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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Sharks scare dugongs and increase seagrass resilience to climate change
A paper just published in the Journal of Animal Ecology [1] looks at how sharks scare dugongs and increase seagrass in a tropical environment. While their modelThe process, either mathematically …
When it comes to nature it seems, the more we learn, the less we know. Beaked whales are a group of cetaceans (the collective name for whales and dolphins) that make …
BiodiversityWhat is the definition of biodiversity? When we ask, what is the definition of biodiversity? It depends on what we want to do with it. The term is widely and …
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Animals control the health of the sea: it’s why tuna are much better off in the sea
I’ve been asked, is the ocean more important than land? This really depends on your context (as I discussed in this previous blog “Is the Ocean or Land more Important?“). …
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Killing kangaroos destroys Australia’s environment. It makes no sense!
At a time when much of the world is busy rewilding, some Australia’s conservationists want to kill millions of kangaroos including Red Kangaroo, the country’s largest remaining megafaunaThe largest animals …
