Here are five surprising facts about coastal erosion, reefs and nature-based solutions that may surprise you. In particular, how much you rely on wildlife conservationWhy is animal conservation important? Animal …
Another day, another scientific paper implying that we should feel guilty about hunting prehistoric animals. Well apart from unnecessarily triggering people’s eco-anxiety, let’s be clear: humans are not responsible for …
Culture is the thread that binds a population to its country through survival. For Australian First Nations people, their aboriginality is a 65,000 year contract with nature. But nature is …
Here are some of the various subjects I’ve been reading about lately. Three articles on animal autonomy, whale personhood and eating rats. All are very enlightening ideas that relate to …
Whale sharks are massive energy-crunching behemoths that, ironically, spend their lives in the most nutrient-poor oceans. Why? Here’s the first paradox of ecology that stumps most people. The richest, most …
This week, a paper appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal (de Kock et al 2023) [1]. The researchers found that generations of turtles had been …
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Why are cuckoos important?
Common Cuckoos are an intercontinental migrant that join a throng of other European birds making their biannual journey to and from Africa. Hearing the first spring cuckoo call is always emotional. …
What was thrilling about reading Wohlleben’s The Power of Trees was to expand on a notion I covered in a recent blog. That unlike animals, the ‘brain’ of trees – …
Conversations about my book often come around to the question of: ‘What to do about introduced species?’ (especially in Australia). Or, about the benefits (or otherwise) of tree-planting. Here are …
In the last few days, three people have separately sent me this new climate paper Schmitz et al. (2023), just published in the journal Nature [1]. Like the study I …
