A few weeks late, but very pleased to share this new piece on biodiversity credits, led by Sven Wunder and Sophus zu Ermgassen: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We had a brilliant week at #ICCB2025. Congrats to @yfchung.bsky.social for making the shortlist for best student talk! And thanks to the superb organising committee and all the volunteers 🙏 Loved catching up with so many wonderful colleagues; safe travels home to all

Outrageous views of noisy pitta and buff-banded rails at the #ICCB2025 conference bird walk this morning - thanks @coorongdan.bsky.social for your excellent co-guiding!

@martinemaron.bsky.social squeezing How To Fix Offsets (paraphrasing) into 3 minutes. Exceptionally I might add. Key message for me was applying absolute, rather than net gain, the latter inevitably leading to more loss. Standing room only I might add! #ICCB2025 @iccb2025.bsky.social

First publication from my PhD is out! Do private land conservation policies and programs adequately consider climate change?🌿🌡️ Read: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Huge thanks to my advisors Jonathan Rhodes, @martinemaron.bsky.social, and Michael Drielsma, and to amazing funding partners

The fight for Woogaroo Forest: new housing could silence some of Queensland’s ‘virtuoso songbirds’

Join me at UNSW Canberra School of Business! We're looking for a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in #Economics to deliver undergraduate and postgraduate economics teaching and research #academicjobs #academicsky external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

All so horribly familiar from Australia—the laboratory for corporate-friendly environmental policies "At present, builders are supposed to follow a “mitigation hierarchy”: avoid, minimise, mitigate, offset. ... The new bill scratches all that, jumping straight to option 4: offsetting."

When do forests and woodlands become valuable habitat? New research shows some threatened species can start rebuilding their homes in forests that are as young as 3 years old. While some need trees that are much older with hollows. Threatened species need old growth, but they need regrowth too.

Allowing forests to regrow and regenerate is a great way to restore habitat - new research from Hannah Thomas estimates the habitat values of regrowth for threatened species in Qld theconversation.com/allowing-for...

Don't forget to apply for this PhD in lovely Aotearoa! Closes 30th April

Guardian Australia has launched a series about nature and threatened species. It's called Last Chance: The extinction crisis the Australian federal election is ignoring. Includes videos, news and comment pieces. Here's a preview of what it's about: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4kQ...

A new series our climate and environment team has been working on about nature and the extinction crisis launches today. We’ve got more videos, news, and analysis coming over the next week

Why isn't nature an issue this federal election? Simple really - because both major parties are totally captured by and beholden to polluting industries, notably fossil gas and farmed salmon. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

We welcome today's policy commitment to allocate 1% of the federal budget to nature care by @greens.org.au It's what Australian nature needs. See what some of our experts had to say about the commitments. biodiversitycouncil.org.au/news/biodive...

March issue: Review led by @martinemaron.bsky.social evaluating the efficacy of biodiversity offsets and, despite their limitations, the role they can play in conservation. Web link: www.nature.com/articles/s44... Free to read and download throughout 2025!

Thanks, @euanritchie.bsky.social & @martinemaron.bsky.social and John for this powerful article & msg to our leaders. Pleased the #PalmCockatooProject could provide the lead image. This tree sadly burned to ash. 1 of many b/c of bad fire. To help palmies: www.peopleforwildlife.org/theapudthama...

Australia’s wildlife and environments are world renowned, but in deep, deep trouble. What’s urgently needed, and entirely possible, to begin turning things around? In the lead up to the federal election we discuss what Australia’s next government can and must do theconversation.com/australians-....

New by @euanritchie.bsky.social John Woinarski and me: Australians want nature protected. These 3 environmental problems should be top of the next government’s to-do list theconversation.com/australians-...

Looking for a PhD in birds and woodlands? We have a funded project available to those eligible to apply as a domestic student (in Australia) @uq-cbcs.bsky.social - message me if interested!

PhD project on bird conservation at UQ with @martinemaron.bsky.social and April Reside. Student needed asap in 2025

New Review: Biodiversity offsets, their effectiveness and their role in a nature positive future 🌎🧪 From @martinemaron.bsky.social and colleagues. Web: go.nature.com/41jFsar Free online for the year!

Birding is booming in Australia @birdlifeoz.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

Australian nature: if our laws don’t radically change, environmental degradation will continue

2024 has been an enormous year for our small but mighty team. Learn about our incredible 2024 impacts here: biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/bi... It would not have been possible without our supporters. Thank you for helping us to be loud for nature!

It's time we change the narrative around Australia's mistletoe! After all, it's possibly the coolest plant in our landscape 😎 That's why we want to plant more of it! Check out our mistletoe propagation manual, developed with Mindaribba Local Aboriginal Land Council: www.calameo.com/read/0041078...

Minutes after officially recommending a "greenfield" coal mine be approved in Queensland, and approving extensions to three others, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek boldly declared no new coal mines have been approved in 2024.

The cognitive dissonance is strong in this one... Albanese government approves FOUR coalmine extensions; Melbourne expected to hit 40C on Boxing Day www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Really powerful analogy of the impact of invertebrate extinctions from @jessmarsh.bsky.social in her interview on ABC Radio ✈️ Jess also highlights the importance of planting native gardens to help support your local invertebrates 🌍 #invertebrates #conservation #extinction

#conservation #job Queensland Australia www.seek.com.au/job/80789212... For more information on the role, contact: Emeritus Prof Marc Hockings, President, Wildlife Queensland [email protected]

Heads-up! Working Dog Productions' classic comedy series #Frontline, about tabloid current affairs tv, is now available on ABC iview. 📺 #comedy #journalism iview.abc.net.au/show/frontline

Brodie Crouch with a fantastic summary of why there’s not yet enough interest in retaining brigalow regrowth on farms, but how researchers can help characterise its multiple benefits and better engage with both graziers and financial institutions #ESAus2024

Prof Brendan Wintle: Nature Repair Market has been a distraction from Nature Law Reform & funding for nature conservation. Until disclosure is mandatory, NRM will not have a pos impact. ‘Biodiversity offsets do not work 4 biodiversity. It’s time we see that 25yr experiment as a failure,’ #ESAus2024

Important work by @clarebracey.bsky.social revealing how and why private protected areas are more valuable for woodland birds - similar veg, but more leaf litter and mistletoe #ESAus2024

Hannah Fraser on our project to develop condition metrics for all Australian bird communities - thank you to the ~ 100 experts who have supported us so far! #ESAus2024

Hannah Thomas revealing the habitat values of regrowth vegetation for threatened species in Qld - even quite young regrowth important for many species #ESAus2024

Stellar lineup in this mornings #naturepositive symposium at #ESAus2024

SO excited to be at #ESAus24 the next couple of days, hanging with all the clever, passionate and lovely ecology folk from across Oz. Come and say g’day!

The Qld coast is looking gorgeous today but I’m off south to #ESAus24 in Melb, looking forward to the catch ups!

A synthesis of threats impacting Australian threatened ecological communities onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Great to see this! "Our evaluation of plant-derived fire prescriptions suggests that the intervals considered acceptable for maintaining floristic diversity may not be sustainable for populations of birds requiring longer unburnt vegetation..." esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The Murray-Darling Basin Plan has failed to meet most environmental and social indicators of success: water bird abundance has fallen, fish kill events from poor water quality have increased and the volume of Indigenous water holdings has declined, as examples. #nature #environment #conservation

A $13 billion, 30-year flop: landmark study reveals stark failure to halt Murray-Darling River decline theconversation.com/a-13-billion...

“If the consequence of selling a credit is that that business who is buying it uses it to offset a loss or uses it to maintain business as usual and not change their business practices at all, you’re not actually getting more nature at all.” www.afr.com/policy/energ...

The New South Wales parliament has passed the “biggest reforms to the biodiversity offsets scheme since its inception” after inquiries triggered by a 2021 Guardian Australia investigation.

Greens offer eleventh-hour deal to rescue stalled environmental laws www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...