The Irwin Factor in Conservation Leadership
© Channel 10 Australia In 2007 we were compelled to comment on an essential ingredient in the challenge to convince people that conserving biodiversity is in their best interest – inspirational and...
View ArticleCelebrities actually doing something positive for conservation?
When I first saw this on the BBC I thought to myself, “Well, just another toothless celebrity ego-stroke to make rich people feel better about the environmental mess we’re in” (well, I am a cynic by...
View ArticleThe Joke’s On Us
© decostudio.pl Here’s an idea to garner some appreciation for the dire straits in which humanity finds itself mounting from the global biodiversity crisis. More importantly, I hope that...
View ArticleCrocodiles, spiders and leeches
I just wrote a fun little piece for a new section in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment that they’re calling Trails and Tribulations. The basic idea is that the author recounts a...
View ArticleHumans suddenly become intelligent
Some described it as the “eco-topia”; some believed they had died in the night and awoken in a different universe. Some just stood there gaping stupidly. Yet the events of 01 April 2012 are real*....
View ArticleI fucking love biodiversity
© G. Gallice A corker of an idea, and post, from Diogo Veríssimo. – I don’t like biodiversity. I like beef lasagna, I like the British museum and I like everything Jules Verne ever wrote. When it comes...
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