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A Conservation Classic: How Wolves Change Rivers
This story has been around for many years, but it’s still just as good. I find myself repeating an abridged version quite often when I make the case for predator reintroduction to Scotland (or at least...
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Introducing Expedition Angano [VIDEO]
I’m really pleased with how Expedition Angano is coming together. Our Indiegogo campaign is gathering pace, the expedition team is packed full of skills and experience, the logistics are getting there...
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Can We Bring Species Back From Extinction? (…and should we?)
I was at a school last week and a student in the audience put me right on the spot with a tough question. She asked, ‘If you could bring one species back from extinction, what would be it?’. After some...
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What Will Conservation Look Like In 50 Years?
In 50 years our world will look very different. If this was a technology or politics blog, then I might hypothesize about all of the new stuff we will have, the global shifts in power or emerging...
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Don’t Be Afraid To Fail
In science it can be hard to publish negative or non-significant results. They just aren’t as interesting as discovering an exciting link between this and that. But in practical conservation for...
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Why Volunteering With Animals Does Nothing For Conservation
Lots of people want to give up their free time to help support conservation. By ‘lots’ I mean relatively – google shows 2,900 searches* for ‘conservation volunteering’ last month – but still, that’s...
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Film Premiere: Life on the Edge
Of all the adventures that working in conservation has brought my way, premiering a film has to be the one that I least expected. I’ve never been to a premiere before, I don’t know anything about films...
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A post-post-truth world: Evidence and conservation in 2017
We all want to make conservation decisions that are likely to be successful, but where to start? What works for one location, might not work for another. What worked for one group of species might be...
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The Honey Hunter (and other incredible field assistants)
Traipsing through the forest one day Jean-Renee cocked his head to the side, listening. ‘Tantelly’ he whispered. ‘Tantelly’ I repeated back in parrot fashion, nodding, but without the faintest idea...
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(Another) Top 10 Books For Conservationists
Facebook feeds us stories and news that reinforce our world views. Now that isn’t so surprising, because you don’t become THE most successful social media platform by making your users feel...
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A Little List of Conservation Podcasts (to get you started)
I may be a little late to the party, but this past year I’ve discovered podcasts. As well as getting to grips with well some known science and technology series (e.g. Radiolabs, Freakonomics and TED...
View ArticleWhy Conservation Is Awesome (A few of the best fieldwork fails)
I love it – #fieldworkfail has to be the best thing that ever happened on Twitter (right after #IamaScientistBecause). All the best made plans rapidly unravel whenever you put scientists into the...
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