Tips for publishing in academic journals 2.0
A few weeks ago I attended the 28th International Congress for Conservation Biology in Cartagena (Colombia). ICCB has been, as always, a...
Saving the Green in Our Suburbs
The Wilderness Society (TWS) and Environmental Defenders Office held an event on the 21st June, 2017, to discuss land clearing in urban...
Field work in Kiribati
In April and May I spent two months in Kiribati undertaking field work toward my PhD. Kiribati is an island nation made up of 32 atolls...
Staring at the abyss
Having already lost much of its habitat in the last 30 years, the Southern Black-throated Finch will plummet towards extinction if...
Trade‐offs in triple‐bottom‐line outcomes when recovering fisheries
Almost all environmental management comes at an economic cost that may not be borne equitably by all stakeholders. Here, we investigate...
Temporally inter-comparable maps of terrestrial wilderness and the Last of the Wild
Wilderness areas, defined as areas free of industrial scale activities and other human pressures which result in significant biophysical...
Patterns of forest loss in one of Africa’s last remaining wilderness areas: Niassa National Reserve
Niassa National Reserve (NNR) supports Mozambique’s largest populations of endangered fauna and sustains the livelihoods of> 40,000...
Ecology: a global plan for nature conservation
Climate change and biodiversity loss are the two greatest environmental challenges of our time. The 2015 Paris climate agreement states...
The impact of urbanization and climate change on urban temperatures: a systematic review
Cities have elevated temperatures compared to rural areas, a phenomenon known as the “urban heat island”. Higher temperatures increase...
Defending the scientific integrity of conservation‐policy processes
Government agencies faced with politically controversial decisions often discount or ignore scientific information, whether from agency...