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New Curtin Research Resurrects ‘Lost’ Coral Species

With about one-third of the world’s corals currently under threat of extinction due to climate change, Curtin researchers have made the encouraging discovery of a ‘lost’ species of coral that had been hidden for more than 50 years.

5 May 2022

Save Our Seas Foundation Joins Shark Conservation Fund to Save Sharks and Secure Healthy Oceans

The Save Our Seas Foundation (SOSF) has joined the Shark Conservation Fund (SCF) as one of its members. Dr James Lea, the SOSF’s chief executive officer, has joined the advisory board and says of the partnership, ‘I am delighted that we are joining the Shark Conservation Fund.

5 May 2022

Tree Mortality in Tropical Regions Calls Into Question Global Pledges to End Deforestation by 2030

According to new data, the world’s tropical regions dropped 11.1 million hectares of forest cover in 2021, casting doubt on global goals to cease deforestation by 2030.

3 May 2022

Study Findings Likely to be Helpful in Forest Management and Renewal Initiatives Worldwide

The ability of a forest to regenerate after droughts, wildfires, or other disturbances is largely dependent on seed production.

3 May 2022

How Much is Too Much? Finding the Sustainable Limit to Human-caused Wildlife Mortality

An international team of researchers has devised a new conservation tool that estimates the upper limit of wildlife mortality that humans might sustainably inflict. The new tool – SAMSE – has a definin...

3 May 2022

Climate Change Likely to Trigger the Possibility of the Next Pandemic

As continuous warming occurs in the Earth’s climate, scientists forecast wild animals will be compelled to shift their habitat, probably to areas with large human populations. This considerably increases the threat of a viral jump to humans that could result in the next pandemic.

29 Apr 2022

Study Offers Pathways to Improve Monitoring and Evaluation of Climate-Informed Conservation

A new study offers pathways to improve monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of climate-informed conservation while revealing how practitioners are currently monitoring conservation adaptation projects.

28 Apr 2022

Rainforest Birds in Decline in Black Summer Bushfire Aftermath

Functional bird populations vital to rainforest regeneration are struggling to recover in the years after the black summer bushfires devastated Australia, according to a study from the Centre for Ecosystem Science at UNSW Sydney.

28 Apr 2022

Chemistry of Ancient Oak Trees Provides Clues About Past Climate

Researchers will soon be able to reconstruct the climate of north-west Europe including the UK over the last 4500 years, and to date wooden buildings and objects more accurately, by analysing the chemistry of ancient oak trees, through a new Swansea-led project just selected for €3 million in European funding.

27 Apr 2022

Scientists Assess the Role of Future Global Biodiversity Targets for Climate Protection

When the global community is expected to meet for the second part of the UN Biodiversity Conference in Kunming, China, in autumn, it must also adopt the next generation of UN biodiversity targets.

27 Apr 2022