Jayden Engert
@jaydengert
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PhD student interested in the conservation and restoration of forests globally. Dignity and wellbeing for people and nature.
Joined December 2017
The CSIRO, the agency that gave the world Wi-Fi, among other world-leading research, has never been more important to Australia’s future. Successive governments have failed to invest. We need to turn that around and value the science and scientists that are key to our future.
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Firestone was never just a bad company acting immorally. It has always been an extension of U.S. empire. This is how neo-colonialism and imperialism work. When Firestone entered Liberia in 1926, it did so with U.S. government backing. Washington guaranteed loans to Liberia
FIRESTONE: HOW U.S. RUBBER GIANT STILL BURNS LIBERIA African Stream officially closed down at the end of July. But before making that decision, we had already been working on this important documentary about the American rubber company Firestone and its history of exploitation.
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A young activist opposing a geothermal project in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, was found dead in a gruesome manner. Southeast Asia has long been a dangerous place for environmental activism. https://t.co/XUyQn0LLq9
tempo.co
Aktivis muda penolak Geotermal asal Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT), Vian Ruma, ditemukan tewas mengenaskan.
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We have this new paper, led by Meghna Goyal, which provides the first global view of inequality in the agri-food system. We find that agricultural production has increasingly shifted to the South, but income is increasingly captured in the North. https://t.co/t8MJsy1yvD
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Localised rises in temperature caused by land clearance cause 28,330 heat-related deaths a year... https://t.co/2nyhhrQlNo
theguardian.com
Localised rises in temperature caused by land clearance cause 28,330 heat-related deaths a year, researchers find
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We have this new piece in The Conversation describing recent scholarship on the question of extreme poverty, with Dylan Sullivan and Michalis Moatsos. A growing body of literature argues that the World Bank’s PPP-based method has a major empirical limitation: it does not
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"...a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic's AI training now threatens to 'financially ruin' the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement." AI has been stealing from us. They owe us $
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Perampasan dan penghancuran ekologis berkedok ecotourism (capitalist green grabbing) Habitat komodo dihancurkan demi bisnis pariwisata mewah, PT. KWE dikasih izin pengelolaan 55 tahun 2.000 warga desa Komodo cuma kebagian 27 ha, perusahaan dapat 10 kali lebih luas
TAMAN NASIONAL KOMODO AKAN DI BABAT PEMERINTAH RAKUS GAISS PLISS BANTU😭
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5 years ago, American and European authors published a paper about the 'gaps' in Neotropical ornithology yet I still hear about cool manuscripts by Latin American authors on Neotropical species being rejected by American and European journals for their 'limited scope'
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I wonder, @PennySharpemlc… does this deeply upset you? Land clearing in NSW surged by 40% in 2023 - putting it on par with palm oil deforestation in Indonesia. Koalas can’t survive this. Words do nothing, time for a #KoalaProtectionAct
https://t.co/pqwcBSpDfU
smh.com.au
Land-clearing in NSW has surged by 40 per cent as the Minns government is yet to ditch rules driven by former Nationals leader John Barilaro after more than two years in government.
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How Corporations and Donors Are Using Violence and Displacement to Take Over Africa’s Farmlands https://t.co/LMoOZmNsAX
westafricaweekly.com
From Nigeria’s Middle Belt to the savannahs of Tanzania, a troubling trend is spreading across Africa: small-scale farmers are being violently driven off their lands, only for that land to be...
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URGENT- on 24 July, @DanielNoboaOk eliminated Ecuador’s Ministry of #Environment, Water, and Ecological Transition, transferring its functions to the Ministry of Energy and Mines, the institution responsible for promoting oil drilling & mining. 🔗 https://t.co/dhHjflNSqr
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Instead of protecting one of Australia and the world’s greatest cultural treasures, Labor used a doctored scientific report funded by Woodside to lobby the UN to ditch safeguards protecting Murujuga from Woodside’s acid gas emissions 👇🏼 https://t.co/UH6mv9zYTI
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The WA Government has let foreign oil company Chevron turn Western Australia's second largest Island, formerly a pristine Class A nature reserve into a "contamination site." Here is what it looks like now. State capture and regulatory failure. https://t.co/WTysxl5W1T
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Supporting landholders to restore their land results in more forest recovery! Really cool study from Toto et al. https://t.co/A0UY7FS4t1
nature.com
Nature Communications - This study shows that a forest restoration program supporting landowners increased forest cover in Brazil, indicating large-scale restoration can work, especially where...
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A veil of secrecy hangs over the conditions applied to Woodside Energy’s massive gas export project on WA's Burrup Peninsula
thenewdaily.com.au
A veil of secrecy hangs over the conditions applied to Woodside Energy’s massive gas export project on WA's Burrup Peninsula.
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"The present situation is a clear, unequivocal example of linguistic injustice All costs of having a common language in science are borne by non-native English-speaking scientists, implying unfair cooperation in obtaining a common good (a common language)" @Trends_Ecol_Evo
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