Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
From Australia to Africa, fences are stopping Earth’s great animal migrations
For time immemorial, many wildlife species have survived by undertaking heroic long-distance migrations. But many of these great migrations are …
China-backed Sumatran dam threatens the rarest ape in the world
The plan to build a massive hydropower dam in Sumatra as part of China’s immense Belt and Road Initiative threatens the habitat …
China’s growing footprint on the globe threatens to trample the natural world
Chinese investment is driving an unprecedented investment boom in global infrastructure, but it is harming the planet
Around the world, environmental laws are under attack in all sorts of ways
Essential environmental safeguards are being conveniently downsized, diminished, ignored or swept under the carpet all over the world
The global road-building explosion is shattering nature
Roads have sliced and diced almost the entire land surface of Earth, leaving huge areas prone to illegal logging, mining and hunting
Radical overhaul needed to halt earth’s sixth great extinction event
Changes in climate could have contributed, but humans with their hunting and fires were almost certainly the death knell for many of these species