Associate Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
Associate Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at Deakin University's Centre for Integrative Ecology. I apply ecological theory with good doses of field work to seek solutions to the challenges of conserving biodiversity.
Jan 04, 2024 04:38 am UTC| Nature
Across the vast Australian continent, feral pigs, feral deer and European rabbits roam in their millions. By different names wild boar, venison and lapin these could all be served in a Michelin star restaurant. Feral...
5 things we need to see in Australia's new nature laws
Nov 19, 2023 05:52 am UTC| Law
Australias abysmal rates of extinctions and land clearing since European colonisation are infamous globally. Our national environmental legislation has largely failed to protect biodiversity, including many threatened...
Guardian dogs, fencing, and 'fladry' protect livestock from carnivores
Sep 27, 2018 10:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Farmers have struggled for millennia to protect their livestock from wolves, lions, bears, and other large carnivores. Its expensive and time-consuming for farmers, governments and related agencies. Many current approaches...
Why the WA government is wrong to play identity politics with dingoes
Sep 02, 2018 22:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Australias Commonwealth Coat of Arms depicts two iconic native animals the kangaroo and the emu. Both are unquestionably fair dinkum Aussies, unique to this continent and having lived here for a very long time. A very...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight