World overshoot day

August 22, 2013 Liveable Futures / Threats and extinction

August 20th was World Overshoot Day – the estimated day on which the world’s population had used up the planet’s

Olinguito discovered in Andes rainforest

August 16, 2013 Discovering Biodiversity

What is an oliguito, I hear you say? Well, it’s a close relative of the olingo. What’s an olingo? It’s

Time for some shark love

August 6, 2013 Threats and extinction

This week is shark week, so given that they’ve been around for 420 million years, I thought it time to

Tiger, tiger, burning bright*

July 30, 2013 Threats and extinction

Since yesterday’s post was a bit of a depressing one (and there’s the understatement of the year), today’s will be

Science communication needs a touch of the Renaissance

July 25, 2013 Liveable Futures / Valuing biodiversity

Its official: science fact is losing out to a range of fictions in the public arena. A recent survey of

Wild and wilder

July 18, 2013 Managing Biodiversity

I wrote about one approach to revegetating recently – the suggestion was to clone some of the extremely old trees

Australia – land of the hot pink slug

July 15, 2013 Discovering Biodiversity

Meet Triboniophorus aff. graeffei, a hot pink slug that lives on Mount Kaputar in New South Wales in Australia. It’s

Sustainable food – what you can do

July 12, 2013 Liveable Futures / Managing Biodiversity

If you’re interested in getting food that’s sustainably grown, you should have a look at this site. The Stewardship Index

Super trees and regeneration: will it work?

July 4, 2013 Managing Biodiversity

Terry Pratchett translates “Ook” in orang-utan in his book Men At Arms to mean: “It may be just vital biomass

A world without borders – why biodiversity matters

July 1, 2013 Liveable Futures / Managing Biodiversity

The news is still full of the fires in Indonesia and the resulting smog in Singapore and Malaysia – unfortunately