Ecological restoration must be a priority for the planet
Most of us know what it’s like to find a baffling gap between what appears on a map and what the map is supposed to portray. This can be downright scary when our safety depends on the map’s accuracy....
View ArticlePress Releases: Our Ocean 2016 Commitments (US Department of State)
(Source: US Department of State) Participants in the third Our Ocean conference, held September 15-16 in Washington, D.C., announced over 136 new initiatives on marine conservation and protection...
View ArticleStill hope for wildlife after the 12th Convention on Biodiversity (IFAW -...
(Source: IFAW - International Fund for Animal Welfare) The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is a beast on its own, founded as one of the three UN "Rio Conventions" following the Earth Summit in...
View ArticlePolitics for the planet: why nature and wildlife need their own UN seats...
(Source: UNSW - The University of New South Wales) The world has global authorities for trade and security, but not for threats to the environment. It's time the natural world got its own seat at the...
View ArticleBeyond Gang Green: The Changing Face of Environmentalism
David Brower & Martin Litton, Photo: John Loeffler On May 3, 1969, after hours of bitter debate, the Sierra Club fired David Brower. The organization’s first paid staffer, Brower had transformed...
View ArticleHUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HOLDS INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE...
8 March 2017 The Human Rights Council in its midday meeting held a clustered interactive dialogue with John Knox, the Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, and Hilal Elver, the...
View ArticleUnderstanding animal coexistence with a little dung and a lot of DNA...
(Source: Princeton University) Posted October 26, 2015; 12:00 p.m. by Morgan Kelly, Office of Communications Princeton University researchers deployed a new tool to help solve an old ecological puzzle:...
View ArticlePresident Trump: Irish writers have their say
While we were sleeping, first we voted into office the ones who watch you drown while very articulately expressing concern; then we tried voting for the ones who kind of like to see you drown. – from...
View ArticleEuropean honey bee steals the media spotlight (Charles Sturt University)
(Source: Charles Sturt University) Native insects play an important role in pollinating agricultural crops but it's the European honey bee that often gets the glory according to Charles Sturt...
View ArticleThe Best Quotations (and Key Themes) From the Pope's Environmental Manifesto...
Yesterday I posted a piece about the pope's "encyclical" on the environment released last month. I summarized what I saw as the key themes and takeaways. I also provided the first half of my list of...
View ArticleThe Best Quotes (and Key Themes) from the Pope's Environmental Manifesto...
Yesterday, I posted a piece about the Pope's "encylclical" on the environment, released last month. I summarized what I saw as the key themes and takeaways. I also provided the first half of my list of...
View ArticlePotential careers for a sustainable life (Charles Sturt University)
(Source: Charles Sturt University) A project at Charles Sturt University's (CSU) Institute for Land, Water and Society (ILWS) has turned its attention to over 500 primary school students to show them...
View ArticleCSU ecologists join call for renewed Alpine brumby cull (Charles Sturt...
(Source: Charles Sturt University) Three Charles Sturt University (CSU) ecologists have joined a national group of scientists calling for rapid and humane control of feral horses, or brumbies, in...
View ArticleWhy Environmental Problems Will Stop Tracking with GDP
I hate to say I told you so, and could be too dead to do so, so I'll tell you in advance: One decade soon, environmental problems will stop tracking with GDP. But the reasons? Well, they probably...
View ArticleGreen light for biodiversity at CSU
Specially designated biodiversity zones have been established across Charles Sturt University (CSU) to protect habitat for endangered and threatened flora and fauna species such as the Squirrel Glider,...
View ArticleWhy Environmental Problems Will Stop Tracking with GDP
I hate to say I told you so, and could be too dead to do so, so I'll tell you in advance: One decade soon, environmental problems will stop tracking with GDP. But the reasons? Well, they probably...
View ArticleMike Baird's war on trees is threatening our biodiversity
Over the past year, there's been a war on trees and there's no sign that it will stop. I grew up in Sydney's eastern suburbs and knew the great native fig trees along Alison Road well. Many were more...
View Article'That would be tragic': Worries new land-clearing laws will 'gut' biodiversity
Troy Grant, NSW Nationals leader and Deputy Premier, was more than a tad optimistic when he called for "natural opponents" of the government's new biodiversity conservation bills to use the two-month...
View ArticleMadness, badness and sadness in spades
"Until philosophers rule as kings," wrote Plato, "cities will have no rest from evils, nor will the human race." By "philosophers" Plato didn't mean the glass-bead-game hand-wringers of contemporary...
View ArticleTe Matau a Maui Environmental Restoration (Department of Conservation of New...
(Source: Department of Conservation of New Zealand) A major partnership of local and national agencies will see more than $6 million invested in conservation in Hawke's Bay over the next 5 years. The...
View Article