Recent increases in human pressure and forest loss threaten many Natural World Heritage Sites
Natural World Heritage Sites (NWHS), via their formal designation through the United Nations, are globally recognized as containing some...
To conserve or exploit: the choice is ours
The environmental footprint of humanity is truly massive, covering some 80 percent of Earth. Indeed, over our planet’s 4.5 billion year...
Land clearing accelerating across Queensland
Land clearing is accelerating across eastern Australia, despite our new research providing a clear warning of its impacts on the Great...
Paper showing damage to World Heritage wins prestigious international award
Brisbane, Thursday 25 May – Study revealing the extent of damaging activities and forest loss in Natural World Heritage Sites, led by...
A wake-up call for Australians?
The Great Barrier Reef was recently considered for a World Heritage 'in danger' listing, but was spared in 2015 by the development of the...
Special Issue: Achieving the targets of global biodiversity conventions
The journal Conservation Letters has just released a Special Issue on "Achieving the targets of global biodiversity conventions". This is...
What an ancient water flea could tell us about the future of humanity
More than a dozen authors from different universities and nongovernmental organizations around the world have concluded, based on an...
Spatial dynamics of coastal forest bird assemblages: the influence of landscape context, forest type
Understanding how ecosystems link, connect and function is important for knowing how to conserve them. PhD student Christina Buelow and...
Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint and implications for biodiversity
Venter, O., Sanderson, E.W., Magrach, A., Allan, J.R., Beher, J., Jones, K.R., Possingham, H.P., Wood, P., Fekete, B.M., Levy, M.A. and...
Towards reassessing data-deficient species
Bland, L.M., Bielby, J., Kearney, S., Orme, C.D.L., Watson, J.E.M. and B. Collen (2016). Towards reassessing data-deficient species....