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These unusual and endangered creatures now face a new threat.
China offers an alternative to traditional donors and investors in low- and middle-income countries. Adding to its appeal is its focus on infrastructure projects.
Victoria is moving away from burnoff targets to a new strategy for managing bushfire risk.
Do companies really mean it when they talk about being socially responsible? Judging by their mission statements and homepages, it seems increasingly that resources firms do, but many retailers don’t.
Sometimes extraordinary species really do appear to come back from the dead.
Declining numbers mean the continent’s top predator isn’t fulfilling its ecological role.
Achieving the UN’s ambitious new target will require some big changes.
We often think of ecotourism as good for the environment. But it may have some worrying unintended consequences for wild animals.
More land is burned in northern Australia during August and October than any other time of the year, and it’s not just a natural disaster.
Study shows that many of the utility-scale solar power plants in California have been placed near protected and environmentally sensitive lands.
Campaigners against commercial kangaroo harvesting say it’s unsustainable and have convinced California to extend a ban on kangaroo imports. But are Australia’s world-famous roos really at risk?
Should conservationists ‘sell’ the value of nature by focusing on the ecosystem services nature provides people? Surveys show this may be the wrong tack.
People living in their forests must be on board too – and they don’t always subscribe to Western conservation values.
Indonesia could manage without its rhino, unlike African countries which rely on safari dollars.
Conservationists claim the combination of GPS tracker, heart-beat monitor and spy camera will be a game changer.
You can’t simply ‘value’ nature as though it were a commodity able to be bought and sold.
Many ecosystems have changed so radically that it is no longer possible to restore them to what they once were and in other situations it is not appropriate.
The Endangered Species Act may stave off extinction for the Delta smelt in California, but will it help this threatened fish – or any other at-risk species – recover and thrive again?
Genetics need to be considered when relocating lion populations because they a play a role in the animals’ evolutionary line.
Top contributors
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Professor in Conservation Science, School of the Environment, 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 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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Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, Deakin University
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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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Senior Lecturer, Public Sector Management, School of Business, UNSW Sydney
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ARC Future Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor in Ecology, Charles Sturt University
