Have you ever wondered, where are the teachers, doctors and fire fighters in conservationWhy is animal conservation important? Animal conservation is important, because animals are the only mechanism to create …
A couple of interesting studies came out this week. If any of you have read Wildlife in the Balance you may recall me talking about the number of whales in …
I’m writing this in the noisy departure lounge of Nadi Airport, Fiji. The plane is delayed a couple of hours, so I thought I’d start thinking about one of the …
For the last 10 years I’ve been privileged to know film-makers Nick Hayward (Platypus Guardians, Quoll Farm) and director Mark Pearce. While we worked on a series of short films …
The other day I wrote an article about scientific catastrophising. In How to Survive the Next 100 Years: Lessons from Nature I’ve also delved into how news algorithms amplifyAmplification (of …
I’ve been away for a couple of weeks taking a group of friends and family to Fiji so this is just a quick udpate. I don’t normally do tours outside …
Last week I was delighted to be invited onto this forum, alongside Marc Oremus of the ShellBank (Turtle) Project, Tia Bool of Project Restore and Matt Singleton from the Odonata Foundation. …
If any of you have followed my writing for long, you’ll know I bestow a grim power on plants. As nature’s first recipients of the Sun’s eroding energy they become …
We’re back in the Banda Sea in November spotting magnificent Blue Whales. We still have one cabin left by the way. Let me know soon if you’d like to join …
For years, conservation has been corporatised with the perpetrators of extinction often given a leading role. The Tasmanian salmon farming industry are among stakeholders in the national recovery plan for …