump administration demands over funding Harvard President Alan Garber wrote in a public letter on Monday that Harvard had received demands from the federal Department of Education that threaten "our values as a private institution devoted to the pursuit, production, and dissemination of knowledge."

Speaking veritas to power.

www.reuters.com/world/us/har...

Great opportunities for new professionals: internships with the Protected and Conserved Areas team at the Convention on Biological Diversity. #ProtectedAreas @iucnwcpa.bsky.social #biodiversity #30x30

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154 million lives and counting: 5 charts reveal the power of vaccines - a timely news explainer/reminder by @heidiledford.bsky.social

@nature.com
🧪 #MedSky

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#IUCN “WCPA meets a spectrum of needs, providing the most current science-based knowledge and information on the one hand, and ensuring effective implementation on the other.”

Our 2024 Impact Report is out!
portals.iucn.org/library/node...
#nature #conservation

Americans filled the streets yesterday in protests across the country. @nytimes.com, how was this not front page news in the print edition, and not at all in the web edition?
NB: The protests were nonviolent.

The promise and compromise of the WHO Pandemic Agreement for spillover prevention and One Health As scientists, health professionals, and lawyers engaged in reducing pandemic spillover risks, we recognise the urgent need for, and immense potential of, a robust international agreement on pandemic ...

Happy to share our new @thelancet.bsky.social comment exploring the challenges and opportunities for prevention and #OneHealth in the WHO #PandemicAgreement, including solutions grounded in the text to overcome outstanding gaps in the final stages of the negotiations. bit.ly/3E7RKeu

Celebrating the US National Parks and their stewards For the past 150 years, the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) has set the standard for conservation, ensuring the protection of landscapes across the country for the benefit of local communities, visit...

Our expression of support for colleagues in US Federal service to the American people and to nature (national parks, national monuments, national fish and wildlife reserves, national marine sanctuaries, and more) is now available on iucn.org/story/202503...

From @mcfaulmike.bsky.social

This week's @nature.com editorial
www.nature.com/articles/d41...