Steph Key

Our upriver vulture research expedition to Saruja was very successful. We caught ringed tagged and sampled 9 White-backed Vultures and 51 Hooded Vultures.

🎉 Meet our new arrival Rupert - a tiny chick making a big impact in vulture conservation ! For the first time ever, a hand-reared Rüppell’s griffon vulture chick has been successfully reunited with its parents. 🦅💚 #EndangeredSpecies londonzoo.org/zoo-stories/ne…

Kartong Bird Observatory is proud to support these research projects @LSHTM. Our unique skills in obtaining samples from vultures developed over the last 14 years are making a valuable contribution to Planetary Health.

Been really a really great policy training week with @OneZooCDT so far! Very cool to see behind the curtain and learn about how #OneHealth values are being embedded into government strategies. @DefraGovUK

björk and mushrooms!

Fantastic investigation by @BrianCathcart on the shady Tufton Street ‘Restore Trust’ group and the levels of disinformation in their “Right-Wing Bid to Capture the National Trust” bylinetimes.com/2022/10/27/the…

"For more than a year now, the north-east coast has been suffering mass deaths of marine life. It started last October, with crustaceans particularly badly affected, & local lobster & crab fishers reporting a 95% decline in their catch." - @BylineTimes bylinetimes.com/2022/10/27/a-c…

The fantastical world of the #Abyss. Revealed after 4 years of painstaking systematic work led by @LupitaBribiesc1 #NHMDeepSea @NHM_London for #DeepCCZ project by @MooreFound @NOAAResearch. 110 pages of deep-sea colour; 48 species; 39 likely new. zookeys.pensoft.net/article/82172/…

Check out our research team at @IBAHCM, @LSHTM and @CayetanoHeredia using Earth Observation data and machine learning tools to identify mosquito breeding sites🦟 azavea.com/projects/colla…

Two Sepia officinalis cuttlebones. They reveal two different stories about stress during their life. The black growth lines reveal stress during that moment. The snallest individual present less black growth increments, but a very thick one as an early subadult: something...

A Review published in Parasites & Vectors provides a list of 22 women from diverse backgrounds, born in the late 1800s and before 1950, who directly impacted medical entomology in various ways and in different regions of the world. bit.ly/3DPaFWN

Our systematic review on P. knowlesi (Pk) transmission has been published in @MalariaJournal! Authored along with @ecolokey, @ChrisDrakeley, Dr Kim Fornace, Dr Kim Lindblade and Dr Indra Vythilingham malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… A short summary of the paper: 🧵

@IsabelByrne big fan of your continuing frog era

Great to have this one out! Well done to a great team of authors who pulled a lot of years of work together 🐸

Most small mammals, weasels and stoats all in decline. Our new research points to a major problem in British ecosystems. You REALLY don't want to lose the tiny cogs that make everything else function.(c)J Phillips @mammalsociety @UK_CEH @SussexUni sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@JusttheZooofUs getting to sydney and finding out ibises are akin to pigeons and known as “bin chickens”

Have you ever traveled to a new place & absolutely lost it over wild animals that are super common there but unusual where you're from?

If you read only one country’s statement at #COP26 today, please read this one here by the Maldives’ Minister of Environment, Aminath Shauna: “The difference between 1.5 degrees and 2 is a death sentence for us”

New paper! A technical workflow for characterising #Anophelesfunestus larval habitats with #drones and larval sampling in Cote d'Ivoire We hope this acts as a useful guide for researchers interested in integrating drones into vector data collection🚁🦟🗺️ doi.org/10.1155/2021/3…

Application extended to 31st August! Brilliant opportunity for African women in conservation, please share and apply! womenforenvironment.org/2022-applicati…

We are offering a 5-day PhD course in Ecological entomology and climate change 4-8 October 2021. Great international group of teachers in beautiful Mols Bjerge, Denmark. Please RT and/or sign up events.au.dk/ccee2021