Unknown wonders: Christmas Island
Australia is famous for its natural beauty: the Great Barrier Reef, Uluru, Kakadu, the Kimberley. But what about the places almost no one goes? We asked ecologists, biologists and wildlife researchers…
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Australian endangered species: Christmas Island Shrew
It may be that there are no more shrews in Australia. There was only ever one representative, edging into the Australian political estate on the remote Christmas Island, closer to Java than any other…
Can we resolve the ‘peak everything’ problem?
With world population exceeding seven billion, there is renewed interest in the limits to growth concept first articulated by the Club of Rome in the 1970s. How can a growing population with growing affluence…
Australian endangered species: Christmas Island Frigatebird
Darwinian politics: it’s survival of the fittest for the top job in the Territory
Field of nightmares: gamba grass in the Top End
Threatened species: we’re failing on morality and policy
Crocodile culls won’t solve crocodile attacks
Endangered species: what makes the list?
Saving Australian endangered species – a policy gap and political opportunity
Research
Tree frogs quench thirst by chilling out
Australian green tree frogs survive the dry season by harnessing the same phenomenon that fogs up eyeglasses in winter…
Australians back paying Indigenous people to manage land
Australians are willing to pay up to 50 times what they currently do for Indigenous people to manage their traditional land…
Spend more on conservation in Sao Tome, Kyrgyzstan, despite corruption
Sustaining conservation funding to Third World countries could help to preserve some of the world’s rarest species, a new…
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Authors
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Aaron Petty
Postdoctoral Fellow in Human Ecology
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Andrew Campbell
Director, Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods
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Catherine Koerner
Research Fellow in Social Policy
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Grahame Webb
Adjunct Professor, Environment & Livelihoods
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Jason Alexandra
Honorary Fellow
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John Woinarski
Professor (conservation biology)
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Judit Szabo
Research Fellow, Threatened Bird Conservation
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Ken Parish
Lecturer
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Rolf Gerritsen
Professorial Research Fellow, Northern Institute
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Sharon Bell
Deputy Vice Chancellor
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Stephen Garnett
Professor of Biodiversity and Sustainability
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Sue Smith
Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Development, School of Education
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Vanessa Adams
Research Fellow, Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods