Animals don’t compete with humans and successful animals don’t compete with each other. Competition theory may be one of ecology’s failures. It’s not that it’s incorrect. It describes one mechanism …
Conservation principles
Deep sea mining is an ocean climate catastrophe because of the release of thousands of years of ecosystem-disrupting chemicals into the oceans. Would you be surprised if I told you, …
Why are Cat Ba Langurs important and why should we care if this species goes extinct? No wildlife exists unless its ancestors lived in harmony with their surroundings for millions …
Nature-based solutions are messy and unpredictable but it’s okay
Nature-based solutions are messy. You already know this … just look at a building site. Humans are animals and like every other creature on the planet, it’s in our nature …
What effect does stress have on animals? More than you can imagine. Recently, scientists have started to identify the major cause of stress in animals and what they’ve discovered might …
The annals of 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 …
If you’re anything like me, you may not have spent much time thinking about the question ‘why is wildlife conservationWhy is animal conservation important? Animal conservation is important, because animals …
The 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 …
It’s a tough job conserving wild animals. The owners of Artemis Station know this better than most. For years, Artemis have been custodians, responsible for saving the rare Golden-shouldered Parrot. …
Book review of Novacene I was introduced to James Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis at University in the mid-1990s. Even back then, his theory that Earth was a self-regulating biosphere, was identified …