🦅 We are delighted to welcome the @rspb.bsky.social as an Evidence Champion!

Evidence Champions formally commit to using scientific evidence in how they decide what to do for nature.

More on Evidence Champions: www.conservationevidence.com/content/page...

New Conservation Evidence Journal article bit.ly/4wDkReM: wire-mesh nest predator exclosures increased Hudson’s canastero (Asthenes hudsoni) nest survival to 57%, vs. 4.5% without exclosures. A promising tool for balancing cattle production and conservation in the Pampas.

What is the impact of removing feral cats from an island? A new Conservation Evidence Journal bit.ly/3TGivhp case study from the Persian Gulf reports a rapid shift in clutch size distribution of white-cheeked terns.

🦊Red foxes threaten ground-nesting birds. Researchers from Deakin and Bird Life Australia tested whether dog urine could protect the nests of ground-nesting birds. Unfortunately, it neither reduced fox visits nor improved egg survival. Read in the conservation evidence journal: bit.ly/3Tzs6q8

🆕 Check out our latest synopsis: global evidence for the effects of interventions to conserve vegetation🌿 in inland aquatic habitats💧

>500 summaries, >370 publications, >200 actions

Interactive version: conservationevidence.com/data/index?s...

PDF version: conservationevidence.com/synopsis/pdf...

🐍 Don't let this eel research slip past you! A decade after 4 million young eels were released into Lake Ontario, a new paper in the Conservation Evidence Journal finds they're still surviving and growing, and locks are helping them bypass "impassable" dams.
bit.ly/3NjAKGn

Our 2026 Horizon Scan is out. 15 emerging issues for conservation — from TinyML transforming wildlife monitoring to weight-loss drugs reshaping land use to mirror biomolecules that don't exist in nature.

We also revisited 2016. One prediction? "Artificial superintelligence." 😅

Weir removal is a positive step in rewilding urban rivers. A research paper by Don Catchment Rivers Trust, co-designed with volunteer citizen scientists, has demonstrated improved river health upstream of a weir removal, through the study of freshwater invertebrate indicators.

Link bit.ly/4o8KrVv

A fascinating new study from Perkins et al. @rspbscotland.bsky.social (published in Conservation Evidence Journal) reveals that autumn-sown 'green manure' crops are doing just that, supporting breeding corn buntings alongside other benefits for farmers! 🌱 🪶

➡️ Read the full story: bit.ly/46mGgPT

🚨UK's Voluntary Shift from Lead Shot in Pheasant Hunting Fails🚨

The SHOT-SWITCH research project reveals that despite commitments from UK shooting organizations in 2020 to transition away from lead ammunition by 2025, 99% of wild pheasants are STILL being shot with lead.

Paper in Conservation Evidence Journal bit.ly/3EXXR5g finds Trico deer repellent spray is effective at reducing deer browsing of hazel coppice with significantly fewer visible signs of browsing and significantly higher average re-growth for sprayed coppice than for an unsprayed control.

Hello!

With a group of @cambridgeuni.bsky.social students we are exploring the development of a tool to help create and evaluate Biodiversity Net Gain management plans to help people find the evidence they need to make these effective and deliverable. We want to know what you think!

📢 New research shows at the end of a five year voluntary transition from lead to non-lead shotgun ammunition ...

ALL red grouse tested contained lead shot ❗

➡️ Paper by Green et al. in the Conservation Evidence Journal bit.ly/40MS6hR finds.

Excited to share the new Conservation Evidence Toolkit!
A guide to a collection of tools 🛠️ and resources 📃for embedding evidence in conservation and improving practice. Tools were co-designed with practitioners, funders, policymakers.
Download here: tinyurl.com/CEevidencetool

How can we ensure that businesses engaging with biodiversity actually deliver for nature? 🤔

Our new blog post by Dr Tom White argues that we need evidence-based action to achieve this. 💪
tinyurl.com/CEBlogCE