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• Why Populations Can’t Be Saved by a Single Breeding Pair

  

  © Reuters/Thomas MukoyaI published this last week on The Conversation, and now reproducing it here for CB.com readers.— Two days ago, the last male northern... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• Predicting Sustainable Shark Harvests When Stock Assessments Are Lacking

  

  © Andrew FoxI love it when a good collaboration bears fruit, and our latest paper is a good demonstration of that principle.It all started a few years ago with... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• The Effective Scientist

  

  What is an effective scientist? The more I have tried to answer this question, the more it has eluded me. Before I even venture an attempt, it is necessary to... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• Penguins Cheated by Ecosystem Change

  

  Jorge Drexler sings “… I was committed not to see what I saw, but sometimes life is more complex than what it looks like …”*. This excerpt by the Oscar-winning... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XLVII

  

  The next set of six biodiversity cartoons for 2018. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• Our Global System-of-systems

  

  I’ve just read an excellent paper that succinctly, eloquently, and wisely summarised the current predicament of our highly interconnected, global, complex... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• Offshore Energy & Marine Spatial Planning

  

  I have the pleasure (and relief) of announcing a new book that’s nearly ready to buy, and I think many readers of CB.com might be interested in what it... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• Bring It Back

  

  Protea compacta in fynbos, a form of shrubland at Soetanysberg, South Africa. Photo: Brian van WilgenRestoration of lost habitats and ecosystems hits all the... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• Throwing the Nuclear Baby out with the Fossil-fuel Bathwater

  

  A really important paper was just published in Science Advances by Elizabeth Anderson colleagues.The team’s paper, Fragmentation of Andes-to-Amazon... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• Drivers of Protected-area Effectiveness in Africa

  

  Subtropical and Tropical Moist Broadleaf Forest of Africa with 224 parks surrounded by a 10-km buffer area. © 2016 Society for Conservation Biology. Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XLVI

  

  The first set of biodiversity cartoons for 2018. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• When Devils and Thylacines Went Extinct

  

  We’ve just published an analysis of new radiocarbon dates showing that thylacines (Tasmanian ‘tigers’, Thylacinus cynocephalus) and Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilu... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• To Share, Or Not to Share, is No Longer the Question

  

  An edited version of a snippet from my upcoming book, The Effective Scientist (due out in March 2018).—I tend to assume tacitly that my collaborators are... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• Influential Conservation Ecology Papers of 2017

  

  As I have done for the last four years (2016, 2015, 2014, 2013), here’s another retrospective list of the top 20 influential conservation papers of 2017 as... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2017 ENVIRONMENT

• Tiny, Symbiotic Organisms Protect Corals from Predation and Disease

  

  Hydrozoan polyps living on the surface of a coral (photo credit: S. Montano)Corals could have some unexpected allies to cope with the multi-faceted threats pose... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2017 ENVIRONMENT

• Giving a Monkey’s About Primate Conservation

  

  Concrete jungle. A Barbary macaque sits in a human-dominated landscape in Gibraltar. Photo: Silviu PetrovanSaving primates is a complicated business. Primates... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2017 ENVIRONMENT

• Research in Translation

  

  Do you enjoy the challenge of communicating complex scientific ideas and conservation issues to the general public? Current Conservation is looking for... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2017 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XLV

  

  The last set of biodiversity cartoons for 2017. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2017 ENVIRONMENT

• Microclimates: Thermal Shields Against Global Warming for Small Herps

  

  Thermal microhabitats are often uncoupled from above-ground air temperatures. A study focused on small frogs and lizards from the Philippines demonstrates that... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2017 ENVIRONMENT

• Ecologists Are Gender-biased

  

  © xkcd.comI normally don’t do this, but this is an extra-ordinary circumstance.As many of you are already aware, Franck Courchamp and I published a paper in... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2017 ENVIRONMENT