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Challenging the traditional conference model
An interesting take on conference culture by Diogo Veríssimo (mastermind behind I Fucking Love Biodiversity). — Just a few weeks back, more than 2000 conservationists got together in Montpellier,...
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Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss XXXII
Six more biodiversity cartoons — this time, from France. They’re in French to pay hommage to my hosts (and acknowledge their fanaticism for les bandes dessinées), but don’t worry, I’ve provided full...
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What makes all that biodiversity possible?
Predators. You can either stop reading now because that’s the answer to the question, or you can continue and find out a little more detail. I’ve just had an extremely pleasant experience reading John...
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Only thing worse than being labelled ‘deadly’, is not being called anything...
I had an interesting exchange on Twitter today that deserves some discussion, not because the brief internet argument that ensued offers some insightful wisdom (internet debates rarely do anything more...
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Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss XXXIII
Six more biodiversity cartoons to hold you over until I get back from Germany next week (see full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here). — Filed under: Australia,...
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Influential conservation papers of 2015
As I did last year and the year before, here’s another arbitrary, retrospective list of the top 20 influential conservation papers of 2015 as assessed via F1000 Prime. — Changing habitat areas and...
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Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss XXXIV
Another six biodiversity cartoons for you this week. You might have asked yourself ‘Why six?’ — the number 6 is, of course, the smallest perfect number (i.e., the sum of its aliquot divisors is equal...
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It’s not always best to be the big fish
Loosely following the theme of last week’s post, it’s now fairly well established that humans tend to pick on the big species first. From fewer big trees, declines of big carnivores, elephant &...
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Biowealth
While I’ve blogged about this before in general terms (here and here), I thought it wise to reproduce the (open-access) chapter of the same name published in late 2013 in the unfortunately rather...
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Disadvantages of marine protected areas
Filed under: conservation, conservation biology, marine, marine protected area, MPA, protected area, reserve Tagged: biodiversity, environment, Fish, fisheries, marine reserves
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Environmental Arsehats
I’m starting a new series on ConservationBytes.com — one that exposes the worst environmental offenders on the planet. I’ve taken the idea from an independent media organisation based in Australia —...
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Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss XXXV
Another six biodiversity cartoons for you this week (see here for why I provide six each time). See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. — Filed under:...
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Higher biodiversity imparts greater disease resistance
Is biodiversity good for us? In many ways, this is a stupid question because at some point, losing species that we use directly will obviously impact us negatively — think of food crops, pollination...
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Most-Bestest Environment Minister in the World, Ever
Australia has an appalling environmental record — hell, I have even written an entire book on our sorry state of environmental affairs. Of course, environmental damage is a slow accumulation of bad...
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Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss XXXVI
Another six biodiversity cartoons because it’s shaping up to be a crazy week. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. — Filed under: deforestation, development,...
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Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss XXXVII
Another six biodiversity cartoons because I have a full-on month of lecturing. I’ll call this one the ‘over-population’ issue. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia...
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Keeping India’s forests
I’ve just returned from a short trip to the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, Karnataka, one of India’s elite biological research institutes. I was invited to give a series...
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Rich and stable communities most vulnerable to change
I’ve just read an interesting new study that was sent to me by the lead author, Giovanni Strona. Published the other day in Nature Communications, Strona & Lafferty’s article entitled Environmental...
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Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss XXXVIII
Another six biodiversity cartoons for your midday chuckle & groan. There’s even one in there that takes the mickey out of some of my own research (see if you can figure out which one). See full...
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Inexorable rise of human population pressures in Africa
I’ve been a bit mad preparing for an upcoming conference, so I haven’t had a lot of time lately to blog about interesting developments in the conservation world. However, it struck me today that my...
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