🦇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...

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...

One episode that we describe in the article is about the so-called ‘buffalo exercises’, during which veterinarians darted and tested nearly 1000 buffaloes for FMD. Interestingly, I recently found out that this operation was also aired on TV and now is available on YT: youtu.be/aEpa6VWNTCg?...

Based on research in the Botswana National Archives, we point to the ways that Britain exerted influence on veterinarians in Botswana, while conversely there was - and still is - little attention to the ways in which Botswana and its wildlife is to be accommodated in international FMD control policy

In this article we complement existing histories of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) science with a perspective from Botswana, where colonial and postcolonial veterinarians dealt not just with livestock but also wildlife

I could have been clearer. I actually applaud the initiative and wish there was a more powerful lobby for it to take on the hunting lobby

I’m sorry I didnt mean this to be an attack on you or any of the initiators of the motion; it was just a comment on the final motion for people who read the headline but not the motion itself

Perhaps @ark-rewildingnl.bsky.social knows?

@annetpauwelussen.bsky.social perhaps relevant for Ocean Nexus :)

You really need to thoroughly check your text after they return it to you. Just now I discovered that they introduced an error in the concluding sentence of our paper…

In some cases cattle farming is a key vehicle of colonization and conservation can become complicit by greenwashing it. In other cases anti-cattle sentiment has been exactly what has made conservation colonial. Regional histories are crucial to consider

I think we should be careful in examining how these discourses are mobilized. There is a big difference between supporting the livelihoods of transhumant pastoralists in Eastern Africa and greenwashing the activities of large-scale settler ranchers in the Midwest

The interest in regenerative grazings seems to draw on varied discourses, incl. neoliberal conservation (conservation should be profitable), community-based conservation (should be done by landowners) and rewilding (should be done through grazing)