As a major conference on the global biodiversity crisis opens in Montreal, a conservation biologist explains how ideas about protecting nature have evolved over the past 40 years.
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Evolution by natural selection is a potent agent of change, allowing species to adapt to new and changing environments. But is it sustainable?
We can use AI to protect nature and human health. But first, we have to expand AI beyond being entirely human-centred.
A long-term study of wild animal populations shows each generation is on average almost 20% genetically ‘better’ than their parents at surviving and reproducing.
New research showed a type of wasp which eats its own siblings.
An Indigenous-led effort to increase caribou abundance and cultural practices like hunting is successfully increasing the caribou population
Species are declared extinct when there have been no verifiable sightings for 50 years. Declaring a species extinct has implications for conservation efforts and policies.
Most people try their best to avoid snakes. This snake photographer couple spends their free time searching for them.
Want to understand your local environment better? Look to the birds.
The key to protecting wolverines around the world is to reduce trapping, minimize predator control pressures, and to protect and connect large blocks of intact habitat they need to survive.
Labor and the Greens launched environmental policies last week. We take a close look at what was promised, and if they’re enough to tackle Australia’s extinction crisis.
The UK wants gardeners to stop thinking of slugs and snails as pests and to embrace garden biodiversity. Is it worth considering in Australia?
Playing the sounds of the sea can attract lost baby oysters to join the restoration of oyster reefs.
Literary texts are useful for environmental communication and can deal with the complexity of climate change.
Plankton-eating sharks are struggling to navigate crowded ocean highways, a new study suggests.
We don’t have to passively sit back and watch Australia’s species and ecosystems die. Here are five concrete steps the next government should take.
We compiled the first list of Antarctic species and where they were first found. This knowledge means we can now protect all of the icy continent’s species.
The goal of our new web app is to help users engage with their elected representatives and put imperilled species on the political agenda this election and beyond.
More than half of all crocodile species are a high priority for conservation according to the assessment.
Parks and refuges are important for conservation, but without connections, they’re like islands. Linking them by protecting land in between makes it possible for wildlife to move over bigger areas.
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University
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Professor of Conservation Biology, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer in the School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University
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Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University
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Professor in Conservation Science, School of Ecosystem and Forest Science, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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ARC Future Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer, Public Sector Management, School of Business, UNSW Sydney
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Models Theme Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University
