Category: CSR/ECO/ESG

This month, The Applied Ecologist is amplifying the voice of early career ecologists from around the world working in the field of applied ecology to help inspire the next generation. In this post, Wayne Stanley Rice from the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore shares his story below. How would you describe […]

Radegonde said that since the coming into force of the levy, no negative impact has been recorded in visitors’ arrival and forward bookings. (Gerard Larose) Photo license   Over SCR85 million ($6.3 million) is expected to be collected through the Seychelles tourism environmental sustainable levy for the period August 1 to December 31, said a high […]

Young international candidates and Seychellois youth with an interest in conservation are being asked to join Nature Seychelles‘ programme on Cousin Island Special Reserve for the hawksbill season, which begins in October. The chief executive of the non-profit organisation, Nirmal Shah, told SNA that “we are looking for people with the mental and emotional ability to apply […]

This month, The Applied Ecologist is amplifying the voice of early career ecologists from around the world working in the field of applied ecology to help inspire the next generation. In this post, Claudia Christensen García from the Basque Centre for Climate Change shares her story below. My background and interests Visiting the Metatron site […]

Where water is scarce, land dries up causing crop failure and people’s health is at risk from lack of drinking water. Since warmer air can hold more water, climate change is also leading to heavier rainfall and extreme floods in other areas. This claims lives, destroys homes and infrastructure, and puts a huge economic burden […]

Feike Dijkstra discusses his recent article: Continuous remobilization from belowground provides more than half of all carbon and nitrogen in regrowing shoots after grassland defoliation. Find out more about how C and N remobilization have important consequences for how grasslands respond to grazing intensity and global change factors: 🌱 What we found When aboveground tissue is […]

Joshua Wilson discusses recent research at Moreton Bay, Australia which saw Wilson and colleagues conduct over 200 drone approaches of shorebird flocks to measure how the birds respond to drones. Particular attention is paid to the critically endangered Eastern Curlew. Stress responses Imagine you’re resting in your bed when, out of the corner of your […]

The editor’s choice for our August issue is “Seasonality regulates the structure and biogeochemical impact of ectomycorrhizal fungal communities across environmentally divergent neotropical dry forests“ by Katilyn Beidler et al. Here, Associate Editor James Dalling discusses the importance of this research: We usually think of ectomycorrhizal (ECM) tree species in the tropics as occurring on the tops of mountains […]

This month, The Applied Ecologist is amplifying the voice of early career ecologists from around the world working in the field of applied ecology to help inspire the next generation. In this post, Charlotte Raven, a second-year PhD student at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia, shares her story. My background I have had […]

The Commission has adopted a Decision on the Union-wide quantity of allowances to be issued under the EU Emissions Trading System for 2024 in respect of stationary installations and maritime transport activities (the ‘cap’). The calculation of the cap that underpins the Commission Decision applies the following changes introduced in the recent revision of the […]