In a week starts the 5th ECCB (European Congress of Conservation Biology) in Jyväskylä, Finland. The theme of this year's congress is planetary wellbeing – a concept that captures the wellbeing of people as well as the integrity and sustainability of Earth's ecosystems. I will be presenting a poster entitled Historical baselines of South African megafauna distribution, in which I present preliminary results on the spatio-temporal patterns of range contraction and species diversity loss for large mammal species in post-colonial South Africa. If you want to learn more about the topic and happen to be in Jyväskylä next week, come meet me at the poster session! Or if you don't have plans to go to Finland, you can still contact me by email or on Twitter.
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This news post introduces our recent paper published in Biological Conservation, “Charismatic species of the past: Biases in reporting of large mammals in historical written sources”, available via this link: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1W-581R~eAqLB. I recently visited the Kruger National Park for a short holiday with my partner and family-in-law. It was our first time in the park and it did not disappoint. We were lucky to see a pride of lions and a group of hyaenas in a night drive, surprise a pack of wild dogs in the middle of their nap and even catch a glimpse of a leopard making its way through the high grass. My point is that the account of the sightings I made during the trip is highly biased. |
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