CSU’s ‘Tall Poppy’ scientist one to look up to (Charles Sturt University)
(Source: Charles Sturt University) Finding solutions to the modern extinction crisis is a tall order but it's the motivation driving award-winning Charles Sturt University (CSU) scientist, Dr Dale...
View ArticleNSW government promises biodiversity win from land clearing laws
NSW "is not Queensland" when it comes to a controversial overhaul of land clearing laws, the state government has insisted, while promising to reverse decades of biodiversity decline. Announcing laws...
View Article'Bombshell': Just one-sixth of rural land-clearing tracked in NSW, ANU's...
Farmers are clearing land six times faster than detected by the NSW government, and most offsets used to compensate for vegetation destruction merely preserve existing conservation areas, according to...
View ArticleNew era in land management and conservation [PDF] (NSW Department of Primary...
(Source: NSW Department of Primary Industries) New era in land management and conservation Troy Grant Deputy Premier Mark Speakman Minister for the Environment Niall Blair Minister for Primary...
View ArticlePlanned laws undermine native vegetation and biodiversity (University of...
(Source: University of Western Sydney) The following opinion piece, by Dr Neil Perry, was first published in The Conversation (opens in new window) website. While everyone's eyes were turned to the...
View ArticleNew era in land management and conservation (NSW Office of Environment and...
(Source: NSW Office of Environment and Heritage) bac17f5b-929e-4c30-b207-79f78e2b00fd.pdf Troy Grant Deputy Premier Mark Speakman Minister for the Environment Niall Blair Minister for Primary...
View ArticleWe May Resurrect The Mammoth Sooner Than You Think
Of all the varied and incredible possibilities presented by the controversial new gene-editing technique known as CRISPR-Cas9, perhaps the most intriguing are efforts to bring animals back from...
View ArticleImpacts of the 2016 U.S. Election on Environmental Law, Policy, and...
(Source: Beveridge & Diamond PC) Impacts of the 2016 U.S. Election on Environmental Law, Policy, and Enforcement Edited by David Friedland November 16, 2016 for a PDF of this alert. The 2016...
View Article2017 Global Agenda for Economic Freedom (The Heritage Foundation)
(Source: The Heritage Foundation) August 30, 2016 | Special Report on Economic Freedom 2017 Global Agenda for Economic Freedom By James M. Roberts, William T. Wilson, Ph.D., Diane Katz, Anthony B. Kim,...
View ArticleThe ninth extinction (Greenpeace International)
(Source: Greenpeace International) Earth's living community is now suffering the most severe biodiversity crisis in 65 million years, since a meteorite struck near modern Chicxulub, Mexico, injecting...
View ArticleCaught in the net of life and time: what modern hunting means to me
Huge dark eyes staring, the young kangaroo convulses next to me on the ground. My son restrains the dog that attacked it, my daughter sobs. The western sun slants through eucalypts, magpies carol in...
View ArticleUSGS Science at Ecological Society of America's Conference (USGS - US...
(Source: USGS - US Geological Survey) USGS Science at Ecological Society of America's Conference From Climate Change to Wind Energy, Wildfire and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Released: 8/10/2015 10:00:00...
View ArticleNASA Releases Detailed Global Climate Change Projections (NASA - The National...
(Source: NASA - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration) The new NASA global data set combines historical measurements with data from climate simulations using the best available computer...
View ArticlePaddock trees - restoring the missing link (NSW Local Land Services)
(Source: NSW Local Land Services) 20 October 2016 Over the past two years, landholders, Landcare, researchers and government have worked together on a unique project to protect and restore paddock...
View ArticleEcological 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 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 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 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 ArticleKick off Sunshine Week with a Celebration of FOIA Professionals (US...
(Source: US Department of Justice) Wednesday, February 11, 2015 "Did you ever get to see an elephant in the wild before they became extinct?" By John Cruden, Catherine Novelli and Dan Ashe "Did you...
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