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Pathways to sustainability conference
Eleanor presented her work on the evidence for participatory forest restoration in projects, globally, at the recent PECS-III conference (Pathways to Sustainability), Montreal, August 12th to 15th 2024. Co-Organised by Resilience Alliance. PECS-3: Pathways to Sustainability (fourwaves.com) Here are her … Continue reading
Posted in biodiversity, Ecology, forest landscape restoration, Tropical
Tagged forest landscape restoration
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How birds can help farms and forests in the Philippines
Brilliant PhD candidate Jelaine Gan has been developing some cool comics, in collaboration with Jessica Stutman. Printed for engagement with local communities in her field study sites (pdf: in Filipino , in English). The work highlights the functional role of … Continue reading
Posted in agroforestry, biodiversity, Ecology, Fieldwork
Tagged biodiversity, forest landscape restoration
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Trees on farms – agroforestry research at Newcastle University
Since a couple of years, we have been following the establishment of our agroforestry trial plot, Cockle Park (Agriculture Facilities | School of Natural and Environmental Sciences | Newcastle University (ncl.ac.uk)), A mixture of tree lines comprising poplar and willow … Continue reading
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Tagged agroforestry, biodiversity, ecology
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Agroforestry adoption UK
Policy recommendations have a look at the most recent outputs from our agroforestry UK project. We have synthesized key findings into a policy brief (thank you @Eleanor Moore for the amazing leadership on this) .
Posted in agroforestry, biodiversity, Ecology, Microclimate, natural capital
Tagged agroforestry, Farmers, Natural England, Northumberland, Policy
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Teaching & Training
As a group, we are leading on and contributing to several courses teaching at UG and PG level at Newcastle University. We supervise and offer projects on topics we research on and are happy to help you organise an international … Continue reading
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Updates from the team
(1) Visitors to the team: Daniel Da Silva is visiting from the Regional University of Blumenau in Brazil. He will work with us and colleagues from the wider research group (Modelling, Evidence and Policy) to do some complex system modelling … Continue reading
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Four UG students in Peru
Four group members (UG students at NU) recently ventured into the untouched forests of Peru Manu NP to look for jaguars with camera traps, analyse vegetation indicators of disturbance and measure spatial point patterns in fig tree species. Thank you … Continue reading
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Visiting Geography at University of Zurich, Switzerland
Early mornings are dreadful, no matter how often one practices the ‘set alarm at 3:50 am, get up, fall into clothes, fall into cab, try to hold a polite conversation with lovely taxi driver, join the queues at the security … Continue reading
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Laura won prestigious award
Our PhD student Laura won the prestigious National Geographic Early Career Grant to support her research on road impacts on amphibians and mammals in rainforests. Congratulations!