September 2010 Issue of Conservation Letters out
Conservation Letters‘ fifth issue (September) of Volume 3 is now out. Some good ones here. A mismatch of scales: challenges in planning for implementation of marine protected areas in the Coral...
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Another development fiasco that, if it goes ahead, will devastate a Biodiversity Hotspot and ultimately, reduce the livelihood prospects of millions of West Africans. In yet another move to expose and...
View ArticleOutright bans of trophy hunting could do more harm than good
In July 2015 an American dentist shot and killed a male lion called ‘Cecil’ with a hunting bow and arrow, an act that sparked a storm of social media outrage. Cecil was a favourite of tourists visiting...
View ArticleInexorable rise of human population pressures in Africa
I’ve been a bit mad preparing for an upcoming conference, so I haven’t had a lot of time lately to blog about interesting developments in the conservation world. However, it struck me today that my...
View ArticleTransition from the Anthropocene to the Minicene
I’ve just returned from a life-changing trip to South Africa, not just because it was my first time to the continent, but also because it has redefined my perspective on the megafauna extinctions of...
View ArticleValuing what we have to prevent it from disappearing
I acknowledge that I’ve been banging on a bit about southern Africa over the last few weeks, but I defend my enthusiasm on the grounds that my first trip to the Kruger National Park profoundly changed...
View ArticlePotential conservation nightmare unfolding in South Africa
Like most local tragedies, it seems to take some time before the news really grabs the overseas audience by the proverbial goolies. That said, I’m gobsmacked that the education tragedy unfolding in...
View ArticleInfluential conservation ecology papers of 2017
As I have done for the last four years (2016, 2015, 2014, 2013), here’s another retrospective list of the top 20 influential conservation papers of 2017 as assessed by experts in F1000 Prime. More than...
View ArticleDrivers of protected-area effectiveness in Africa
I’ve just read an interesting paper published in late 2016 in Conservation Biology that had so far escaped my attention. But given my interest in African conservation recently (and some interesting...
View ArticlePrimate woes where the oil palm grows
A new article just published in PNAS reveals how future expansion of the palm-oil industry could have terrible consequences for African primates. Researchers from the European Commission’s Joint...
View ArticleIncreasing human population density drives environmental degradation in Africa
Almost a decade ago, I (co-) wrote a paper examining the socio-economic correlates of gross, national-scale indices of environmental performance among the world’s nations. It turned out to be rather...
View ArticleSeptember 2010 Issue of Conservation Letters out
Conservation Letters‘ fifth issue (September) of Volume 3 is now out. Some good ones here. A mismatch of scales: challenges in planning for implementation of marine protected areas in the Coral...
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