Our research looked at data from the government’s annual baking competition. Upon close analysis, we find a dangerous lack of diversity and biases towards cute, cuddly mammals.
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Despite their sharp-looking pincers, earwigs have a reputation for being tender parents.
Atlantic rainforests once lined the island’s west coast – and could one day return.
Tigers exist in South Africa because they’re being intensively farmed for commercial trade in live individuals or their body parts.
A new gecko species in New Zealand was named te mokomoko a Tohu in consultation with a local Māori tribe. This could be a good example for how taxonomists might approach the naming of new species.
Destructive mining in Congo’s protected areas is rampant because it generates money for citizens, officials and armed groups.
The findings suggest that poaching rates are lower where there is strong national governance and levels of local human development are higher.
The idea that human activity threatens nature, and that it is important to protect wild places, dates back to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
Scientists use biologging devices to track animal behaviour – here are four times where it has improved our understanding of nature.
Rodents are the most numerous – and least studied – of all Earth’s mammals.
Environmental DNA like skin cells, blood and faeces can be extracted from water, soil, ice or air to provide a good snapshot of an ecosystem.
In order to meet its 2030 biodiversity targets, Canada is heavily relying on Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas, which could do more harm than good for First Nations, Inuit and Métis.
Global summits to arrest Earth’s deteriorating health look increasingly farcical.
As protected and conserved areas increase, an equity-based approach that respects Indigenous rights can help bring the transformative changes we need to halt and reverse biodiversity loss.
Human rights law could be used to make sure countries abide by the agreement made at the COP15 summit.
The UN biodiversity summit COP15 in Montreal is over. Here’s what should happen next.
Dendrobium orchids are familiar to most people in bouquets, but they are in high demand in China for use in traditional medicines. Can Beijing find ways to grow these threatened plants sustainably?
Amphibians have been devastated by a chytrid fungus pandemic. Researchers immunized California red-legged frogs in Yosemite to give them a fighting chance at survival, with surprising results.
Human-wildlife conflict can undermine public support for conservation.
Digital technologies have the potential to yield positive results, if co-developed and used ethically with Indigenous communities.
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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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, 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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Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, Deakin University
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ARC Future Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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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
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Honorary Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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Professor in Ecology, Charles Sturt University
