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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.
Blink and you’ll miss it. The kowari is a charismatic marsupial carnivore that needs our help.
The SUPERB project, part of the EU’s Horizon programme, aims to restore thousands of hectares of forest landscape across Europe.
Platypuses are drowning in Australian waterways, tangled in fishing line and trapped in closed nets meant for freshwater crayfish or yabbies. But we can fix this.
Translocation may have been the key to survival for the eastern barred bandicoot but it might not be the golden ticket for every species.
A group of determined women founded the RSPB, but they had great support behind the scenes by a little-known Argentinean naturalist.
Effective use of genomic identification could revolutionize the control of the illegal timber trade.
Deeper ocean habitats (30-150 metres) are a key feeding ground for critically endangered hawksbill turtles.
A community of macaques in Japan has a high rate of disabled individuals who survive with behavioural flexibility and maternal care. Globally, primate disabilities are often related to human causes.
Recent research shows how reducing overfishing is both an ecological imperative and a critical means to addressing climate change.
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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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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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Honorary Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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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 Terrestrial Ecology, Deakin University
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ARC Future Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor in Ecology, Charles Sturt University
