This morning I lay witness to perhaps 20% of the entire Swift Parrot population.

Thrill and despair in the same scene. To think they could be extinct within a decade.

We need to do more. Their value is greater than that of harvested timber.

Well imagine if we actually listened to the experts ... who predicted this was going to happen ...
When will we start taking environmental protection seriously, and start avoiding harm?

abc.net.au/news/2024-05-0…

This is a heartbreaking day for so many across the country who care for nature, and especially for the local people and Traditional Owners who have fought so hard to protect this amazing place, and its wildlife much of which will now die. So much for ‘nature positive’.

Our threatened reptile work made the media!
wildlifeconservationlab.com/post/saving-qu…

Saving Queensland's earless dragons (uq.edu.au)

Last week Tanya Plibersek referred to an internal audit of environmental offset compliance when announcing the establishment of a national EPA minister.dcceew.gov.au/plibersek/tran…
The audit apparently found that 1 in 7 developments could be in breach of their #offset conditions 🧵

It was so nice to finally present my honours research at #AusBatSoc2024 after workshopping the idea at the 2022 conference!

#BREAKING : Toondah Harbour has been saved! 🎉

We are thrilled to tell you that Toondah Harbour has finally been saved after Walker Corp withdrew their real-estate proposal today.

This is a huge win for the environment and the birds that call Toondah home!

The Call for Abstracts for ESA 2024 is now open!

ESA 2024 is shaping up to be HUGE with over 40 Symposia to choose from. Abstract submissions are open for any of these symposia and the Open Forum.

esa2024.org.au

Submissions close Friday 12 July.

📷️: Kristian Bell

Remote cameras and conservation dogs will be deployed as part of a UQ research project aiming to conserve four threatened Queensland reptile species. 🐶🦎

More: tinyurl.com/s7m9m7se
UQ News April Reside 🦇
📸Detection For Good

UK environmental policy folks, worth paying attention to this huge carbon offset scandal in Australia that's been uncovered over the last few years by Megan Evans & team. It's probs the worst national case study I know of garbage offsets being used to justify fossil fuel expansion

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has today refused to declare that Lee Point is a significant Aboriginal area.

Alarming aerial images have been publicly released by Airborne Logic showing the destruction caused by feral horses in Kosciuszko NP.
Almost everywhere you look there are webs of horse tracks scarring what is meant to be a pristine landscape.
We've pulled them together in a🧵👇

Human pandemic prevention should start with conserving natural habitat for bats and other wild animals according to new research in Nature Communications .

Dr Alison Peel Griffith University : “We showed that Hendra virus is most likely to pass from bats to horses in places where habitat destruction…

There’s an enormous price to pay if carbon credit projects don’t actually offset the emissions of the companies that buy them, Megan Evans from UNSW Canberra warns.

“It makes climate change worse,” she said.

Renew Economy on our latest research

reneweconomy.com.au/it-makes-clima…

Evidence for impact of policies is critical if we’re going to make progress in climate change mitigation

🚨JOB ALERT!🚨

We are advertising three new lectureships on our £8.3 million E3 'Sharing Space for Nature' initiative.

2 Lecturers in Conservation Science - jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?i…

1 Lecturer in Marine Conservation - jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?i…

Deadline to apply is 6th May

'Prestigious journals make it hard for scientists who don’t speak English to get published. And we all lose out.' Excellent The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand piece by Henry Arenas-Castro on our recent #languagebarriers publication (doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…).
theconversation.com/prestigious-jo…

Good news about a threatened species!

Grey-headed flying-fox population is stable – 10 years of monitoring reveals this threatened species is doing well theconversation.com/grey-headed-fl…

A WIN!

Five years after my bill to remove the Minister’s veto power over ARC grants, parliament has finally agreed with us - independent peer review and #research expertise, not political whims, should determine research funding.

🧵 #ARC #HigherEd

Come work with us! Funded PhD projects from species- to ecosystem-level conservation
Ecological Applications Ecological Society of Australia AusHerpetology BirdLife Australia BirdLife International