Wisse van Engelen
@wissevanengelen.bsky.social
PhD researcher at University of Cologne & University of Twente | Studying wildlife conservation & disease control in Botswana
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🦇There is a good description of the probiotic project and some of the other approaches being tested to help combat white-nose syndrome in bats here:
www.fws.gov/story/preven...
www.fws.gov/story/preven...
Preventing and treating white-nose syndrome | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
In the depths of winter, bats across North America are waking from hibernation dangerously early, plagued with a disease that’s killing millions of their peers. White-nose syndrome, caused by the fung...
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November 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
🦇There is a good description of the probiotic project and some of the other approaches being tested to help combat white-nose syndrome in bats here:
www.fws.gov/story/preven...
www.fws.gov/story/preven...
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Call for papers!
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
November 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Call for papers!
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
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Very happy to present my research in Leipzig at the GlobeColloquium, this Wednesday!
In this week's #GlobeColloquium, @samuelcoghe.bsky.social explores the history of cattle farming in Africa: How did colonial intervention, capitalist exploitation, and scientific practices change traditional livestock farming, give rise to new conflicts, and shape global economic interdependencies?
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Very happy to present my research in Leipzig at the GlobeColloquium, this Wednesday!
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Call PhD Proposals related to Political Ecologies of Conservation, Infectious Animal and Zoonotic Diseases, One Health, and Wildlife Trade
#politicalecology #humanenvironmentgeography
Please share and pass on to potentially interested people.
@pollenetwork.bsky.social
@findaphd.bsky.social
#politicalecology #humanenvironmentgeography
Please share and pass on to potentially interested people.
@pollenetwork.bsky.social
@findaphd.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Call PhD Proposals related to Political Ecologies of Conservation, Infectious Animal and Zoonotic Diseases, One Health, and Wildlife Trade
#politicalecology #humanenvironmentgeography
Please share and pass on to potentially interested people.
@pollenetwork.bsky.social
@findaphd.bsky.social
#politicalecology #humanenvironmentgeography
Please share and pass on to potentially interested people.
@pollenetwork.bsky.social
@findaphd.bsky.social
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Bryant and Katya are both biologists working in remote landscapes altered by logging, trying to understand species. Both look at species that seem adaptable: marmots colonizing clear-cuts, eagles still nesting in logged forests. Their work is hands-on, intimate.
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Eagles, Marmots, Humans: Knowing Wildlife Through Fieldwork - Springs
The work of two biologists in remote forests shows that species recovery depends on both data and human-animal bonds forged in the field.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Bryant and Katya are both biologists working in remote landscapes altered by logging, trying to understand species. Both look at species that seem adaptable: marmots colonizing clear-cuts, eagles still nesting in logged forests. Their work is hands-on, intimate.
springs-rcc.org/eagles-marmo...
springs-rcc.org/eagles-marmo...
First article from my PhD is out!
‘Provincialising Foot-and-Mouth Disease: The Construction of the African Buffalo as Disease Reservoir in Botswana, 1961–1976’, with Andreas Weber and @estherturnhout.bsky.social
‘Provincialising Foot-and-Mouth Disease: The Construction of the African Buffalo as Disease Reservoir in Botswana, 1961–1976’, with Andreas Weber and @estherturnhout.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
First article from my PhD is out!
‘Provincialising Foot-and-Mouth Disease: The Construction of the African Buffalo as Disease Reservoir in Botswana, 1961–1976’, with Andreas Weber and @estherturnhout.bsky.social
‘Provincialising Foot-and-Mouth Disease: The Construction of the African Buffalo as Disease Reservoir in Botswana, 1961–1976’, with Andreas Weber and @estherturnhout.bsky.social
Crucially the motion notes that it “does not apply to recreational or tourist hunting” - a practice that exactly targets older animals
the IUCN have passed the Longevity Conservation motion put forward to them by @kellerfish.bsky.social and @pili-scotland.bsky.social and based on the paper we wrote on the value of older individuals in animal societies.
www.cdu.edu.au/news/global-...
www.cdu.edu.au/news/global-...
Global body adopts policy to protect Earth’s old, wise and large animals | Charles Darwin University
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has recognised Charles Darwin University-led research into the Earth’s oldest animals with the adoption of the ‘Longevity Conservation’ global...
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October 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Crucially the motion notes that it “does not apply to recreational or tourist hunting” - a practice that exactly targets older animals
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www.kth.se/anthropocene... I am looking forward to the new journal #AnthropoceneHistory starting with a double issue to be launched in October 2026
@iceho.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social
@carsoncenter.bsky.social
@austhistassoc.bsky.social
@aehhub.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social
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@carsoncenter.bsky.social
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New journal: Anthropocene History | KTH
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October 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
www.kth.se/anthropocene... I am looking forward to the new journal #AnthropoceneHistory starting with a double issue to be launched in October 2026
@iceho.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social
@carsoncenter.bsky.social
@austhistassoc.bsky.social
@aehhub.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social
@iceho.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social
@carsoncenter.bsky.social
@austhistassoc.bsky.social
@aehhub.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social
Thesis cover in the making… by the wonderful Becky Arrendondo www.instagram.com/stories/becc...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Thesis cover in the making… by the wonderful Becky Arrendondo www.instagram.com/stories/becc...
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We are very happy to announce our new online lecture series 'Livestock Histories: Regional and Global Perspectives'. The first lecture will be next week, where Steven Van Wolputte will be talking about cattle, microbes and veterinarians as entangled life forms in the history of Northern Namibia.
October 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
We are very happy to announce our new online lecture series 'Livestock Histories: Regional and Global Perspectives'. The first lecture will be next week, where Steven Van Wolputte will be talking about cattle, microbes and veterinarians as entangled life forms in the history of Northern Namibia.
One thing that has surprised me (in a bad way) as someone new to publishing is how terrible the copy-editing service of scientific journals is. Without tracking the changes they just modify your text, and instead of improving it they introduce errors. You’d think proper copy-editing is the minimum
September 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
One thing that has surprised me (in a bad way) as someone new to publishing is how terrible the copy-editing service of scientific journals is. Without tracking the changes they just modify your text, and instead of improving it they introduce errors. You’d think proper copy-editing is the minimum
Although it has a bad headline, this article covers a very interesting issue: the controversial promotion of regenerative grazing by international conservation organizations
news.mongabay.com/2025/08/will...
news.mongabay.com/2025/08/will...
Will we still eat beef in 50 years?
When drought became a perennial visitor to the Beatty Canyon Ranch in Colorado in the late 1990s, Steve Wooten remembers telling his family, “We got to do something different.” Between 1997 and 2003, ...
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September 14, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Although it has a bad headline, this article covers a very interesting issue: the controversial promotion of regenerative grazing by international conservation organizations
news.mongabay.com/2025/08/will...
news.mongabay.com/2025/08/will...
A huge environmental disaster has taken place (perhaps the biggest tailings dam catastrophe ever?) and we are not supposed to know about it www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...
A Chinese mining company is accused of covering up the extent of a major toxic spill in Zambia
The spill happened in February when part of a dam that held waste from the Sino-Metals Leach Zambia copper mine collapsed.
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September 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM
A huge environmental disaster has taken place (perhaps the biggest tailings dam catastrophe ever?) and we are not supposed to know about it www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...
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As someone whose research touches on pinniped health, this is really concerning...
Until recently, rabies had never been seen in marine mammals.
Rabies at sea
Scientists are trying to determine whether rabies is now established in South Africa’s Cape fur seals.
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July 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
As someone whose research touches on pinniped health, this is really concerning...
“both the human and slime mould cases illustrate how memory can become decoupled from individual learning, instead becoming accessible to others through environmental structures.”
Interesting essay on what might be called ‘more-than-human mnemonic infrastructures’
Interesting essay on what might be called ‘more-than-human mnemonic infrastructures’
What can slime moulds teach us about biological memory? Quite a bit, it turns out. Matthew Sims (@philosobio.bsky.social) dives into this question in a wonderfully engaging piece for @aeon.co. Give it a read—before it slips your mind! 👇 aeon.co/essays/what-... #HPS #philsky #HPbio #evobio #neurosky
What can slime mould teach us about biological memory? | Aeon Essays
Certain slime moulds can make decisions, solve mazes and remember things. What can we learn from the blob?
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July 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
“both the human and slime mould cases illustrate how memory can become decoupled from individual learning, instead becoming accessible to others through environmental structures.”
Interesting essay on what might be called ‘more-than-human mnemonic infrastructures’
Interesting essay on what might be called ‘more-than-human mnemonic infrastructures’
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'Transforming governance through non-human animal representation': an extremely interesting PhD position at Radboud University in the Netherlands.
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PhD Position: Transforming Governance through Non-Human Animal Representation | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a PhD Position: Transforming Governance through Non-Human Animal Representation at the Nijmegen School of Management? Check our vacancy!
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June 12, 2025 at 8:53 AM
'Transforming governance through non-human animal representation': an extremely interesting PhD position at Radboud University in the Netherlands.
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
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We're on a roll and have another research seminar coming up in a couple of days - Larissa Fleischmann will share her research on the 'Postcolonial Borders of Animal Health: Veterinary Fencing in Germany and Namibia'. Register below :)
June 2, 2025 at 9:16 AM
We're on a roll and have another research seminar coming up in a couple of days - Larissa Fleischmann will share her research on the 'Postcolonial Borders of Animal Health: Veterinary Fencing in Germany and Namibia'. Register below :)
In case you missed these: some great papers appeared in the last few days that address the relation between monetary wealth and environmental degradation/protection 🧵👇
May 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
In case you missed these: some great papers appeared in the last few days that address the relation between monetary wealth and environmental degradation/protection 🧵👇
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New post on our Rewilding Blog! In this one, Pierre du Plessis and I explore Botswana and its foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) 'red zone' as two layers of a European shadow ecology:
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Shadows within shadows: the environmental injustices of Botswana’s red zone - Rewilding the Anthropocene
By Wisse van Engelen and Pierre du Plessis
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March 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
New post on our Rewilding Blog! In this one, Pierre du Plessis and I explore Botswana and its foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) 'red zone' as two layers of a European shadow ecology:
rewilding.de/shadows-with...
rewilding.de/shadows-with...
New post on our Rewilding Blog! In this one, Pierre du Plessis and I explore Botswana and its foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) 'red zone' as two layers of a European shadow ecology:
rewilding.de/shadows-with...
rewilding.de/shadows-with...
Shadows within shadows: the environmental injustices of Botswana’s red zone - Rewilding the Anthropocene
By Wisse van Engelen and Pierre du Plessis
rewilding.de
March 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
New post on our Rewilding Blog! In this one, Pierre du Plessis and I explore Botswana and its foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) 'red zone' as two layers of a European shadow ecology:
rewilding.de/shadows-with...
rewilding.de/shadows-with...
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This one has been a long time coming, but it’s finally here: my first academic paper as first author. @annetpauwelussen.bsky.social, @estherturnhout.bsky.social and I explore how conservation-tourism partnerships are neither win-win nor win-lose situations: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Practices of Coordination in a Conservation–Tourism Partnership in South Africa - Wisse Van Engelen, Annet Pauwelussen, Esther Turnhout, 2025
Conservation–tourism partnerships are often promoted as win–win solutions to the twin problems of underfunded conservation and unsustainable development. Critic...
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March 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This one has been a long time coming, but it’s finally here: my first academic paper as first author. @annetpauwelussen.bsky.social, @estherturnhout.bsky.social and I explore how conservation-tourism partnerships are neither win-win nor win-lose situations: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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New book! Bernard C. Moore & I explore how African farmers in Namibia navigated colonialism & apartheid to remain on their ancestral land. Now, they face new threats —from billionaires, conservationists & carbon financiers. Download free: brill.com/display/titl...! #envhist #conservation #envhum
Space is the Ultimate Luxury
"Space is the Ultimate Luxury" published on 24 Mar 2025 by Brill.
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March 27, 2025 at 8:40 AM
New book! Bernard C. Moore & I explore how African farmers in Namibia navigated colonialism & apartheid to remain on their ancestral land. Now, they face new threats —from billionaires, conservationists & carbon financiers. Download free: brill.com/display/titl...! #envhist #conservation #envhum
This one has been a long time coming, but it’s finally here: my first academic paper as first author. @annetpauwelussen.bsky.social, @estherturnhout.bsky.social and I explore how conservation-tourism partnerships are neither win-win nor win-lose situations: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Practices of Coordination in a Conservation–Tourism Partnership in South Africa - Wisse Van Engelen, Annet Pauwelussen, Esther Turnhout, 2025
Conservation–tourism partnerships are often promoted as win–win solutions to the twin problems of underfunded conservation and unsustainable development. Critic...
journals.sagepub.com
March 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This one has been a long time coming, but it’s finally here: my first academic paper as first author. @annetpauwelussen.bsky.social, @estherturnhout.bsky.social and I explore how conservation-tourism partnerships are neither win-win nor win-lose situations: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Cool photo project on animals and infrastructure. I find especially the photo series of the ecoducts beautiful
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On the ground among the animals — Marina Caneve
On the ground among the animals 2015-2024 On the ground among the animals is a research based artistic project exploring the possibility of a “visual...
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March 14, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Cool photo project on animals and infrastructure. I find especially the photo series of the ecoducts beautiful
marinacaneve.com/On-the-groun...
marinacaneve.com/On-the-groun...