How can nature-based forests help combat climate change?
By Anne Salmond The use of ‘permanent’ plantations of pine trees solely to build up carbon offsets is solving one harm with another, writes Dame Anne Salmond. There is an alternative. As Argentinian ecologist Sandra Diaz said during the 2021 Nobel Prize...
How can we sustain Aotearoa’s wildlife? ▶
In this seminar hosted by the University of Auckland Faculty of Science, experts across several disciplines share their knowledge of how we can help sustain Aotearoa’s wildlife into the future. They share their experience in applying Te Tiriti o Waitangi...
How dangerous are humans to sharks?
By Rob Day & Terry Walker A new approach estimates the risks that fishing and climate change pose to any shark species in Australia, and potentially worldwide. Southern Australia has many species of sharks and their relatives. Very few of these species pose any...
How is Tuatara sperm helping conservation efforts in Aotearoa?
By Sarah Lamar, Diane Karen Ormsby, Jennifer Moore, Nicola Jane Nelson & Susan N. Keall Tuatara are ancient, slow and endangered. But their super speedy sperm could boost conservation efforts. New Zealand’s endemic tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) are the sole...
Are we living in the Sixth Extinction?
By Michael Hannah There are solutions to the ecological problems facing the planet and we have some time to implement them – we had better use that time wisely. Towards the end of the Permian period, a little (geologically speaking) over 250 million years ago, the...
What can we do about climate change? Here are five ways to tackle the biodiversity and climate change crises simultaneously
By Pete Smith, Camille Parmesan & Mark Maslin There are options for addressing climate change and biodiversity loss together – so called nature-based solutions – which are solutions to societal challenges that involve working with nature. A landmark...
How are we fighting kauri dieback?
By Anthony Doesburg Progress is being made in the fight against kauri dieback. Anthony Doesburg meets researchers at the University determined to help save the mighty native conifer. There are green shoots of hope in the effort to save New Zealand’s majestic kauri...
From Aptornis to Zosterops: What can be done about an extinction crisis 50,000 years in the making?
By Nic Rawlence Conservation comes down to values. Do we only focus on the charismatic animals and the things we can see, or do we conserve the out-of-sight, out-of-mind Lilliputs? If that world collapses, you can be sure ours is next. I’m standing in the basement of...
How can we address biodiversity loss? ▶
Biodiversity loss and climate change are paramount global existential threats. A conservation scientist must wield a scientific Swiss army knife to successfully undertake research in these topics that informs policy. James Russell has been researching conservation and...Subscribe by Email
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