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• Look at the Whale (while We Wipe out Everything Else)

  

  Modified from Raeside (Victoria Times Colonist)I’ve tended to stay out of the ‘cetacean wars’ over the years because of the politics, emotions and vested... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• South Australia’s Tattered Environmental Remains

  

  South Australia State budget percentage expenditures for health, education and environmentYesterday I gave the second keynote address at the South Australia... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• The Environmental Abbott-oir

  

  “What?”, my wife exclaimed, “Is this guy Satan1 himself?”. Within 6 months in office, the Abbott-oir has: attempted to remote World Heritage protection for a... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• The Lengths Abbott Will Go to Destroy Environmentalism

  

  Over at ALERT (Alliance of Leading Environmental Researchers Thinkers), Bill Laurance has highlighted yet another major blow to environmentalism in... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XXIII

  

  Here are another 6 biodiversity cartoons for your conservation pleasure/pain (see full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here). Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Eye on the Taiga

  

  Dun! Dun, dun, dun! Dun, dun dun! Dun, dun, daaaaah!I’ve waited nearly two years to do that, with possibly our best title yet for a peer-reviewed paper: Eye on... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• If Biodiversity is So Important, Why is Europe Not Languishing?

  

  I don’t often respond to many comments on this blog unless they are really, really good questions (and if I think I have the answers). Even rarer is devoting... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Lose Biodiversity and You’ll Get Sick

  

  Here’s a (paraphrased) recommendation I did recently for F1000 about a cool avenue of research I’ve been following for a few years now. Very interesting, but... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Alliance of Leading Environmental Researchers and Thinkers

  

  If you’ve been following this blog or my Twitter feed over the last few weeks, you’ve surely noticed a few references to A.L.E.R.T. – the Alliance of Leading... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Upcoming Conservation, Ecology and Modelling Conferences

  

  Our lab just put together a handy list of upcoming ecology, conservation and modelling conferences around the world in 2014. Others might also find it useful. Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Abbott’s ‘No More Parks’ Vow a Bad Move

  

  Published simultaneously on ALERT:–An international scientific group has decried Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s recent ‘no more parks’ pledge, saying i... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Australia’s (latest) War on the Environment

  

  Yes, the signs were there, but they weren’t clandestine messages writ in the stars or in the chaos of tea-leaf dregs. We saw this one coming, but Australians... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Biodiversity Needs More Than Just Unwanted Leftovers

  

  The real measure of conservation progress, on land or in the sea, is how much biodiversity we save from threatening processes. Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Are We Speaking the Same Ecological Language?

  

  The simple answer to that question is ‘no bloody way’.In the last few days a paper we’ve been working on for years has just appeared online, and lead author... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Incentivise to Keep Primary Forests Intact

  

  The Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. ButlerI know – ‘incentivise’ is one of those terrible wank words of business speak. But to be heard by the... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XXII

  

  Here are another 6 biodiversity cartoons while I prepare for yet another trip overseas (see full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendi... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• We’re Sorry, but 50/500 is Still Too Few

  

  Some of you who are familiar with my colleagues’ and my work will know that we have been investigating the minimum viable population size concept for years... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Terrestrial Biodiversity’s Only Chance is Avoided Deforestation

  

  Today I was shocked, stunned and pleasantly (for a change) surprised. Australia has its first ‘avoided deforestation’ carbon farming project. Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Noisy Oceans

  

  Killer whales are social animals that navigate all oceans and seas between the Arctic and Antarctica – they can be regarded eusocial since reproduction ceases... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• You Know It’s Hot When It’s Too Hot to …..

  

  © T. BrandonMy post’s title might be a good candidate title for a punk song in the 2030s (maybe by a re-incarnation of the Dead Kennedys). Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT