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Countries have voted to limit the international shark trade, but this fails to account for the diversity in fishing contexts around the world.
Getting that detail right could mean the difference between a species surviving, or disappearing forever.
As we set conservation goals for the next decade, we need to evaluate what worked and what didn’t in our efforts to meet the 2020 biodiversity conservation targets.
Negotiators hope to put humanity on a path to harmonious coexistence with nature by 2050.
The environmental awards gave cash to climate scientists, conservationists and inventors.
Pastoral communities should be included in conservation initiatives – but the ecology of pastoral lands has long been misunderstood.
Governments, scientists and conservation groups are working to protect 30% of Earth’s land and water for nature by 2030. Two scientists explain why scale matters for reaching that goal.
Millions of dollars have gone into California’s forest carbon offset program – with little new carbon storage to show for it, a new study suggests.
A study offers evidence that marine biology’s biggest stage is broken, and suggests ways to fix it.
Seeing an animal in distress after disaster makes us want to help. But feeding them doesn’t always make the situation better.
Conservation that places less emphasis on who may or may not use a piece of land could result in better outcomes for people and wildlife.
Our new, world-first research provides strong evidence of a significant increase in reef manta rays in protected areas of Raja Ampat over a decade.
Inbreeding usually leads to an accumulation of genetic defects, but evolution on a small archipelago may have helped the severely inbred Chatham Island black robin to avoid this fate.
New research shows rewilding with invertebrates – insects, worms, spiders and the like – can go a long way in bringing our degraded landscapes back to life.
It’s important that citizen science projects engage volunteers from across society, including young people. A new Australian initiative is doing just that.
Japan was one of the world’s largest ivory markets – research explains why the country is no longer a key destination for the product.
About a third of Victoria’s land-based plants, animals and ecological communities face extinction. We look at what the political parties have promised ahead of the state election.
The embryo is frozen in liquid nitrogen until a suitable female donkey is found to grow it into a baby.
The report results could help explain honeybee colony deaths.
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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, The 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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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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Professor in Ecology, Charles Sturt University
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ARC Future Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Honorary Research Fellow, University of Sydney
