See below for an exciting new PhD opportunity, modelling mesopredator communities of lowland waders. Hosted at Bournemouth University in partnership with WWT: bournemouth.ac.uk/study/courses/…

Stop 2: The is one of the first #landscape scale recovery projects partnering with @Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, Env Agency Midlands & more.

The WWT team is testing farm ditches for E-DNA to see if #eels have got this far so we can tailor future interventions.

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Yeah. It me.

📢 Job alert!
Fancy working with Tan Grigg & me on Dartmoor on #Curlew ? We're looking for a Monitoring Officer to help with data collection & to lead on post release monitoring of head started Curlew. More info ➡️ jobs.wwt.org.uk/vacancies/1848…

📢 Job alert!
Come & work with Daniel Gornall & me. Can promise you a great team, lovely farmers, working in beautiful hay meadows & #Curlew chicks... all whilst collecting vital evidence to help lowland breeding Curlew. See ➡️ jobs.wwt.org.uk/vacancies/1849…

'It takes the pressure off the river & protects the properties below us' Good to see Debbie Wilkins championing floodplains & letting them 'do their job'
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🖼 Poster sneak peak - 'Who ate who?' Sian Taylor WWT Conservation are developing new methods to use DNA to identify predators and better support conservation of nesting waders #IWSG2023

Very proud of Sian Taylor, presenting early findings from her intern year WWT to explore predators of ground nesting waders #eDNA #IWSG2023 #WomeninStem working with me Lynda Donaldson Kane Brides Daniel Gornall and others

Are you working with aquatic data?
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Introducing our first #mooc on environmental DNA for biodiversity assessment and conservation! Learn how to apply the methods of #eDNA to different case studies in this immersive online course.

Ecosystems and Landscape Evolution WSL Umweltforschung

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‘We are living in a soup of DNA’: how new technology is helping track eels in UK ponds theguardian.com/environment/20… #eDNA #Europeaneel

Eel monitoring has made it into the news twice today! Some of the other waterways I’ve helped StroudValleysProject to monitor for #eel using #eDNA with their wonderful #CitizenScience volunteers

Lucy Smith of the WWT reports on work to map important pond habitats in the UK. Worrying losses of these habitats #BESAG2023

.Abi Mackay of the WWT tells #BESAG2023 about the complexity of European eel lifecycles and work to assess their distribution in ponds

Can you help us to deliver ground-breaking research and conservation action?

We're looking for a new Director of Conservation to implement our new 2030 strategy.

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I wrote a thing! 👇🐦🔭

Some rambles about my experiences as a young birder, some lovely people that have helped me along the way, and my time volunteering at WWT Slimbridge,
🇺🇦🕊 Bardsey Lodge & Bird Obs, Spurn Bird Observatory and of course BTO! #BTOYouth

Do you work or collaborate with environmental/conservation NGO's? We need your help!
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Join expert Dr. Laura Weldon for an eel-y exciting event later this month: a journey into the remarkable lifecycle of freshwater eels, with tales and activities for all. We'll even be DNA testing the water to see if eels are present. Wriggle down and join us!

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I’ll be talking about my favourite fish at a fundraiser for Stroud valleys project and sampling for eel eDNA - let’s see if there’s more eel activity about with all the new fish passage on the Frome. #eels ⁦StroudValleysProject⁩