Mark Fellowes

I’m on a bit of a Twitter hiatus, but wanted to share that I’m delighted to be joining @RoyalHolloway very soon - exciting times ahead! A little bittersweet, as @UniofReading has been such a supportive, generous home for the past 23 years; thank you!

Our book "Ecology of Tropical Cities-Natural and Social Sciences Applied to the Conservation of Urban Biodiversity" has a cover! In the cover picture, Zara, a female leopard, in Jaipur, India. That picture beautifully illustrates its contents #UrbanEcology #UrbanBiodiversity

@ThatItchyGirl @UniofReading It’s true! James Lovelock was a visiting researcher in cybernetics at Reading back in the day, so our Gaia connection has a long history, and long may it continue!

Aw shucks, I'm glad to be at Reading too

@pinman That’s awesome; I used to teach basic nature photography to my students on some field courses - great way to get people to look differently at the world!

.@BaobabJ Look at thread.

Carbon dioxide levels are now 50% higher than during the pre-industrial era theguardian.com/environment/20…

Cats kill up to 270million prey every year, study suggests  mol.im/a/10866639 read the full amazing study via sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Turns out our speculation about too many leopards being removed in Mpumalanga journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.410… could be the causing the rise in the unusual red colour-morph leopards as new research has found a high degree of relatedness onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.111… @UniSurreyNews,@UniRdg_News

I might not be popular with cat owners for this, but their potential threat to UK wildlife does need to be acknowledged. I did an interview on GB News earlier this week after the Times article on our paper. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @UniRdg_News @UniSurreyNews @UniSurreyBioSci

1)Our paper @Birds_MDPI Will Brazilian City Dwellers Actively Engage in Urban Conservation? A Case Study with the Charismatic Neotropical Blue-and-Yellow Macaw/Ara ararauna With a good news:The great majority would be willing to plant fruit trees & provide nest sites for macaws‼️

Flying insect numbers have plunged by 60% since 2004, GB survey finds theguardian.com/environment/20…

At launch this evening of @educationgovuk #climateineducation strategy by @nadhimzahawi @NHM_London, putting climate, sustainability, biodiversity into the heart of education. Now isn’t the time for lazy cynicism, it’s the time to work together to change our relationship w/nature

As the @educationgovuk launch their Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy incl. our Climate Ambassador scheme, Prof Mark Fellowes (@BaobabJ) and Jo Anna Reed Johnson write for the Conversation on why a revolution in climate education is so important: theconversation.com/how-a-new-gcse…

Pet cats (Felis catus) from urban boundaries use different habitats, h... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The #SaharanDust fallout associated with last days storm has coloured many of the 🇪🇺 mountain peaks from white ⬜️ to orange 🟧 This is how the Ossoue Valley in the #Pyrenees (Occitania 🇫🇷) looked yesterday 19 March in an image acquired by #Copernicus #Sentinel2 🇪🇺🛰️

On Feeding Birds and Other Wildlife zoology.ubc.ca/~krebs/ecologi…

Bird Feeders Are Good for Some Species--But Possibly Bad for Others - Scientific American; nice to see a couple of our papers cited here ⁦@PaW_Research⁩ scientificamerican.com/article/bird-f…

The new #IPCC #ClimateReport shows that the climate and #biodiversity crises cannot be separated. It finds that temporarily exceeding global warming of 1.5°C will result in severe impacts #ForNature, some of which will be irreversible. 📗@IPCC_CH report: report.ipcc.ch/ar6wg2/

Enraptured by raptors: the return of birds of prey ft.com/content/4b17dc…

More fantastic news this morning to see ⁦@UniofReading⁩ ranked 15th in the newest ⁦@peopleandplanet⁩ university league tables. Such brilliant work on this across campus particularly ⁦@UoREnergyDan⁩ and great leadership ⁦@BaobabJ⁩ peopleandplanet.org/university-lea…

What humanity should eat to stay healthy and save the planet nature.com/articles/d4158…