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• Is the IPCC Finally Catching up with the True Severity of Climate Change?

  

  I’m not in any way formally involved in either the IPCC or IPBES, although I’ve been involved indirectly in analysing many elements of both the language of the... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• A Domesticated Planet

  

  The abundance of wild animals is regressing speedily as the number of domesticated animals and persons keeps escalating. Such demographic contrast signals that... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• … Some (models) Are Useful

  

  As someone who writes a lot of models — many for applied questions in conservation management (e.g., harvest quotas, eradication targets, minimum viable... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss LXVI

  

  Here is the third set of biodiversity cartoons for 2021. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Killing (feral) Cats Quickly (and Efficiently)

  

  I’m pleased to announce the publication of a paper led by Kathryn Venning (KV) that was derived from her Honours work in the lab. Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Conservation (but Were Afraid to Ask)

  

  While some of us still might imagine the conservationist as a fancy explorer discovering new species in a remote corner of the world, or collecting samples whil... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Mapping the ‘super-highways’ the First Australians Used to Cross the Ancient Land

  

  Author provided/The Conversation, Author provided There are many hypotheses about where the Indigenous ancestors first settled in Australia tens of thousands... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Population of First Australians Grew to Millions, Much More Than Previous...

  

  Shutterstock/Jason Benz Bennee We know it is more than 60,000 years since the first people entered the continent of Sahul — the giant landmass that connected Ne... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• No, You Can’t Argue the Medieval Warm Period is Evidence That Today’s Climate...

  

  As this reconstructed village shows, Vikings made it as far as Newfoundland during the Medieval warm period. Wikimedia/Dylan Kereluk, CC BY-SA Frédérik Saltré,... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Attack of the Alien Invaders: Pest Plants and Animals Leave a Frightening $1.7...

  

  Shutterstock They’re one of the most damaging environmental forces on Earth. They’ve colonised pretty much every place humans have set foot on the planet. Yet... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• The Biggest and Slowest Don’t Always Bite It First

  

  For many years I’ve been interested in modelling the extinction dynamics of megafauna. Apart from co-authoring a few demographically simplified (or largely... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• One Trillion Dollars!

  

  Or thereabouts.Let’s step back to 2015. In a former life when I was at another institution, I had the immense fortune and pleasure to spend six months on... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• How to Avoid Reduce the Probability of Being Killed by a Shark

  

  Easy. Don’t go swimming/surfing/snorkelling/diving in the ocean.“Oh, shit”Sure, that’s true, but if you’re like many Australians, the sea is not just a beautifu... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• A Perfect Storm of Global Ineptitude

  

  Given the ‘success’ (i.e., a lot of people seem to be reading it) of our recent Ghastly Future paper, I thought it would be interesting to go back and have a... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss LXV

  

  Here is the second set of biodiversity cartoons for 2021. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Recreational Hunting, Conservation and Livelihoods: No Clear Evidence Trail

  

  Enrico Di Minin, University of Helsinki; Anna Haukka, University of Helsinki; Anna Hausmann, University of Helsinki; Christoph Fink, University of Helsinki;... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Conservation Paradox – the Pros and Cons of Recreational Hunting

  

  The recovery of species such as mountain zebra (Equus zebra) was partly supported by the economic benefits generated by trophy hunting. Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Job: Research Associate in Mammalian Morphology-Environment Interactions

  

  This might be a little outside the realms of ‘conservation’ per se, but put has a lot of ecology-evolution components, with spin-off applications to modern... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Citizens Ask the Experts in Climate-change Communication

  

  In the second of two consecutive interviews with climate-change experts (see the first one here), readers of the Spanish magazine Quercus have a chat with... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Ancient Bones — How Old?

  

  Radiocarbon (14C) dating was developed by Nobel-Prize winning chemist Willard Libby, and has become the predominant method to build chronologies of ancient... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2021 ENVIRONMENT