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Falk's Conservation Opinion Blog
by Falk Huettmann
Some personal comments, opinions, first-hand examples and reasonings on effective conservation worldwide! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/falk-huettmann/support
Episodes
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Neo-Colonial Flyway Conservation of Migratory Birds: An NGO example for the Afro‐Palaearctic ?
Most migratory birds of the world's flyways are in decline, or in conservation troubles by now. The Old World flyway connecting Western Europe with Africa is no exception and hardly a surprise, while Africa features a tragic colonial legacy serving primarily the 'Global North' and a small group…
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Urban Gulls: An Overlooked Management Issue for the Anthropocene ?
Urban gulls are a fascinating issue in recent times. Most people in the world now live in cities, where they are confronted with urban governance and its wildlife, such as cockroaches, squirrels, rats, pigeons and gulls, let's say. In the subarctic this issue is widely unstudied but matters…
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No Snow, Wow!
When snow gets warmed up it melts; virtually every child will know that. However, on a policy and public level, those details are hardly acknowledged, certainly not the vast impacts that relate to lacking 'snow pack', e.g. seasonality, regional climate, and feeding water tables, rivers, estuaries...
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A comment on "A decade of wrangling, but dolphins and seabirds off South Island's NZ east coast remain unprotected" (by A. Vance 2022)
New Zealand (NZ) is blessed with a unique, quite wild nature and its endemic biodiversity. Also, NZ as a relatively small nation with c. 5.1 mio inhabitants features the world's 4th largest exclusive economic zone (EEZ). But modern NZ also entails many governance problems. Indigenous concepts are...
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Telecoupling anyone ? The global case of the Elegant Tern (Veit et al. 2021) in the Anthropocene connecting the Pacific with the Atlantic, western Europe, and the global economy
Some environmental patterns appear to be local - but upon closer inspection - then have a wider and larger spill-over and are actually driven by global actors. Based on a recent study by Veit et al. (2021) here a seabird example is presented - the Elegant Tern - and how its conservation…
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Living off-grid in a remote Alpine Meadow Hut: Guest Interview featuring Moriz Steiner
“My dream is to live off-grid”. A sentence that seems to come up more and more frequently throughout the last few years. Who does not want to live sustainably and be self-subsistent ? Yet, how is it really to live off-grid in remote areas, away from modern society, but yet to stay in western...
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Distribution matters: A typical conservation story from the Great Gray Owl and many others
Species distributions are an essential feature for a successful species conservation management. Data of presence/absence are quite simple to obtain and they are easily part of most inventory schemes, such as Bird Atlases and survey plots. After +100 years of bird banding, the current flurry of...
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The Panama Canal as part of the Global Collateral: Sea anemones, Evolution, Birds, Butterflies, The Global Economy and ...People
This episode deals with the somewhat overlooked impact on 'deep nature' by the world economy and global trade, it uses a global bottleneck and strategic hotspot: the Panama Canal region. While focusing on a re-interpretation and shifted emphasize of the results by Bellis et al (2018; sea…
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Three-Dimensional Quantification of Copepods Predictive Distributions in the Ross Sea/Antarctica using Open Access and Machine Learning/AI (Grillo et al. 2022):
'Plankton" consists of phytoplankton (~plants) and zooplankton (-animals). It represents the basis of the ocean food chain and it includes many species; it's a very complex 'multi-species soup' representing a true science frontier hardly tackled, understood or managed yet. Copepods are part of…
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Tropical Mountains and Cloud Forest: Example from Nicaragua with Guest Speaker Hazel Berrios
This episode presents on Tropical Mountain and Cloud Forest issues, namely conservation, species diversity and ecology. It uses an interview with Hazel Berrios and her wider tropical plant field experience. This session discusses a multi-year field study experience by the author, and a 2 years...
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Forestation Programs and Perspectives in China: Details and Thoughts from Zhang et al. (2022)
This podcasts elaborates on some supplementary materials in the forestry publication by Zhang et al. (2022). Based on this research it briefly presents details of ten Forestation Programs in China and their contexts and objectives. Those are large-scale and long-term landscape projects with…
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Comment and Explanation: 'Modeling Eastern Russian High Arctic Geese (Anser fabalis, A. albifrons) during moult and brood rearing in the ‘New Digital Arctic’'
This podcast provides some deeper insights into our new publication by Solovyeva et al. (2021) dealing with Arctic Geese in the Eastern Russian Arctic. It provides a showcase for the 'New Digital Arctic' as the myriad changes in the Arctic land-, sea- and coastal-scape are unfolding so fast with...
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Gray-headed Chickadee: Another Canary against the Coal Mines ?
The Gray-headed Chickadee is part of the app. 50 Parus species with a dominance in the Old World, ranging from Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden Finland) all across Russia and even into the New World, namely Alaska and Yukon/Canada (Hailman and Haftron 1995). This species is often found in…
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Segregation in Animals: Selected examples, and implications for an effective Conservation Management of the past and the future
The segregation in animals is a fundamental topic in wildlife research and conservation policy. It was studied early on within 'deer' (ungulates) and how males and females use space and habitat in different ways. Often, they are not even overlapping, and for parts of the year they may even be...
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Sustainable Seascape Ecology (Pittman et al. 2021): How to set Priorities for Global Sustainability without a Bias ?
This episode elaoborates on the Seascape Ecology scheme and on the concept of defining a global sustainability science agenda without bias. It is based on the new publication of over 30 co-authors by Pittmann et al. (2021) which essentially tried to follow the Sutherland et al. (2009) approach to...
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Art and Science: This time done right ?
The Arts and the Sciences are truly connected; they feed into each other, relate directly, provide inspiration and creativity for the global audience. Following a quote by Berthodl Brecht "Art is not a mirror for reality, but a hammer with which to shape it" it can present a major force to be...
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The Big Caribou Meltdown: Reflections and Evidences from a Meta-Analysis
Caribou and reindeer are an inherent and co-evolved part of the Circumpolar North. However, the Arctic Report Card 2018 stated that app. 2.6 million reindeers got lost just during the last 20 years. The status of caribou herds further south is equally worrisome, with the lower 48 states of the…
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Migratory Birds from the EU-Africa flyway and their Declines: Some wintering ground models and wider views to tackle warfare, resource extraction, poverty and climate change
Many songbirds are migratory, and they are in a serious conservation trouble! Here we show from a recent publication by Walther and Huettmann (2021) how those trends in the Old World and its African fllyways and wintering grounds can be modeled with Open Access GIS layers and machine learning…
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'Autocorrelation' as another Dealbreaker in Science-based Conservation Management Worldwide
Autocorrelation -the serial correlation - as a correlated signal with a delayed copy of itself is inherent in Nature. It's not just a problem to get rid of, to be modeled away or a Red Herring in time and space, but it should be used to your advantage. In reality though, it's either ignored or...
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Central American Biodiversity: A case from a global role model ?
Central America and its Biodiversity is world famous. However, its status and conservation is very worrying, just like many features in the Anthropocene these days. Using over 12 years for field school-based field research in the region -land, marine and atmosphere - this podcast is based, in…
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The World is Burning ? Why we urgently need a new International Polar Year (IPY) now for progress during times of rapid man-made climate change and global industrialization
The International Polar Years (IPYs) are meant to provide unbiased research and progress - a great leap forward - for polar regions and wider global issues. Starting in 1882 they are organized app. every 50 years by the international community, and the last IPY just finished in 2007/8 as one of…
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The snow leopard has no data sharing: Just another victim of globalization and its poor governance
Snow leopards have been studied for over a century, specifically by the western world; they got heavily promoted by western media and TV as a rare sensation of the mountains (e.g. Matthiesen 2008). Realities do differ though, and here I show that the snow leopard is virtually free of Open Access...
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Home Ranges anyone ? Elaborations on another skeleton in the big closet of failed Wildlife Conservation Management
Home ranges have occupied the Wildlife Management research and literature for decades; they are the bread-and-butter of most species accounts and textbooks. Various software exists computing Minimum Convex Polygons (MCPs), Kernel estimators etc. However, the validity, repeatability and…
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Re-Post and Critical Context: STEMM Storytellers #12 Antarctic Ice-shelf collapse, iceberg calving and future research
This is a re-post and a wider conservation science policy context of an earlier podcast interview with STEMM Storytellers with Rachel Villiani's #90 Antarctica Series 12: https://anchor.fm/storytellersofSTEMM/episodes/90---Antarctica-Series-12-Falk-Huettmann-eom8au It is c. 1h long, tackles…
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Bystanding by Design ? Seabirds as Indicators of a Failed Scientific Conservation Managment and their Institutions, Employees and NGOs worldwide
It remains undisputed for over a century that 'Seabirds are Indicators', the same can be said is true for the Global Ocean Crisis in the Anthropocene. However, considering the reality of oceans and many seabirds, the applied policy concept that seabirds can show us the status of fish stocks - can...
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So-called 'Modern' Western Science and Industrial Approaches Fail the Saiga Antelope: Repeated Massive Population Crashes of Migratory Species in Herder's Land are Not Understood nor Addressed
The Saiga antelope is a fascinating - albeit tragic- example for Global Governance failure and Western Research Publication Arrogance. While widely distributed in the Asian steppe for millennia, as publicized by George Schaller for the wilderness of Central Asia and Tibetean Plateau region, the...
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Troubles in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ): Impossible and Careless Conservation Management and Enforcement for Seabirds, Marine Life and Habitats
The Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) is part of a national jurisdiction, but widely out of reach for conservation. Many nations do not even have the gear, funding or the will and knowledge to monitor and enforce it fully. Based on Humphries and Huettmann (supported by E. Woehler; 2012) here…
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The Failed Commercialized Neoliberal Publication Model for Profit: An Example from Peregrine Falcon Conservation Worldwide
Using best-available data and research, Peregrine Falcons of this world are shown to occur primarily in cities, and they link with predictors like infant mortality and proximity to coast and water. Here I discuss why this finding is so relevant and what the rejected publication means and…
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The Ecological Niche is 'kaputt': Some perspectives for mammals, nature and Mother Earth
Hello Everybody, This episode deals with the fact that species can only live in their respective ecological niches. That's the law of nature. Any species outside of their ecological niche will die...A good example would be when humans trying to fly to MARS, trying to exist outside of their...
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Squirrel taxonomy, failure of the research machine and lack of conservation
This episode covers squirrels, their taxonomy and conservation management failures in a globalized world dominated by science, policy and its institutions, but failing to address even the most basic concepts for such species, and for nature overall. We show that specifically species for wealthy...
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