I’ve been asked, is the ocean more important than land? This really depends on your context (as I discussed in this previous blog “Is the Ocean or Land more Important?“). …
At a time when much of the world is busy rewilding, some Australia’s conservationists want to kill millions of kangaroos including Red Kangaroo, the country’s largest remaining megafaunaThe largest animals …
Science Daily recently published a piece titled “Study challenges ecology’s ‘Field of Dreams’ hypothesis”. The hypothesis, put simply, is if you build a habitat, the animals will come. The article …
The ABC’s Landline program published an article last week on the rise of Plague Locusts in Australia. This forecast the possibility of the worst plagues since the 1970s. There was …
Climate change is exacerbating the displacement of a single animal species, on a scale our planet has never experienced before. In an interview with Bill Gates on CBS news, Gates …
How many animals are there in the world can be expressed as number of individuals, number of species and biomassThe weight of living organisms. Biomass can be measured in relation …
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], …
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 …
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 …
