It nicely illustrates one of the dilemmas of species recovery that @ericavonessen.bsky.social and I were discussing here 👉 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What he said 👆

Go "Chunk"!! 🐻

Thanks Silvia!

Sure, just ping me an email

Good, not ”god”, although he may also be involve I guess 🤦‍♀️😅

Congratulations! So well-deserved 👏

Sounds cool David. To be sure, while the headline of the Guardian article questions whether we can coexist with carnivores, our paper is actually more about finding local solutions to coexistence, working with local knowledge holders to do so. Sounds like you're doing it well over there.

And press release from @york.ac.uk and @anthropocenebio.bsky.social here 👉 www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

An article based on it in @theguardian.com here 👉 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

TLDR? You can find a short and snappy Plain language summary here 👉 relationalthinkingblog.com/2025/02/03/p...

Whether it concerns carnivores, pastures, fisheries or forests, the key to success is to build on local stewardship and skills, adapting system management in ways that make sense to local people and that enable continuous adaptation and innovation in the face of change. @ipbes.net #CBD

We show that ‘localness’ is always in flux and should not be seen as either or. Similarly, TEK is continuously evolving. I.e.: it's complex. But fear not! Our paper helps illuminate the locals with the deepest connection and contribution to the bio-cultural system, i.e. local system #stewards

Yet when it comes to sharing space with #largecarnivores 🐺🐻 in Europe and elsewhere, #TEK is essential to understand the behaviour, influence and interactions of people, livestock and carnivores at fine spatial scales, thus finding ways to #coexist and manage conflicts (GBF target 4).

We, researchers who work on human-wildlife interactions, pastoral systems, governance and/or ethnobotany, note that this lack of clarity on who is local has meant that traditional local knowledge #TEK is often overlooked and marginalised, considered "anecdotal" or as beliefs and opinions.

It follows from our observations that while Indigenous Peoples (approx 6% of the global pop.) have, encouragingly, gained increasing rights and recognition, Local Communities (up to 45%) have generally not. This is because the term could include almost anyone.

In our paper, out now within the @peopleandnature.bsky.social SI “Sharing landscapes with wildlife: conflict and coexistence of extensive grazing systems with large carnivores”, we use examples from Europe to advance the debate on how LK may be recognised and treated more justly.