Excited to share our latest perspective, nicely led by Néstor Pérez Méndez, showing that in rice farming, widely promoted water‑saving practices can lower GHG emissions but also harm freshwater biodiversity that depends on flooded fields. We propose spatially and seasonally targeted …

Huge congratulatios to Nga Yee Lai, who has successfully completed her oral examination with pass with corrections! Yee was the very first student to join Kaizen Conservation Group – she decided to join the group literally without anyone but Tatsuya, just …

Excited to share this work led by Josh Wilson, a PhD student Tatsuya co-supervised, where we compiled 23,865 drone-based bird images, captured using 21 different cameras across 11 countries, and labelled 4824 of them containing 49,990 birds from 101 species. To …

Always great to start the new year with a new group member! Patrick Connolly has just started his honours project supervised by Elize, Tatsuya, Rich Fuller, and Lily Bentley. His research focuses on conservation efforts for migratory terns in Australia that …

Excited to welcome another new member in our group! Takehiko Shimizu is a PhD candidate at Hokkaido University, Japan. He has joined our group as a visiting PhD student for one year. His research focuses on understanding how natural wetland loss …

Very delighted to annoouce a brandnew paper led by Violeta just published in Environmental Evidence! Despite growing evidence showing the importance of non-English-langauge evidence, environmental evidence syntheses still remain predominantly monolingual (English), potentially leading to biased results and misinforming policy decisions. …

Delighted to see this new publication nicely led by Marina Corella Tor! In this paper we examined international agreements aimed at conserving migratory bird species and found:• 49 agreements across 187 countries• Covering 1,677 species (86% of all migratory birds) But …

Big congratulations to Kelsey Hannah on successfully completing her PhD! She passed her examination with no correction and will likely be the first person in the world to receive a PhD on language barriers in conservation. Four years ago she was …

We are pleased to welcome two new group members! Waner Liang has just started her PhD supervised by Rich and Tatsuya. Her research will focus on understanding how migration distance, threat exposure, and population trends interact across global waterbird flyways. Mengshuai …

Excited to announce another important paper from us showing systematic barriers in academia, published in PLOS Biology. Women, non-native English speakers and researchers from low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? In this paper we found that women …