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Rapid environmental decline is a major threat, yet education is not mobilised to empower children. Fortunately, many initiatives explore how to make students actors of the ecological transition.
An effort to increase such areas can pose a particular threat to island overseas territories.
Tanzania faces the challenge of conserving forests in a developing country with a rapidly expanding population.
Despite a relatively slow start, South Africa can speed up its implementation of the SDGs.
How can there be boom in new species discoveries while others are dying out at unprecedented rates?
Life on the Antarctic seafloor is surprisingly diverse – and half of the species live nowhere else on Earth. Now scientists can accurately map this unique biodiversity.
What drives the emergence and disappearance of species? By modeling the fundamental processes of evolution and ecology on geographical scales, new research spotlights topography and climatic shifts.
A new map shows that more than 25% of all land outside Antarctica is held and managed by Indigenous peoples. This makes these communities vital allies in the global conservation effort.
Why do whale sharks come together at just 20 locations around the globe?
By sequencing the genomes of other species, we can better understand our place in natural history.
London should be one giant pigeon cemetery, but you rarely see the bodies.
Brindabellaspis had eyes on the top of the head, facing upwards, and a skull stretched into a long and broad snout. Although around 400 million years old, it was clearly a specialised fish.
DNA sequencing is making it possible for scientists to identify thousands of species of zooplankton – drifting animals that are key links in ocean food webs.
Conservation fences create a few hundred square kilometres of safety for vulnerable native animals surrounded by 7.6 million lethal square kilometres.
Several giant terrestrial Plathelminth species have invaded France and its overseas territories, threatening biodiversity. Thanks to participatory science, the invasion is finally recognized.
Governments around the world have vowed to halt the loss of global biodiversity by 2020, but without more investment, we’ll miss some of the targets.
Many sacred sites such as temples, and churchyards are havens for biodiversity.
The bearded boar is rarely honoured, yet its role in the forest of this island in the Malay archipelago is as crucial as it is emblematic.
New research shows that children who live in greener neighbourhoods are less likely to develop asthma, and that the more diverse the plant life is, the more they are protected.
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Professor in Sustainability and Urban Planning, Leader, Interdisciplinary Conservation Science Research Group (ICON Science), RMIT University
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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, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer, Public Sector Management, School of Business, UNSW Sydney
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Professor in Conservation Science, School of Ecosystem and Forest Science, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University
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Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University
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Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
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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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Ecologist and Researcher, Flinders University
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Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland
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Curator, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation Biology, Australian Museum, UNSW Sydney
