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Global Goals week presentation by Scott Ford

See Inspire4Nature fellow Scott Ford explaining how his research will inform future conservation policy and allow experts to better assess progress towards protected-area coverage goals !

You can watch below and on our Twitter account his video entitled Protected-area dynamics: Global patterns and implications of changes in protected-area boundaries and designations.

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Presentation: behind-the-scenes at Inspire4Nature, by Pauline Roger

Pauline Roger gave a presentation of the her role as European Project Manager of Inspire4Nature to the MAD team, at our host lab the Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, in Montpellier, France. Aimed at an audience of researchers, her presentation covered the whole project cycle, from building the consortium, to implementation, to reporting. A behind-the-scenes perspective of the many facets of managing a large international consortium!

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Training module: from a scientific paper to the news

As part of Training Session 4 – Theory & practice of communicating at the science-policy interface – Inspire4Nature fellows are now receiving training on how to communicate about scientific results to a broad, non-specialised, audience.

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2nd Inspire4Nature extraordinary Supervisory Board Meeting

The Supervisory Board of Inspire4Nature reconvened for a second extraordinary meeting on the 18th September 2020. Still impossible to meet in person, so again we met online.

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Inspire4Nature fellows presenting their project by joining the Global Goal Weeks

We are happy to annouce that from 21st to 25th September 2020, the Inspire4Nature fellows will join the Global Goal Weeks  – celebrating the 5th anniversary of the Sustainable Development Goals – to showcase their respective projects.

To do so, each one of them will post a short video, presenting their project and highlighting the links with the Sustainable Development Goals and/or the Aichi targets and/or the post2020 Biodiversity framework.

This event is fully online and each day from September 21st to 25th, three of them will post their videos through our Twitter account (@Inspire4Nature).

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New article: Effectiveness of protected areas in conserving tropical forest birds

New article shows protected areas are contributing significantly to the conservation of rare & threatened birds across tropical biodiversity hotspots. Led by Victor Cazalis (University of Montpellier), the study was co-authored by former Inspire4Nature fellow Joseph Kelly and by Inspire4Nature senior scientists Stu Butchart and Ana Rodrigues.
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New article: Deforestation leakage undermines conservation value of tropical and subtropical forest protected areas

Inspire4Nature fellow Scott Ford led a new article entitled Deforestation leakage undermines conservation value of tropical and subtropical forest protected areas, co-authored by senior Inspire4Nature scientists Martin Rudbeck Jepsen, Naomi Kingston, Thomas Brooks, Brian MacSharry and Ole Mertz.

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New article: A global map of terrestrial habitat types

Inspire4Nature fellow Prabhat Raj Dahal, and senior scientists Stuart Butchart, Paul F. Donald and Carlo Rondinini are co-authors of the article entitled A global map of terrestrial habitat types, led by Martin Jung (IIASA).

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New blog post – Cognitive dissonance and conservation: Will our minds subconsciously guide us to the solution?

Scott Ford published a new blog post on the Inspire4Nature fellows’ website Science4Wildlife. You can read here his article entitled Cognitive dissonance and conservation: Will our minds subconsciously guide us to the solution?

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