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Aoife K Pitts
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Environmental anthropologist, ethnobotanist, PhD Candidate @ UGA Anthropology and Integrative Conservation. NSF GRFP Fellow
📍Amazonas, Colombia
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I have co-organized a panel with my dear friend and colleague Youyi Xie for the American Anthropological Association meeting this week. Our panel focuses on agrifood systems and explores how Indigenous peoples and local communities across Latin America are navigating socioecological change. (1/3)
November 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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In my happy place with dozens of Passiflora at the Jardín Botánico de Bogotá yesterday!
November 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Insane
irishrainforest.bsky.social Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 5d
More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists granted access to the Cop30 climate negotiations in Belém (Brazil), 12% up from last year’s talks in Baku, Azerbaijan.

What should be the most serious, urgent talks on the planet continue to be a farce.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Genus Espletia, commonly know as Frailejónes. Perhaps the plant most known and associated with the paramos of Colombia. (Pic 3 is the plants’ view of Bogotá)
November 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Ireland too!!!
guyshrubsole.bsky.social Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 14d
As the PM heads to the Amazon for COP30, remember that Britain is also a rainforest nation.

UK Ministers must support Brazil's plans to save the world's tropical rainforests. They must also set a goal to restore Britain's own lost temperate rainforests:

lostrainforestsofbritain.org/2025/11/05/a...
As the PM heads to the Amazon, remember that Britain is a rainforest nation
On Thursday, the Prime Minister will arrive in the Amazon rainforest for the COP30 climate talks, hosted this year by Brazil. As Keir Starmer composes his speech, he should remember that Britain, t…
lostrainforestsofbritain.org
November 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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🌾On #WorldFoodDay, we join @fao.org in calling for food systems that work with nature, not against it.

“The #KMGBF cannot be achieved without a global push for sustainable agrifood systems.” @astridschomaker.bsky.social

🤝 Let's grow a better future for all!

🔗 www.cbd.int/article/2025...
October 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Acacia baileyana is common in my new Bogotá neighborhood. It’s always interesting seeing how cities landscape certain neighborhoods, and I never feel settled or at home until I know who my plant neighbors are!
October 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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hannahdaly.ie Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · Oct 10
The full quote as reported:

“I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change,” he said.
“This might be controversial, because I believe in addressing climate change....
joenoonan.bsky.social Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · Oct 9
“I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change.”

- Mícheál Martin, Taoiseach.

www.independent.ie/business/tec...
October 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Passiflora tarminiana on the streets of Bogotá. Passiflora never cease to amaze me—one of my favorite genera for sure!
October 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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(1/2) As a kid poring over jars of bugs and my parents’ old NatGeo copies, Jane Goodall showed me that a career in science as a woman was possible. I remember spending weeks on a “role model” school project about Jane when I was 10.
unep.org UN Environment Programme @unep.org · Oct 1
We are deeply saddened by the passing of UN Messenger of Peace Dr. Jane Goodall.

Her life’s work championing conservation, humanity and the natural world leaves an enduring legacy.

Our condolences to her family, the Jane Goodall Institute and all who draw hope from her example.
October 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Dietes bicolor on the streets of Bogotá! (cultivated)
September 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Not a bad work from home view!
(Bogotá, Colombia)
September 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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PRESS RELEASE: Forty Years of Inaction Killing Lady’s Island Lake

@irishtimes.com @news.rte.ie @irishexaminer.bsky.social @thejournal.ie @irishrainforest.bsky.social @thinkorswim.bsky.social @whittledaway.bsky.social @padraigbyrne.bsky.social @independent.ie

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Image of algal bloom on Lady's Island Lake from July this year and text of press release, reading: Over forty years after local media first reported on pollution in Lady’s Island Lake, the situation has deteriorated even further and immediate action is required to prevent the imminent death of the lake. On 24 June 1983 The People (Wexford) reported that the lake was “almost a cess pool” and that the amenity was “being shamelessly destroyed by pollution”. Jim Hurley from South Wexford Coast Promotions, addressed a well attended public meeting in Lady’s Island Community Centre on 24 July 2025 outlining the current dire situation at Lady’s Island Lake. Mr Hurley spoke about twelve pollution reports commissioned by Wexford County Council following the 1983 press coverage covering the period 1984-2006. The 1984 report found that the lake was polluted and that several of the twelve feeder streams were polluted, two of them badly. Continued text of press release reading: Further monitoring was conducted and a further ten reports were published between 1990 and 2006. Several of these reports contained recommendations of the specific actions required to improve water quality in the lake and its feeder streams. Wexford County Council ceased commissioning reports in 2006. In 2019 the EPA commissioned the most recent report, published 9 Jan 2025. This report found a significant deterioration in the quality of the water since the 1980s “due to excessive inputs of nitrogen and phosphorus from agriculture” (CLEAR, xi). The CLEAR report recommends “reducing the use of imported nitrogen on farmland, increasing measures designed to retain nutrients on farmland and forestry”, which will prevent the nitrogen reaching the lake, “removing or capping nutrient-rich bottom sediments” from the bottom of the lake, and “maintaining or restoring the salinity regime” of the lake (CLEAR, 49). An EPA summary of the report states clearly that “the results of our research show that no improvement in the lake’s ecology will be possible without a large reduction in nutrient run-off from land. Some amelioration may be possible by protecting the lake shoreline by tree planting, the use of artificial wetlands and the removal of nutrient rich sediments. Inevitably, society must address the conflict between the overuse of nutrients such as nitrogen and the impact this is having on our water resources”. Save Lady’s Island Lake campaign group spokesperson Peadar McDonald states that “forty years of inaction is too much and we are almost out of time to save the lake. Jim addressed a group of concerned citizens last Thursday and outlined the urgency of the matter. This is not a new issue as can be seen via the research done over the past forty years. We are calling on Wexford Co. Council and national bodies responsible for the health of the lake (including regular tests for water pollution) to act now before it is too late.”
July 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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🍛 School meals can do more than feed children: they can reshape food systems! 🌱 Integrating neglected and underutilized species can enhance sustainability, resilience and inclusion, while celebrating cultures. Discover more! 👇 @@GCNFoundation
@usceduau
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July 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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(1/3) In June I traveled to Prague for the annual meeting of the Society for Ethnobotany. This was my first SEB meeting and it was a joy to meet and learn from other interdisciplinary researchers who are not quite entirely botanists, anthropologists, or geographers, but a mix!
July 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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I have been delighted to spend the last few weeks in the University of Georgia herbarium and greenhouses! I've learned how to mount, process and file specimens, and so much more. Now I'm just waiting on a plant from Ireland (or Colombia) to finally cross my desk!
July 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Hi! I am Doreen, a PhD student working on urban adaptation in White Ibises. My studies incorporate genetics, conservation, behavior, and a community science project that involves many passionate birders! Have you seen my tagged ibises? Use the link in bio to report your sighting!
pic:Neelya Eiram
photo of a white ibis standing in a lawn and carrying a yellow wing tag showing the number 055 written in balck
June 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Hi all! I'm Aoife, a plant lover+ PhD candidate in the Anthropology and Integrative Conservation Program at UGA. I work with farmers in the Colombian Amazon to explore synergies between shifting agriculture, livelihoods, and biodiversity conservation.

What's your favorite plant? 🌲
June 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM