Taxonomy in the clouds
Another post (see previous here, here and here) by my aspiring science-communicator PhD student, Salvador Herrando-Pérez. — Taxonomy uses rigorous rules of nomenclature to classify living beings, so...
View ArticleCan Australia afford the dingo fence?
I wrote this last night with Euan Ritchie of Deakin University in response to some pretty shoddy journalism that misrepresented my comments (and Euan’s work). Our article appeared first in The...
View ArticleDon’t blame it on the dingo
Our postdoc, Tom Prowse, has just had one of the slickest set of reviews I’ve ever seen, followed by a quick acceptance of what I think is a pretty sexy paper. Earlier this year his paper in Journal of...
View ArticleScience immortalised in cartoon Version 2.0
I’m in the middle of participating in a short-course on science communication based at the University of Helsinki‘s Lammi Biological Station (about 1.5 hours north of Helsinki by car). Organised by two...
View ArticleWe treat our wildlife like vermin
I’ve pointed out in several posts on ConservationBytes.com just how badly Australia is doing in the environmental stakes, with massive deforestation continuing since colonial times, feral predators and...
View ArticleWhat’s in a name? The dingo’s sorry saga
The more I delve into the science of predator management, the more I realise that the science itself takes a distant back seat to the politics. It would be naïve to think that the management of dingoes...
View ArticleMinister, why is the dingo no longer ‘fauna’?
So, a few of us have just submitted a letter contesting the Western Australia Government’s recent decision to delist dingoes as ‘fauna’ (I know — what the hell else could they be?). The letter was...
View ArticleThe dingo is a true-blue, native Australian species
(reproduced from The Conversation) Of all Australia’s wildlife, one stands out as having an identity crisis: the dingo. But our recent article in the journal Zootaxa argues that dingoes should be...
View Article“Overabundant” wildlife usually isn’t
Late last year (10 December) I was invited to front up to the ‘Overabundant and Pest Species Inquiry’ at the South Australian Parliament to give evidence regarding so-called ‘overabundant’ and ‘pest’...
View ArticleVictoria, please don’t aerial-bait dingoes
Here’s a submission to Victoria’s proposed renewal of special permission from the Commonwealth to poison dingoes: 08 October 2019 Honourable Lily D’Ambrosio MP Minister for Energy, Environment and...
View ArticleFeral predators –‘super’ cats, foxes and dingoes
Here’s one to get us going. A recent news item on ABC News discusses the prospect of importing so-called ‘super cats’ (‘savannah cats’ = domestic cat x African serval) into Australia. Although most of...
View ArticleCan we solve Australia’s mammal extinction crisis?
This ‘In Depth‘ Science Opinion piece from the ABC couldn’t have come at a better time. Written by Ian Gordon of the CSIRO, this opinion piece was written off the back of the special session on...
View ArticleComputer-assisted killing for conservation
Many non-Australians might not know it, but Australia is overrun with feral vertebrates (not to mention weeds and invertebrates). We have millions of pigs, dogs, camels, goats, buffalo, deer, rabbits,...
View ArticlePut the bite back into biodiversity conservation
Today’s guest post is by Dr. Euan Ritchie, formerly of James Cook University, but who is now firmly entrenched at Deakin University in Victoria as a new Lecturer in ecology. Euan’s exciting research...
View ArticleStudent opportunities with Australian Wildlife Conservancy
A colleague of mine, Dr. Matt Hayward of the Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC), asked me to circulate some Honours, MSc and PhD student project opportunities. I thought this would be best done by...
View ArticleSouth Australia is still killing dingoes
As we did for Victoria, here’s our submission to South Australia’s proposed changes to its ‘wild dog’ and dingo policy (organised again by the relentless and venerable Dr Kylie Cairns): 14 April 2020...
View ArticlePest plants and animals cost Australia around $25 billion a year — and it...
Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University and Andrew Hoskins, CSIRO This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons licence. Read the original article. Shamefully, Australia...
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