The ABC’s Landline program published an article last week on the rise of Plague Locusts in Australia. This forecast the possibility of the worst plagues since the 1970s. There was …
For obvious reasons, there is a lot of talk at the moment about the risk of getting diseases from animals. We degrade habitatsWhat is habitat for animals and people? Habitat, …
If we wait for proof to make environmental decisions, we’ll fail to reverse the sixth mass extinction and will rapidly destroy our chance of survival. Proof is a panacea, because …
It’s inevitable that at some stage, someone will say to me “why are you making animal conservation all about humans?” I sympathise with this view. When I see the suffering …
A new paper published in the journal Ecological Indicators proposes that we use indices of species’ potential range to inform conservation status (Mason et al, 2021). Findings like these should …
A recent paper published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution sets out the increasing evidence that loss of large vertebrates in particular, is having massive impacts on ecosystem processes. The …
New research shows the impact of climate change on forests is to “scramble the biological clock of the forest floor“. The study shows how the change in timing of various …
The life-histories of insects and vertebrates are coupled. Predator and prey cannot exist without one-another. Species richnessThe number of species within a given area. Note, this is often confused with …
Climate models routinely overlook biodiversity and animal impacts. So, when scientists try to explain disparities or conclusions, they often resort to descriptions of physical or chemical processes … whereas its …
A paper just published A 2021 Horizon Scan of Emerging Global Biological Conservation Issues (Sutherland et al 2020) identifies “Deoxygenation” impacts on Coral Reef Health and “Increases in Dissolved Iron …