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• Having More Tree Species Makes Us Wealthier

  

  As more and more empirical evidence pours in from all corners of the globe, we can only draw one conclusion about the crude measure of species richness (i.e.,... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Scaring Our Children with the Future

  

  I’ve written before about how we should all be substantially more concerned about the future than what we as a society appear to be. Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Translocations: the Genetic Rescue Paradox

  

  Harvesting and habitat alteration reduce many populations to just a few individuals, and then often extinction. A widely recommended conservation action is to... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• No Need for Disease

  

  It’s human nature to abhor admitting an error, and I’d wager that it’s even harder for the average person (psycho- and sociopaths perhaps excepted) to admit... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• ConservationBytes.com in Review

  

  The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for ConservationBytes.com.Here’s an excerpt: About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein ever... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XVII

  

  I’m winding down here for the year (although there might be a few more posts before the New Year), so here’s the latest batch of 6 biodiversity cartoons (see... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT, HUMOR, SCIENCE

• Rocking the Scientific Boat

  

  © C. SimpsonOne thing that has simultaneously amused, disheartened, angered and outraged me over the past decade or so is how anyone in their right mind could... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• The Biggest Go First

  

  © James CameronThe saying “it isn’t rocket science” is a common cliché in English to state, rather sarcastically, that something isn’t that difficult (with the... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Advice for Getting Your Dream Job in Conservation Science

  

  A few weeks ago I heard from an early-career researcher in the U.S. who had some intelligent things to say about getting jobs in conservation science based on... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Endangered Species: The Saiga Antelope

  

  Unique in its genus, the saiga antelope inhabits the steppes and semi-desert environments in two sub-species split between Kazakhstan (Saiga tatarica tatarica, ... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2012 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BIOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT

• Improving the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil

  

  RSPO – don’t be guilty of thisLaurance Pimm organise another excellent tropical conservation open-letter initiative. This follows our 2010 paper (Improving th... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Essential Predators

  

  © C. HiltonHere at ConservationBytes.com, My contributors and I have highlighted the important regulating role of predators in myriad systems. Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Protected Areas Work, but Only When You Put in the Effort

  

  Apologies for the delay in getting this latest post out. If you read my last one, you’ll know that I’ve been in the United Kingdom for the last week. Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• A Posthumous Citation Tribute for Sodhi

  

  I’m sitting at a friend’s house in Sydney writing this quick entry before jumping on a plane to London. It’s been a busy few days, and will be an even busier... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Toothed Conflict

  

  Left: An Anatolian shepherd (a Turkish breed improved in the USA) guiding a herd of boer goats whose flesh is much appreciated by people in Namibia and South... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Damned by Nature; Damned by Man

  

  I am a forest officer from India. I want to narrate a story. No, my story is not about elephants or tigers or snakes. Those stories about India are commonplace. Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• How to Write a Scientific Paper

  

  Several years ago, my long-time mate, colleague and co-director, Barry Brook, and I were lamenting how most of our neophyte PhD students were having a hard... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2012 SCIENCE

• Illegal Logging Thrives in Australia and New Zealand

  

  Through fraudulent permits and similar tactics, organized crime profits significantly from illegal logging. By Bill Laurance, James Cook University Illegal... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• The Biodiversity Club

  

  The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species uses 6 quantitative criteria to allocate species to 9 categories of... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Tropical Protected Areas Still in Trouble

  

  There’s nothing like a bit of good, intelligent and respectful debate in science. After the publication in Nature of our paper on tropical protected areas... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2012 ENVIRONMENT