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The Student Conference on Conservation Science offers bursaries to delegates from lower income countries, which support travel expenses, accommodation and registration.
These bursaries help to make the SCCS the most diverse and inclusive scientific meetings I have ever attended.
Strongly recommended!
Deadline for applications: 6 September.
More info: https://www.sccs-cam.org/about-the-sccs/bursaries-and-internships/
My favourite conference: the next Cambridge Student Conference on Conservation Science will happen 24-26 March. This lovely meeting brings together young researchers (Master & PhD students) and young professionals working in conservation (ecology, genetics, geography, economics, psychology...).
Super stimulating, very highly recommended!
To participate, you need to apply before the 6th September.
More info: https://www.sccs-cam.org/
The honour of giving a talk at SCCS has been further magnified by it being The Georgina Mace Plenary Lecture.
Georgina Mace was a pillar of conservation science, including through her work on developing the criteria underpinning the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. I am also personally indebted to her for the support she gave to my career progression.
Naming a plenary lecture after her is a wonderful tribute by the SCCS.
I am immensely lucky to have attended multiple SCCS (as a PhD student; as a young conservation professional; as a volunteer when I was a postdoc) and can vouch for it being consistently wonderful in the quality of the scientific and human exchanges.
Which is why having given a plenary talk at SCCS this year is one of the highest honours of my career.
Happily attending my favourite scientific meeting: the Student Conference on Conservation Science in Cambridge.
Ongoing since 2000, the SCCS brings together young conservation researchers and professionals from around the world (~60 countries represented each year).
The quality and diversity of the talks never fails to impress me, and the discussions with bright and enthusiastic delegates inspire me to no end.
Very highly recommended!
This paper is an output of the PhD project of João Guilherme, on “Informing conservation of African-Eurasian migratory landbirds, raptors, and storks using tracking data”, just awarded by the Univ Montpellier, that I had the pleasure to co-supervise, with Vicky Jones (BirdLife International) and Inês Catry (Instituto Superior de Agronomia).
The project was part of the EU-funded Inspire4Nature training network.
Congratulations to João!
#MigratoryBirds (thread 7/7)
We hope these data and results will inform discussions under 2 key policy instruments for the conservation of #MigratoryBirds at the flyway scale: the African–Eurasian Migratory Landbirds Action Plan (#AEMLAP) and the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Birds of Prey in Africa and Eurasia (#RaptorsMOU) of the UN Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (#CMS).
(thread 6/7)
https://www.cms.int/
Also check out the impressive dataset released with the paper: A database of migration records between countries established by African-Eurasian migratory landbirds and raptors. Openly available at Zenodo.
#MigratoryBirds (thread 5/7)
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7044192
This database accompanies the study Guilherme et al., 2022 (https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14002). Tracking studies were reviewed to compile migration records of African-Eurasian migratory landbirds and raptors. A migration record corresponds to the connection established by an individual bird as it migrates between a breeding country in Europe and a nonbreeding country in sub-Saharan Africa. Each migration record includes: (i) species; (ii) breeding country (i.e., the country in Europe where the bird was tagged during the breeding season); and (iii) nonbreeding country (i.e., the country in sub-Saharan African where the bird stayed the longest). Data were extracted preferably from text and tables. When not explicitly reported, locations were estimated from the plotted maps (e.g., through density of positions). In cases where it was unclear which of several non-breeding countries should be considered as the most important, the southernmost country was selected. For birds tracked over multiple years, only the first complete migration reported were considered. Individuals whose non-breeding country was not possible to extract were excluded. Also excluded were records whose non-breeding geographical positions (i.e., longitude/latitude) reported in the studies were >1000 km outside of the known nonbreeding range of the species and in a country where the species is not known to occur. Details in Appendices S3 & S4.
Appendix 11 of the paper synthesizes information per species, highlighting for each species the most important countries in the non-breeding grounds. The figure below illustrates this output for Lesser Kestrels.
#MigratoryBirds (thread 4/7)
https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cobi.14002
This paper comes with extensive supplementary materials, including Appendix 10 which synthesizes information per European/African country, highlighting for each country the list of migratory species that create the strongest connections with other countries. The figure below illustrates this output for Angolan’ landbirds and for Spanish raptors.
#MigratoryBirds (thread 3/7)
https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cobi.14002
