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• 5000 piggies, 500 piggies, 100 piggies, … and there there was none (04/12/2024)
• Indigenous fire management began more than 11,000 years ago (12/03/2024)
• New ecosystems, unprecedented climates: more Australian species than ever are struggling to survive (21/02/2024)
• People once lived in a vast region in north-western Australia – and it had an inland sea (21/12/2023)
• Assessing the massive costs of biological invasions to Australia and the world (06/09/2023)
• Open Letter: Public policy in South Australia regarding dingoes (28/08/2023)
• Young red kangaroos grow up quickly where hungry dingoes lurk (02/06/2023)
• Better codes of practice for control of feral animals (24/02/2023)
• Remapping the superhighways travelled by the first Australians reveals a 10,000-year journey through the continent (03/02/2023)
• Interrupted flows in the Murray River endanger frogs (17/02/2023)
• Should we bring back the thylacine? We asked 5 experts (17/08/2022)
• A few insights into the inner workings of the Australian Research Council (13/05/2022)
• Can we resurrect the thylacine? Maybe, but it won’t help the global extinction crisis (09/03/2022)
• The integrity battlefield: where science meets policy (04/03/2022)
• Wondering if you should apply for a DECRA? (07/02/2022)
• Open Letter from Members of the Australian Research Council College of Experts (25/01/2022)
• Extinct megafauna prone to ancient hunger games (14/12/2021)
• And this little piggy went extinct (24/11/2021)
• Video explainer — nasty alien species in Australia (15/08/2021)
• Pest plants and animals cost Australia around $25 billion a year — and it will get worse (02/08/2021)
• Killing (feral) cats quickly (and efficiently) (20/05/2021)
• The biggest and slowest don’t always bite it first (13/04/2021)
• How to reduce the probability of being killed by a shark (31/03/2021)
• Australia: the world’s unsustainable ‘mine’ (16/09/2020)
• A brief history of environmentalism in Australia since European invasion (29/06/2020)
• Successful movers responding to climate change (16/06/2020)
• South Australia is still killing dingoes (14/04/2020)
• Did people or climate kill off the megafauna? Actually, it was both (10/12/2019)
• Climate change and humans together pushed Australia’s biggest beasts to extinction (25/11/2019)
• Logbook of Australia’s ancient megafauna (20/11/2019)
• Respecting Aboriginal culture through language (16/10/2019)
• Victoria, please don’t aerial-bait dingoes (10/10/2019)
• First Australians arrived in large groups using complex technologies (18/06/2019)
• Koala extinctions past, present, and future (12/06/2019)
• How to improve (South Australia’s) biodiversity prospects (09/04/2019)
• How to fix a broken river (08/04/2019)
• The dingo is a true-blue, native Australian species (07/03/2019)
• We need a Revegetation Council (14/01/2019)
• Better Prospects for the Future of South Australia’s Biodiversity (21/11/2018)
• South Australia’s broken biodiversity legislation (24/09/2108)
• Minister, why is the dingo no longer ‘fauna’? (07/09/2018)
• South Australia doesn’t value its environment (05/09/2018)
• Biodiversity is everyone’s responsibility (13/07/2018)
• Greater death rates for invasive rabbits from interacting diseases (07/06/2018)
• When devils and thylacines went extinct (17/01/2018)
• Protecting one of the world’s marine wonders (17/06/2017)
• Not all wetlands are created equal (13/02/2017)
• More things stay the same, more we retrogress (20/07/2016)
• George Hubert Wilkins – Australia’s first whitefella conservationist? (06/07/2016)
• What immigration means for Australia’s climate-change policies (12/06/2016)
• Australia pisses away the little water it has (09/05/2016)
• Most-bestest Environment Minister in the world, ever (04/04/2016)
• Bad science (10/02/2016)
• No evidence climate change is to blame for Australian megafauna extinctions (29/01/2016)
• Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie (19/10/2015)
• Australia’s motto (02/03/2015)
• Dawn of life (18/05/2015)
• How things have (not) changed (13/04/2015)
• Australians: out-of-touch, urban squanderers (23/03/2015)
• Australia’s perfect storm of negligence (17/03/2015)
• The environmental Abbott-oir survives another day … (09/02/2015)
• What’s in a name? The dingo’s sorry saga (30/01/2015)
• Using ecological theory to make more money (01/12/2014)
• It’s not all about cats (20/10/2014)
• Australia should have a more vibrant ecological culture (13/10/2014)
• We treat our wildlife like vermin ( 24/09/2014)
• Evidence-based conservation advocacy can work (15/09/2014)
• Western Australia’s moronic shark cull (04/07/2014)
• New Threatened Species Commissioner lacks teeth (02/07/2014)
• School finishers and undergraduates ill-prepared for research careers (22/05/2014)
• Australian League of Environmental Organisations (06/05/2014)
• Putting the ‘science’ in citizen science (30/04/2014)
• Look at the whale (while we wipe out everything else) (24/04/2014)
• South Australia’s tattered environmental remains (16/04/2014)
• The environmental Abbott-oir (09/04/2014)
• The lengths Abbott will go to destroy environmentalism (07/04/2014)
• Abbott’s ‘No more parks’ vow a bad move (06/03/2014)
• Australia’s (latest) war on the environment (03/03/2014)
• More species = more resilience (08/01/2014)
• Biowealth: all creatures great and small (12/04/2013)
• King for a day (29/11/2013)
• Cleaning up the rubbish: Australian megafauna extinctions (15/11/2013)
• MP’s ignorance puts national parks in peril (30/08/2013)
• Don’t blame it on the dingo (21/08/2013)
• Relaxed laws imperil Australian wildlife (28/06/2013)
• Australia’s national parks aren’t ‘national’ at all (14/06/2013)
• Our national parks must be more than playgrounds or paddocks (24/05/2013)
• Let the planting begin (03/04/2013)
• Brave new green world (12/03/2013)
• Hot topics in ecology (05/03/2013)
• No need for disease (07/01/2013)
• Restoring doomed fish (24/08/2012)
• Experiments in carbon-biodiversity trade-offs (19/07/2012)
• Empty seas coming to a shore near you (12/07/2012)
• Costs and benefits of a carbon economy for conservation (12/06/2012)
• It couldn’t have been us! (29/05/2012)
• Ghosts of bottlenecks past (25/05/2012)
• Can Australia afford the dingo fence (18/05/2012)
• To corridor or not to corridor: size is the question (24/04/2012)
• Eat a feral a week (22/03/2012)
• Surgical conservation: gain requires some pain (21/12/2011)
• Where the sick buffalo roam (28/10/2011)
• Follow the TREND (24/10/2011)
• Little left to lose: deforestation history of Australia (06/10/2011)
• Gagging scientists about marine parks (14/08/2011)
• More than leftovers: getting marine parks right in Australia (07/08/2011)
• Australian ecologists support carbon tax (18/07/2011)
• The few, the loud and the factually challenged (18/06/2011)
• Know thy threat (09/06/2011)
• Demise of the Australian ERA journal rankings (03/06/2011)
• Who’s your carbon daddy? (20/04/2011)
• Crocodiles, spiders and leeches (11/04/2011)
• Government pulls the plug on Asian honeybee eradication (03/03/2011)
• Disaster coming to a coastline near you (24/02/2011)
• What the hell is a banteng? (21/02/2011)
• Deforestation partly to blame for Queensland floods (17/01/2011)
• Put the bite back into biodiversity conservation (02/07/2010)
• Faraway fettered fish fluctuate frequently (27/06/2010)
• Biodiversity SNAFU in Australia’s Jewel (16/06/2010)
• Computer-assisted killing (12/01/2009)
• How to restore a tropical rain forest (06/11/2009)
• Protecting Australian wilderness (01/10/2009)
• Coming to grips with the buffalo problem (07/09/2009)
• Can we solve Australia’s mammal extinction crisis? (03/09/2009)
• Burning away ecological ignorance (24/08/2009)
• Continued loss of Australian mammals (21/08/2009)
• Australia’s biodiversity shame (31/07/2009)
• Underwater deforestation (26/05/2009)
• Eastern Seaboard Climate Change Initiative (30/04/2009)
• Fishing for conservation in the River Murray (03/04/2009)
• Protein mining northern Australia’s seas (31/03/2009)
• Woodland Recovery Initiative (12/03/2009)
• Getting serious about understanding biodiversity (03/03/2009)
• Adelaide’s shame (12/02/2009)
• Marine conservation in SA (26/01/2009)
• Man bites shark (07/01/2009)
• The Environment Institute (09/12/2008)
• Biodiversity decline in South Australia (30/11/2008)
• Eating kangaroos (21/11/2008)
• Water neutrality (05/11/2008)
• Recreational fishing (29/08/2008)
• Australian biosequestration (28/08/2008)
• The Irwin factor (16/08/2008)
• Eat more kangaroos and fewer cattle & sheep (07/08/2008)
• Optimal conservation investment in Queensland (17/07/2008)
• Dingoes and feral predators (03/07/2008)