he/him 🦅 MSc in Biodiversity and Global Change @UCL, @ZSLScience & @NHM_Science
Joined April 2012
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Moses Gee retweeted
#Seabirds (and the 🌏) depend on the #HighSeas. But #conservation thereof is DIFFICULT, especially under global change (#ClimateChange, #PlasticPollution, #OffshoreWind etc.). To secure the Kuaka, we evaluated conservation options in the high seas! doi.org/10.1111/conl.12989
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Moses Gee retweeted
This is a super interesting study evaluating potential area based management tools for seabird conservation on the high seas. Led by @MscBgc student @MosesGee and expertly coordinated by @docgovtnz’s @flying_force! A fun and impactful collaboration 🙏 – at Santa Maria di Sala, Veneto
A new study in @ConLetters focusing on the Critically Endangered Kuaka bird 🐦 shows the benefits of decision science in managing the complexity of the high seas, predicting population projections under different area-based management tools (ABMTs) 2/4
Moses Gee retweeted
The high seas cover ~90% of Earth’s ocean volume, yet only ~1.2% is protected, with threats to wildlife including pollution and commercial fishing, and highly complex governance structures 🌊 1/4
There is hope for Kuaka! The BBNJ Treaty will utilise majority decision-making, reducing the power of single countries in negotiations, and providing a framework for coordination and cooperation across oceans... 6/7
which will result in the implementation of more robust ABMTs, supporting the holistic action required for Kuaka conservation and all the other species that inhabit the high seas 7/7 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.c…
Cost-effectiveness analysis revealed:
- Decisive and early action (by 2030) is not only the most effective conservation strategy for Kuaka, but costs less and minimises international negotiation effort 4/7
Our paper also highlights the value of decision science tools to help inform the best decision when faced with a high degree of uncertainty, which is so often the case in species conservation. Something @docgovtnz is embracing brilliantly 5/7
- Mitigation implemented by 2040 under current high seas governance structures performed the worst
- Acting sooner (by 2030) rather than later (by 2040) is critical to Kuaka survival 3/7
Wow! My first publication in @ConsLetters, thanks to @flying_force, @hihinews , @Stefano_Canessa and so many others. We evaluated how potential area-based management tools (ABMTs) could influence the conservation of the Critically Endangered seabird, Kuaka, on the high seas 1/7
Moses Gee retweeted
Puerto Rico. Hawai’i. Palestine. Jamaica. All the stolen land. Colonialism is a bitch.
Moses Gee retweeted
The Director of the UN's New York office just resigned after thirty years at the organisation over the UN's handling of the ongoing genocide of Palestinians.
The entirety of his resignation letter is a necessary read but this first page blew me away.
Moses Gee retweeted
This is morally obscene. It won’t improve energy security or lower bills - but it will shatter our climate commitments & demolish global leadership. Govt is complicit in this climate crime - as is Labour unless they pledge to do all possible to revoke it.
Rosebank oil field granted consent by regulator bbc.in/46vOQJ7
Moses Gee retweeted
She rejected a boy and he killed her for it. Young men are being radicalised online and little girls are bearing the brunt of the resulting violence. Misogyny is killing women and girls and it's only going to get worse as these Andrew Tate fans get older.
Schoolgirl, 15, stabbed to death in London, UK, as police confirm murder investigation under way bbc.in/3ESGm2H
Moses Gee retweeted
BREAKING: Government to weaken Water pollution legislation.
As if UK rivers needed any more crap @georgemonbiot