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• 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

• Hades, Fossilised Fat-parrot Shit and Threatened Bats

  

  WTF? © P. BendleSounds like a Monty Python sketch, doesn’t it? But no, it’s about the wonderful complexity of ecology.An interesting, and very weird paper just... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Why Do Conservation Scientists Get out of Bed?

  

  Don’t be distracted © motivatedphotos.comI have, on many occasions, been faced with a difficult question after giving a public lecture. Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• No-extinction Targets Are Destined to Fail

  

  I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while, and now finally I have been given the opportunity to put my ideas ‘down on paper’ (seems like a bit of an... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Ecology is a Tower of Babel

  

  In his song ‘Balada de Babel’, the Spanish artist Luis Eduardo Aute sings several lyrics in unison with the same melody. The effect is a wonderful mess. This... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XVI

  

  While in transit between tropical and temperate Australia, here’s the latest batch of 6 biodiversity cartoons (see full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Native Invaders Divide Loyalties

  

  California sea lion at Bonneville fish ladder. Credit: U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationAs if to mimic the weirder and weirder weather... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• The Climate of Climate Change

  

  The primary scientific literature on climate change spawns hundreds of debates on an array of topics. When the technical debate among experts,and the obvious... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2012 ENVIRONMENT