On November 5th I will be presenting a short talk at the Love your Wildlife Festival in Cygnet, Tasmania on the subject ‘Animals are not the Icing on the Cake.’ …
Happy new year. I trust you had a great break over the festive season and are looking forward to an exciting 2023. I’d like to invite you to join me …
Article by Stephen Webb, published in the South Sydney Herald. Today’s Bird of the Day, the noisy miner, was suggested by writer and ecologist Simon Mustoe, author of Wildlife in the …
It was Octopus Day yesterday so I looked out some footage I took in 2019 of a tropical octopus. What amazing creatures? Did you know, every one of the octopus’s …
The density of fish at marine parks like Ricketts Point, in northern Port Phillip Bay, peaks in the late summer and declines in winter. The contrast is stark. You can …
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Fish control starfish on the Great Barrier Reef
The Australian Institute of Marine Sciences claimed to be the first to demonstrate the role of fisheries in crown-of-thorns outbreaks. The fact that fish control starfish on the Great Barrier …
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 …
The headline of this article on Caribou triggered a thought about our use of these terms. When do we say conservationWhy is animal conservation important? Animal conservation is important, because …
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, …
A few local people have asked me what is going on regarding Port Phillip Bay, jellyfish, sea lettuce and bioluminescent algae at the moment. There seems to have been an …
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