BY
SIMON MUSTOE
Expert Ecologist, Consultant & Author
Next month, the Norwegian government is planning to capture up to a dozen Minke Whales and one by one, place them into a cage, sedate them and begin tests to expose them to loud noises such as naval sonar – noise that has been known to kill other species of …
BLOG – LESSONS FROM NATURE – by Simon Mustoe
Wildlife has a huge and immeasurable impact on the stability, health and functioning of ecosystems. For this reason, humanity cannot survive without wildlife. Wild animals turn dust into soil, carbon into food and the weather into a fair climate for living.
These are the stories untold – the reason why conservation is essential for our survival. The orangutan doesn’t simply depend on rainforest canopy structure, it creates the structure. We humans don’t simply depend on forests or coral reefs, we live among the animals that make those places habitable. In this blog I explore the many and varied ways we connect with nature. This reveals the link between the way we think, behave and act, and the very basis for our existence and survival as a species on Earth. But only as long as we are surrounded by a colourful and diverse abundance of other animals.
More on the importance of wildlife
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Our guests just returned from two weeks exploring one of the more remote corners of the Coral Triangle. We departed …
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I recently flew to Sydney to address the Club of United Business on lessons coral reefs could teach us about …
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This will be my last Bayside post for a while. On Saturday, sixteen of us are heading off to the …
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There is compelling evidence that urchin culls can actually be detrimental to coastal ecosystems. I realise this is not the …
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Just when I was beginning to think I might have found most things in the northern bay! But there is …
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Table of Contents Toggle Dawn snorkel at Ricketts Point on 4 Feb 2026Smallfin Clingfish Dawn snorkel at Ricketts Point on …
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It seems curious to place the importance of somewhere in cosmic terms. Physicist Professor Brian Cox believes that, while microbial …
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Thanks Judy for asking me to write this. It’s a common question: what is the best wind for snorkelling in …
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Summer water temperatures don’t seem to have climbed too high this year. After last year’s coral bleaching, it was nice …
Books, art, films and podcasts
I’ve been racking my brain to think whether I’ve ever laughed in a wildlife doco before. I don’t think I have. Could Prime’s Octopus (Jigsaw Productions) be the world’s first comedy wildlife film? I do believe so. In a world that’s got so serious it’s pure pleasure learning from the …
