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Chico Mendes Prize 2023: Winner announced for early career practitioner award

We’re excited to announce Molly Mitchell as the winner of the 2023 Chico Mendes Prize, celebrating the best Practice Insights article in the journal by an author at the start of their career. Winner: Molly Mitchell Article: A marsh multimodel approach to inform future marsh management under accelerating sea-level rise About the research How do you make good decisions about managing resources when those resources are … Continue reading Chico Mendes Prize 2023: Winner announced for early career practitioner award

AER | ESEApril 11, 2024April 11, 20241 Comment

Careers, Coastal and marine, Freshwater, Practitioners, Research summaries, Restoration, Themed collections

Conservation of future marshland

Shortlisted for the Chico Mendes Prize 2023 In this blog post, author Molly Mitchell describe her team’s Practice Insights article which demonstrates the value of using multiple models and data to inform marsh management, conservation and restoration practices. How do you make good decisions about managing resources when those resources are changing? This is the issue with which coastal managers have been struggling as sea … Continue reading Conservation of future marshland

AER | ESEMarch 29, 2024March 18, 20243 Comments

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Will fish passages alone resolve our river fragmentation problems?

Shortlisted for the Chico Mendes Prize 2023 In their latest Practice Insights article, Henry Hansen and colleagues present a case study that applies a new method to improve current fish habitat models and better guide future restoration efforts. Fragmentation has become a consistent impact in rivers as society’s need for renewable energy continues to grow. The proliferation of hydropower plants supports the world’s shared goal … Continue reading Will fish passages alone resolve our river fragmentation problems?

AER | ESEMarch 19, 2024March 18, 2024Leave a comment

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Chico Mendes Prize 2023: Shortlist announced for early career practitioner award

Every two years, Ecological Solutions and Evidence awards the Chico Mendes Prize to the best Practice Insights article published by an early career author. Today, we present the shortlisted articles for this year’s award based on the previous two volumes of the journal. This is the second time we’ll be awarding the prize in honour of Chico Mendes, an environmental activist whose fight and defence for the Amazon rainforest, … Continue reading Chico Mendes Prize 2023: Shortlist announced for early career practitioner award

AER | ESEMarch 12, 2024March 25, 20249 Comments

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Research stories: Building partners in high altitudes through participatory action research

Shortlisted for the Chico Mendes Prize 2023 Lead author Munib Khanyari takes us through his team’s journey through the high altitudes of Changthang in trans-Himalayan India to co-design conservation interventions that benefit the communities who live alongside the wildlife. A video presentation about the study can also be found here. “We have solutions, but often we don’t have the ability to operationalise it”, whispered the Acho … Continue reading Research stories: Building partners in high altitudes through participatory action research

AER | ESESeptember 19, 2023March 25, 20241 Comment

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Get involved in our ECR blog series!

***We are no longer accepting contributions for this series*** We’re seeking contributors for an upcoming early career researcher blog series to be shared in August 2023. This blog series aims to amplify the voice of early career ecologists and help inspire the next generation. If you are a student and work in the field of applied ecology, ecological management or environmental policy we’d love to … Continue reading Get involved in our ECR blog series!

The Applied EcologistJune 12, 2023July 17, 20231 Comment

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Adaptive staged-scale restoration practices for upland prairies

Shortlisted for the Chico Mendes Prize 2023 Claudia Muzychko shares her latest Practice Insights which documents current on-site activity on Violet Prairie, USA, and provides a management planning reference for prairie restoration. A version of this post is available in Italian. Sometimes in land management we can focus so intently on direct problems complicating our practices that we may not have the space or time … Continue reading Adaptive staged-scale restoration practices for upland prairies

AER | ESEJune 6, 2023March 13, 20242 Comments

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Chico Mendes Prize 2021: early career practitioner winner announced

We’re excited to announce Alexandro Leverkus as the winner of the 2021 Chico Mendes Prize, celebrating the best Practice Insights article in the journal by an author at the start of their career. Winner: Alexandro Leverkus Research: Enabling conditions for the implementation and conservation outcomes of a private nature reserve About the study Public nature reserves are often the cornerstone of nature conservation but are … Continue reading Chico Mendes Prize 2021: early career practitioner winner announced

AER | ESEApril 29, 2022May 18, 2022Leave a comment

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Shortlist announced for Chico Mendes Prize early career practitioner award

After announcing the Chico Mendes Prize at the end of 2021, we present the shortlisted articles for this year’s Chico Mendes Prize – awarded to the best Practice Insights article published by an early career practitioner – based on the first two volumes of the journal. The Chico Mendes Prize is awarded every two years to celebrate and honour the work of on-the-ground practitioners and … Continue reading Shortlist announced for Chico Mendes Prize early career practitioner award

AER | ESEMarch 8, 2022March 3, 2022Leave a comment

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Introducing the Chico Mendes Prize for the best early career practitioner

Following the announcement of the Georgina Mace Prize last week, we are delighted to announce the Chico Mendes Prize, our new biennial prize for the best Practice Insights article published by an early career practitioner in Ecological Solutions and Evidence. A version of this post is available in Portuguese. The Chico Mendes Prize will be awarded every two years to the best Practice Insights article published in … Continue reading Introducing the Chico Mendes Prize for the best early career practitioner

AER | ESEDecember 14, 2021January 11, 20222 Comments