@_GeorgeHolmes

Professor of Conservation and Society at University of Leeds. Biodiversity, protected areas, geography, social impacts of conservation, political ecology, stuff

 Leeds
Joined March 2015
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Academic and scientific freedom and censorship are critical issues in biodiversity and conservation research, in all disciplines, but it is rarely discussed. Please share experiences of academic and scientific freedom, and constraints on it in our survey app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk…
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"There's a new criminal trend emerging in England - 'beaver bombing'." Newsnight explores trend of vigilantes illegally releasing beavers into the countryside - and speaks to Derek Gow, a conservationist who says we should "erect statues" to the people responsible. #Newsnight

BBC Newsnight

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Today we launch ‘Uncaged Conservation’, an online platform that creatively represents the (sensory) realities of a bird market in Indonesia. Designed by @sicilyfiennes, Ishaan Patil & @louislugas, with funding from @pardicolorart & Creature Conserve. uncagedconservation.com/
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Donfrancesco, V., (2024) “De- and re-peasantization through wolves: A more-than-human political ecology of agrarian change”, Journal of Political Ecology 31(1), 586–603. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe.5720 @PolEcoNet @VDonfrancesco
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New paper published: Assessing the breadth and multidisciplinarity of the conservation curriculum in the United Kingdom and Australia doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biae0… Thanks to all of the participants and to co-authors @_JanetFisher, @_GeorgeHolmes, @csandbrook and @aidank
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Lectureship in Critical Human Geography with my colleagues over in @SoGLeeds jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.asp…

Jobs at the University of Leeds

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#pollen24 @YolandaAriadne - in Guyana and Suriname, the colonial legacy on environmental governance is strong. If we are to decolonise, we need to decentre the state, and maybe the answer lies with re-engaging with pre-colonial and maroon ideas of the environment
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#POLLEN24 Benjamin Neimark raises the crucial question of labour relations in conservation and the green transition - who is doing the actual work on the ground, under what conditions, the precarity, risks and opportunities. The conservation working class.
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#POLLEN24 session on 'invisibility' in conservation reminds us on how many experiences of animals are fleeting, ephemeral, temporary yet leave a lasting political impact. e.g. predators move in, kill, move out yet leave livestock losses and angry people.
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Just for all the people sending me very angry messages, I'm Prof George Holmes from @UniversityLeeds, not Prof George Holmes, vice-chancellor of @BoltonUni.
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A fun fieldtrip to see urban beaver signs and mitigation measures in Munich, right in the city centre, as part of our conservation humanities discussions at @LMU_Muenchen and @CarsonCenter. Beavers are the new squirrels - rodents that are part of urban parks.
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These Bavarian beavers were a relatively recent reintroduction, and were so successful that they have been the source population for reintroductions all over western and southern Europe. British beavers are all Bavarian.
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News article on human-beaver coexistence in Tayside, Scotland, and mitigation measures to reduce conflict (weirdly, featuring my dad) bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c51n…

Beavers 'capable of bringing down a tree in a night'

A group of volunteers in a Highland Perthshire town are trying to protect trees from beavers.

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Great paper in @ConBiology on what 'empowerment' does mean, and should mean, in conservation. Wonderful to see a powerful critique of power and decolonisation in a (largely) natural science journal conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.c…

The scope of empowerment for conservation and communities

Conservationists increasingly position conservation that is mutually beneficial to people and biodiversity on the promise of empowerment of people through participatory discourse, metrics, processe...

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Interesting new paper by @_HelenaSlater which shows the difference between how we OUGHT to train conservationists, and how we ARE training conservationists. In @ConservationSP conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.c…
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1/7 Forests of Refuge is now officially out in the world! 🥳
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🌱Ecologists and biodiversity specialists – your expertise is needed! Contribute to research on unrecorded forest biodiversity by answering this survey: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk…   This is part of my PhD research at the University of Leeds. I’d be grateful for your input🌳 🧵1/9
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Peregrine reintroduction project in my adopted home city is creating objections from pigeon racing enthusiasts. It's a heady mix of human-wildlife interactions, urban rewilding, reintroductions and angry people in local newspapers thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/n…

'Feral pigeons' will be most likely prey for falcons nesting at Bradford mill

“FERAL pigeons” will be the most likely prey for the peregrine falcons that a new campaign hopes to encourage into Bradford.

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Next time I do a lecture on non-native invasive species, I’m going to use this as a case study
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