Hugh Possingham

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We have to get smarter about the way we manage Australia’s national parks. Nic Prins

Our national parks must be more than playgrounds or paddocks

Euan Ritchie, Deakin University; Bill Laurance, James Cook University; Corey J. A. Bradshaw, University of Adelaide; David M Watson, Charles Sturt University; Emma Johnston, UNSW ; Hugh Possingham, The University of Queensland; Ian Lunt, Charles Sturt University, and Michael McCarthy, The University of Melbourne

It’s make or break time for Australia’s national parks. National parks on land and in the ocean are dying a death of a thousand cuts, in the form of bullets, hooks, hotels, logging concessions and grazing…
Closing about 100 man-made bodies of water could stop cane toads from spreading further into Australia’s north west, the study found. http://www.flickr.com/photos/blundershot

Close 100 man‑made lakes to stop cane toad spread: study

Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation

Shutting down around 100 man-made water storage structures in Australia’s north west could stop the spread of cane toads into Western Australia’s Pilbara region, a new study has found. Cane toads, which…
We don’t have enough money to save all species, but would invertebrates get a look in if the public chose what lived and died? Howard Rawson

The public should help decide which species to save and which to let go

Michael McCarthy, The University of Melbourne and Hugh Possingham, The University of Queensland

At current levels of funding, it is not possible to save all threatened species in Australia from extinction. Trade-offs are required. For example, managers could concentrate efforts on the most threatened…
Habitat of the Eastern Curlew along its migratory pathway in east Asia is rapidly being reclaimed for development. Dean Ingwersen

The numbers are in: Australia must do more to protect migratory birds

Stephen Garnett, Charles Darwin University; Hugh Possingham, The University of Queensland, and Judit Szabo, Charles Darwin University

Australia is a signed up member of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and a strong supporter of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Both these global programs are trying to reduce the rate…

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