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Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis could escalate into a complex disaster emergency with dire environmental consequences.
Urban coyotes prey on rodents and spread plant seeds. It’s OK to observe them from a distance, but then you should chase them off.
You can tell how close penguins are to each other by how similar their voices are.
Double-lane freeways can act as lethal walls to wildlife. We found underpasses work well to give animals safe crossing.
Infectious diseases originating in wild animals are high and may be increasing. This is a sign that ecosystem degradation is undermining the planet’s capacity to sustain human wellbeing.
Just over 100 years ago, Maasai in Kenya were moved into reserves, where they could be more easily taxed and controlled, to make way for white settlement.
Many wildlife species face an uncertain future due to recurring, severe drought.
If you’re hot, so are your four-legged neighbours.
Flame retardants are added to consumer products — and end up in the environment and harming aquatic wildlife.
Caracals that hunt closer to urban areas where human population density is higher, have higher levels of chemicals in their systems.
Heatwaves can leave you in a sticky situation.
Many people can’t get by without the buzz from their daily coffee habit.
Tropical forest covers 12% of the planet’s land surface yet hosts around two thirds of all terrestrial species. Amazonia, which spans the vast Amazon River basin and the Guiana Shield in South America…
Species will endure intolerable conditions long after the global average temperature stabilises.
An Africa-based conservation expert explains why trophy hunting has not delivered for wildlife in most parts of Africa, and that local communities benefit next to nothing from its continued practice
Two new studies reveal fascinating new information about why some animals are able to live so long. Let me introduce you to five animals who lived over a century, and their remarkable lives.
The common eider nests in colonies on islands of the St. Lawrence estuary. The down that the female duck takes to fill her nest has exceptional insulating properties.
A deadly neurological infection, chronic wasting disease, has been detected in deer, elk and moose in 30 states and four Canadian provinces. Human risk is low, but hunters need to take precautions.
The recent goring of a tourist who approached within 10 feet of a bison in Yellowstone National Park is a reminder that wild animals can be dangerous and people should keep safe distances.
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Associate Professor in Ecology, Charles Sturt University
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Professor (conservation biology), Charles Darwin University
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Senior Research Associate, Institute for the Future of Knowledge, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Principal Research Scientist, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland
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Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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ARC DECRA Fellow, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Research Fellow, University of New England
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Research Fellow in Conservation Marketing, University of Oxford
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Professor in Conservation Science, School of Ecosystem and Forest Science, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Ecology, University of New England
