All the evidence – colonial accounts and records, First Peoples’ testimony and scientific data – points to the existence of widespread tall, dense forests 250 years ago.
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The Himalayas are a beautiful and fragile ecosystem that both humans and non-humans have relied upon for millennia. Protecting them will require careful conservation efforts.
Overall, coastal habitat restoration greatly increases animal numbers and diversity. But not all projects deliver the goods and we need to find out why.
We think of laughing kookaburras as common in Australia and their call certainly lets us know when they’re about. But several factors are driving down their numbers.
The scarcity of bat fossils is more than a palaeontological puzzle: it has implications for bat conservation strategies today.
As climate change threatens their food supply, migratory birds may find help in an unlikely place.
Whether people are hunters can have a big effect.
Young sharks are gathering at a popular beach. Here’s why we should skip our fear response and go for wonder – and protection
A new treaty could help protect cetaceans in the Pacific, but more needs to be done internationally.
There are 401 indigenous terrestrial reptiles in South Africa.
Intense heat and no rain in southwest Western Australia are causing widespread tree and shrub die-offs.
What harm can a road do? Plenty. Once built, illegal roads let loggers, miners, poachers and landgrabbers into the jungle, and the felling begins.
John Alec Baker’s 1967 novel, The Peregrine, recounts the story of a bird over ten winters, but his archive is the story of a very private man.
The strategy aims to conserve biodiversity while also contributing to the creation of jobs and economic growth.
Even with the best intentions, policies from different government departments can clash.
Australia committed to restore 30% of degraded ecosystems by 2030 when we signed the global biodiversity framework. But what does that really mean? It’s open to interpretation. So let’s be ambitious.
Many measures commonly thought to reduce the toll of animals injured and killed on our roads aren’t effective. But there is evidence to support other solutions.
We’ve known about dryland salinity for a century. But while we’ve made progress, the problem hasn’t yet been solved.
For decades, conservationists have tried to repopulate dead reefs with corals reared elsewhere.
Conditions deteriorated in 2023 but were stlil relatively good for ecosystems and agriculture. Unfortunately, the alarming decline of threatened species continued.
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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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Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook 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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Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University
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Lecturer in the School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University
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Professor in Conservation Science, School of Ecosystem and Forest Science, The University of Melbourne
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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 Terrestrial Ecology, Deakin University
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Professor in Ecology, Charles Sturt University
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ARC Future Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
