I’ve been a bit busy the last few days but articles keep coming and in this age of “nature-based solutions” it seems everyone has an answer but animals are always …
Conservation principles
They say a picture paints a thousand words but acoustics is more powerful than any other sense. It conveys a vast density of information that, for the most part, is …
Koala ConservationWhy is animal conservation important? Animal conservation is important, because animals are the only mechanism to create biodiversity, which is the mechanism that creates a habitable planet for humans. …
How Aboriginal people made the most successful ecosystems
Humans are animals. It seems such an obvious thing to say but we don’t behave, think or talk as though we believe it. And this has a profound effect on …
There is a lovely statement in the opening paragraph of Tyson Yunkaporta’s book Sand Talk. It says that ‘fifty per cent of the echidna brain is used for some of …
Tuna’s Last Stand A really well researched (long read) in Hakai Magazine about the rise of the tinned tuna industry and how this has depleted larger species, leaving Skipjack. The …
A paper just published in the journal Nature [1] has reviewed hundreds of studies on the impact of humans on the movement of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish and arthropods. …
Are humans top predators? We were before our brains shrunk
One of most exciting studies I’ve read this year just popped up in the journal Quaternary and was summarised on Phys.org [1]. Researchers suggest that human brain size has changed …
Top 5 reasons to conserve ocean animals and ecosystems
Why is ocean conservation important? The temperature, chemistry and nutrientA substance that contains the raw materials for life. At a chemical level, these are contained inside compounds that are absorbed …
Top 5 reasons to conserve land animals and ecosystems
EcosystemsHow ecosystems function An ecosystem is a community of lifeforms that interact in such an optimal way that how ecosystems function best, is when all components (including humans and other …