Category Archives: Conservation

Posted on May 19, 2016 by

Exposing the creatures of the deep Dr Tim O’Hara, Mr Skipton Woolley , Associate Professor Brendan Wintle, Dr Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita and Dr José J. Lahoz-Monfort For the first time, a light has been shone on the diversity of creatures that … Continue reading →

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Moving beyond the Science of Doom at the Inaugural School of BioSciences Seminar

Posted on December 21, 2015 by

contributed by Lucie Bland The School of BioSciences held their inaugural seminar on the 10th of December 2015 in the Sidney Myer Centre at the University of Melbourne. The seminar aimed to showcase upcoming views and ideas in conservation, as … Continue reading →

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Saving the most species at #uomOpenDay

Posted on August 17, 2014 by

How should you invest $20 million to save the most species from extinction? That was the challenge we put to visitors to The University of Melbourne Open Day. You can take the challenge too! It is a difficult problem; programs … Continue reading →

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Socially-acceptable conservation planning: how can we integrate biological and social values to improve conservation?

Posted on July 25, 2014 by

By Rachael Vorwerk, Amy Whitehead and Heini Kujala (This article was first published in the July 2014 issue of Decision Point, The Monthly Magazine of the Environmental Decisions Group) Understanding how society perceives and values different areas is important for … Continue reading →

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Gauging the extent of ecosystem novelty: measuring levels of biological invasion

Posted on July 15, 2013 by

By Jane Catford (This article was first published in the July 2013 issue of Decision Point, The Monthly Magazine of the Environmental Decisions Group) It is all very well having an academic definition of novel ecosystems, but how do we identify them in … Continue reading →

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Where are the goal posts now? Setting environmental objectives in novel ecosystems 

Posted on July 9, 2013 by

By Jane Catford (This article was first published in the July 2013 issue of Decision Point, The Monthly Magazine of the Environmental Decisions Group) In a rapidly changing world full of strange new assemblages of species, the goal posts for conservation aren’t as … Continue reading →

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Evidence and the conservation manager: what evidence does a manager need?

Posted on June 12, 2013 by

By Carly Cook (This article was first published in the June 2013 issue of Decision Point, The Monthly Magazine of the Environmental Decisions Group) It’s often said that there’s a gap between conservation science and conservation management, that the work of conservation researchers … Continue reading →

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