I had the most extraordinary encounter the other day which got me thinking. Can we talk to animals through body language? It was in Melbourne over Easter. We decided to …
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Why are Aardvarks important?
Many animals are present temporarily, like migratory birds or even wildebeest, while insects and rodents are tiny and fastidious. Aardvarks on the other hand are ancient. Indeed, there are fossil …
Thank you Rod Holden for sharing this paper from The Lancet last week. The piece is titled ‘National responsibility for ecological breakdown: a fair-shares assessment of resource use‘. It identifies …
Amazing and vital work on 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 …
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Why are Orangutans important?
The power of orangutans in ecosystems Have you ever asked, or answered the question ‘why are orangutans important?’ Because for most people it may never have occurred to them, yet …
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Why is Queensland flooding? Koalas may be your best hope
Why is Queensland flooding? Climate models couldn’t predict it. Climate scientists are saying that the water cycle is intensifying twice as fast as models suggest. Many of us who observe …
A paper just published in the journal Ecography identifies the impact of animals on global ecosystem processes. Researchers used data from the International Union for the ConservationWhy is animal conservation …
Will humans survive the next hundred years? This is one of the more common questions I get asked. The benefit of understanding how nature works and its unyielding power is …
The scale, magnitude and intensity of animal impactWhat is Animal Impact? Without wildlife, Earth would not be habitable for humans, because it’s animals that stabilise ecosystems. It’s a fundamental law of …
A recent study published in the Journal of Paleoecology looked at the size of fish in the last interglacial period. It found that anchovies were less numerous. So, researchers conclude, …
