research Pest plants and animals cost Australia around $25 billion a year — and it will get worse 2 Aug 20212 Aug 2021 AAP Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University and Andrew Hoskins, CSIRO This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons licence. Read the original article. Shamefully, Australia has…
research The biggest and slowest don’t always bite it first 16 Apr 2021 For many years I've been interested in modelling the extinction dynamics of megafauna. Apart from co-authoring a few demographically simplified (or largely demographically free) models about how megafauna species could…
research Climate change and humans together pushed Australia’s biggest beasts to extinction 25 Nov 201926 Nov 2019 Over the last 60,000 years, many of the world’s largest species disappeared forever. Some of the largest that we generally call ‘megafauna’ were first lost in Sahul — the super-continent…
concepts What is a ‘mass extinction’ and are we in one now? 13 Nov 2019 (reproduced from The Conversation) -- For more than 3.5 billion years, living organisms have thrived, multiplied and diversified to occupy every ecosystem on Earth. The flip side to this explosion of…
policy Respecting Aboriginal culture through language 16 Oct 201916 Oct 2019 What's in a name? Well, rather a lot, I think. Names have meanings, and not just in the way that they tag people, places or objects. I am of the…
cartoons Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss LII 2 Jan 2019 [Reblogged from ConservationBytes.com] The first set of six biodiversity cartoons for 2019 to usher in the New Year. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. —…
