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• 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

• Essential Role of Carnivores on the Wane

  

  © Luca Galuzzi http://www.galuzzi.itThis interesting review has just come out in Science, and because I was given a heads-up about it, I decided to do a F1000... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• More Species = More Resilience

  

  While still ostensibly ‘on leave’ (side note: Does any scientist really ever take a proper holiday? Perhaps a subject for a future blog post), I cannot resist... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2014 ENVIRONMENT

• Influential Conservation Papers of 2013

  

  This is a little bit of a bandwagon – the ‘retrospective’ post at the end of the year – but this one is not merely a rehash I’ve stuff I’ve already covered. Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Work-life ‘balance’ – Can Academics Achieve It?

  

  A little over a week ago I was asked by the Royal Institution of Australia (RiAus) to sit on a panel with Professor Tanya Munro to speak about achieving that... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Biowealth: All Creatures Great and Small

  

  “So consider the crocodiles, sharks and snakes, the small and the squirmy, the smelly, slimy and scaly. Consider the fanged and the hairy, the ugly and the... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• King for a Day – What Conservation Policies Would You Make?

  

  I have been thinking a lot lately about poor governance and bad choices when it comes to biodiversity conservation policy. Perhaps its all that latent anger... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Medieval Canada Threatens Global Biodiversity

  

  Artists, poets and musicians make us feel, viscerally, how people destroy what they do not understand. Logic and observation lead E. O. Wilson to conclude: ‘If... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2013 ENVIRONMENT