With global ecotourism one of the fastest growing sectors of the travel industry [1] and human recreation one of the leading causes of a global restructuring of animal distribution [2], …
Love, death and sex: curious cases of animal valentine. Debauch acts of sexual deviance, exploitation, adultery, self-harm and even cannibalism, nature knows no bounds.
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, …
Ethan Linck’s Cataclysms to Desolate the World is a beautiful piece of nature writing about the loss of forest birds on Guam and the impact that introduced tree snakes have …
If we wait for proof to make environmental decisions, we’ll fail to reverse the sixth mass extinctionAnimal life hasn’t existed for very long on planet Earth. In the last 500 …
How did life begin? I was inspired by a video posted online [1] that accompanies a new paper showing tectonic plate movement over the last billion years. It’s always interesting …
A study recently published in the journal of Functional Ecology shows us how large fruit-eating animals can be responsible for massively enhancing forest nutrientA substance that contains the raw materials …
Ecology is a complex science and so often, our simplest assumptions about how things work, don’t hold up in practice. Take sharks for example. How do you reduce shark attacks? …
It’s inevitable that at some stage, someone will say to me “why are you making animal conservationWhy is animal conservation important? Animal conservation is important, because animals are the only …
During the last ice-ageA period of reduction in Earth’s temperature of between about 4–7 degrees that resulted in the rapid expansion of ice sheets and glaciation of much of the …
