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• MPs’ Ignorance Puts National Parks in Peril

  

  Led by Bill Laurance, our latest opinion editorial in the Higher Education supplement. Interestingly, it has already spawned a bilious and spittle-flecked... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• DNA Barcoding Plants with Citizen Science

  

  I was contacted recently by Oscar Jaslowski of Microryza (a web platform that allows scientists to post research ideas and collect contributions from web... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Biogeography Comes of Age

  

  This week has been all about biogeography for me. While I wouldn’t call myself a ‘biogeographer’, I certainly do apply a lot of the discipline’s techniques. Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Don’t Blame It on the Dingo

  

  Our postdoc, Tom Prowse, has just had one of the slickest set of reviews I’ve ever seen, followed by a quick acceptance of what I think is a pretty sexy paper. Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XX

  

  I can’t believe I’ve now done twenty of these – another 6 biodiversity cartoons while I’m travelling (see full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Ecologists: Join F1000Research’s Open Science Ecosystem

  

  The people at the new open-access journal F1000Research (a Faculty of 1000 publication) have asked me to help them announce their new deal for ecologists – no... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Shrinking Global Range Projected for the World’s Largest Fish

  

  © W. Osborn (AIMS)My recently finished PhD student, Ana Sequeira, has not only just had a superb paper just accepted in Global Change Biology, she’s recently... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Fast-lane Mesopredators

  

  © F. Fish http://goo.gl/rWG8fIAnother post from Alejandro Frid (a modified excerpt from a chapter of his forthcoming book).–I fall in love easy. Must be my... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Saving World’s Most Threatened Cat Requires Climate Adaptation

  

  © CSIC Andalusia Audiovisual Bank/H. GarridoThe Iberian lynx is the world’s most threatened cat, with recent counts estimating only 250 individuals surviving... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Guilty Until Proven Innocent

  

  The precautionary principle – the idea that one should adopt an approach that minimises risk – is so ingrained in the mind of the conservation scientist that... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Ecology: the Most Important Science of Our Times

  

  The title of this post is deliberately intended to be provocative, but stay with me – I do have an important point to make.I’m sure most every scientist in... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• The Economy Worse off Since 1978

  

  Can’t eat moneyI was only a little tacker in 1978, and as any little tacker, I was blissfully unaware that I had just lived through a world-changing event. Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Relaxed Laws Imperil Australian Wildlife

  

  Christmas Island pipistrelle bat (Pipistrellus murrayi). © M. SchultzOn the continuing theme of the demise of laws designed to protect Australian biodiversity... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Conservation and Ecology Journal Impact Factors 2012

  

  It’s the time of year that scientists love to hate – the latest (2012) journal ranking have been released by ISI Web of Knowledge. Many people despise this... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• I Love Biodiversity

  

  © G. GalliceA corker of an idea, and post, from Diogo Veríssimo.–I don’t like biodiversity. I like beef lasagna, I like the British museum and I like... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Australia’s National Parks Aren’t ‘national’ at All

  

  Following our The Conversation article a few weeks ago about the rapid demise of national parks in Australia, a few of us (me, Euan Ritchie Emma Johnston)... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Learning How to Fail

  

  On the way to work yesterday I was listening to ABC Radio National‘s Life Matters program hosted by Natasha Mitchell about how school children are now apparentl... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT, LIFE COACH

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XIX

  

  Here are 6 more biodiversity cartoons illustrating through humour the sad state of the natural world (see full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Conservation Hypocrisy

  

  telegraph.co.ukAnother soul-searching post from Alejandro Frid.–Confession time. This is going to be delicate, and might even ruffle some big feathers. Still,... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Our National Parks Must Be More Than Playgrounds Or Paddocks

  

  It’s interesting when a semi-random tweet by a colleague ends up mobilising a small army of scientists to get pissed off enough to co-write an article. Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2013 ENVIRONMENT