On Tuesday 8 February 2022, CELCE and the Extinction Studies DTP co-hosted a fascinating seminar led by Professor Helen Roy (which you can watch here). Hailing from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (https://www.ceh.ac.uk), Helen principally discussed the relationships between invasive species and extinction, particularly in island systems, but...
21 February is International Mother language day, and 2022 is the beginning of UNESCO's International Decade of Indigenous Languages. Dr Diane Nelson writes a post to help understand issues of language loss, shift, and revitalisation.
Back in mid-December after two months fieldwork on Mehri and Shehret in Dhofar, southern Oman (see a map here: LSAM_NB-07), I began to think about ways in which my fieldwork has changed since I first worked in the western mountains of the Yemen Arab Republic in the late 1980s. I...