George Holmes
@_GeorgeHolmes
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Professor of Conservation and Society at University of Leeds. Biodiversity, protected areas, geography, social impacts of conservation, political ecology, stuff
Leeds
Joined March 2015
RT @BBCNewsnight: "There's a new criminal trend emerging in England - 'beaver bombing'." Newsnight explores trend of vigilantes illegally…
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RT @sicilyfiennes: Today we launch ‘Uncaged Conservation’, an online platform that creatively represents the (sensory) realities of a bird…
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@EJMilnerGulland @UKRI_News @NERCscience @BBSRC also, IIRC, @NatureScot subsidise culling of wild geese on Scottish islands, but carcasses and products can't be taken off-island to be sold, because of regulatory hurdles.
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RT @journalofpolit1: Donfrancesco, V., (2024) “De- and re-peasantization through wolves: A more-than-human political ecology of agrarian ch…
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RT @_HelenaSlater: New paper published: Assessing the breadth and multidisciplinarity of the conservation curriculum in the United Kingdom…
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#pollen24 @YolandaAriadne - in Guyana and Suriname, the colonial legacy on environmental governance is strong. If we are to decolonise, we need to decentre the state, and maybe the answer lies with re-engaging with pre-colonial and maroon ideas of the environment
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#POLLEN24 Benjamin Neimark raises the crucial question of labour relations in conservation and the green transition - who is doing the actual work on the ground, under what conditions, the precarity, risks and opportunities. The conservation working class.
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#POLLEN24 session on 'invisibility' in conservation reminds us on how many experiences of animals are fleeting, ephemeral, temporary yet leave a lasting political impact. e.g. predators move in, kill, move out yet leave livestock losses and angry people.
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RT @mattstruebig: 📢 More @LeverhulmeTrust scholarships @DICE_Kent !! 4 MSc+PhD scholarships available! We want to help UK students from…
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Just for all the people sending me very angry messages, I'm Prof George Holmes from @UniversityLeeds, not Prof George Holmes, vice-chancellor of @BoltonUni.
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RT @SCB_SSWG: Get excited! Here we present the plenary speakers for our Conservation Social Science Conference 2024🥳 Stay tuned for more i…
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@jd_prior @LMU_Muenchen @CarsonCenter Ah yes, forgot about them. The Tayside and River Otter ones are Bavarian, so the majority of British beavers are Bavarian.
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News article on human-beaver coexistence in Tayside, Scotland, and mitigation measures to reduce conflict (weirdly, featuring my dad)
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Great paper in @ConBiology on what 'empowerment' does mean, and should mean, in conservation. Wonderful to see a powerful critique of power and decolonisation in a (largely) natural science journal
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Interesting new paper by @_HelenaSlater which shows the difference between how we OUGHT to train conservationists, and how we ARE training conservationists. In @ConservationSP
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