Bradshaw
Highlighting, discussing and critiquing the science of conservation that has demonstrated measurable, positive effects for global biodiversity.
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Conservation Bytes
http://ConservationBytes.com/
Highlighting, discussing and critiquing the science of conservation that has demonstrated measurable, positive effects for global biodiversity.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 654 )
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Potential Conservation Nightmare Unfolding in South Africa
Like most local tragedies, it seems to take some time before the news really grabs the overseas audience by the proverbial goolies. Read more
Posted on 30 October 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XXXIX
Six more biodiversity cartoons coming to you all the way from Sweden (where I’ve been all week). See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity... Read more
Posted on 20 October 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
World’s Greatest Conservation Tragedy You’ve Probably Never Heard of
I admit that I might be stepping out on a bit of a dodgy limb by claiming ‘greatest’ in the title. That’s a big call, and possibly a rather subjective one at... Read more
Posted on 12 October 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
Massive Yet Grossly Underestimated Global Costs of Invasive Insects
Portrait of a red imported fire ant Solenopsis invicta. This species arrived to the southeastern USA from South America in the 1930s. Specimen from... Read more
Posted on 04 October 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
Valuing What We Have to Prevent It from Disappearing
29 year-old ‘Tembo’ shows us his grinders. Groom Anton is making sure Tembo remains well-rewarded for his good behaviour © CJA BradshawI acknowledge that I’ve... Read more
Posted on 30 September 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
Transition from the Anthropocene to the Minicene
Going, going … © CJA BradshawI’ve just returned from a life-changing trip to South Africa, not just because it was my first time to the continent, but also... Read more
Posted on 24 September 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
Staggering Rhino Poaching in the Kruger
I have the immense honour and pleasure of attending the University of Pretoria’s Mammal Research Institute 50th Anniversary Celebration conference currently... Read more
Posted on 14 September 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
Conservation is Many Things to Many People
I’ve never really entered the so-called (i.e., contrived) ‘debate’ regarding New Conservation, because I’ve always felt in my gut that it was a false dichotomy... Read more
Posted on 06 September 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
Inexorable Rise of Human Population Pressures in Africa
© Nick BrandtI’ve been a bit mad preparing for an upcoming conference, so I haven’t had a lot of time lately to blog about interesting developments in the... Read more
Posted on 31 August 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XXXVIII
Another six biodiversity cartoons for your midday chuckle & groan. There’s even one in there that takes the mickey out of some of my own research (see if you ca... Read more
Posted on 25 August 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
Rich and Stable Communities Most Vulnerable to Change
I’ve just read an interesting new study that was sent to me by the lead author, Giovanni Strona. Published the other day in Nature Communications, Strona ... Read more
Posted on 16 August 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
Keeping India’s Forests
I’ve just returned from a short trip to the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, Karnataka, one of India’s elite biological research... Read more
Posted on 08 August 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
Journal Ranks 2015
Back in February I wrote about our new bibliometric paper describing a new way to rank journals, which I still contend is a fairer representation of relative... Read more
Posted on 25 July 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
More Things Stay the Same, More We Retrogress
Within six months of Abbott and the Coalition seizing power in the 2013 Australian election, decades—if not centuries—of environmental damage and retrograde... Read more
Posted on 20 July 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
Seeing the Wood for the Trees
The Forest Synopsis: Photo of the Anamalai Tiger Reserve, India, by Claire WordleyFrom the towering kapoks of South America to the sprawling banyans of South... Read more
Posted on 11 July 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
George Hubert Wilkins — Australia’s First Whitefella Conservationist?
As many of you know, I have held the ‘Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change’ at the University of Adelaide since January 2015. My colleague and friend,... Read more
Posted on 06 July 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
Subconsciously Sexist?
It was with some consternation that I processed some recent second-hand scuttlebutt about my publishing history with respect to gender balance. Read more
Posted on 29 June 2016 SELF EXPRESSION -
Buying Time
Originally published in the Otago Daily Times by Tom McKinlay—If we don’t act soon, the world we leave our children will be in a sorry state indeed, leading... Read more
Posted on 26 June 2016 SELF EXPRESSION -
Extinction Synergy: Deadly Combination of Human Hunting & Climate Change Wrote...
Here’s a paper we’ve just had published in Science Advances (Synergistic roles of climate warming and human occupation in Patagonian megafaunal extinctions... Read more
Posted on 19 June 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
What Immigration Means for Australia’s Climate-change Policies
After dipping my foot into the murky waters of human population demography a few years ago, I’m a little surprised that I find myself here again. Read more
Posted on 12 June 2016 ENVIRONMENT