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Tropical forests worth more standing
© R. Butler Keeping with the oil palm theme… A paper just published online in Conservation Letters by Venter and colleagues entitled Carbon payments as a safeguard for threatened tropical mammals gets...
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June Issue of Conservation Letters
Quick off the mark this month is the new issue of Conservation Letters. There are some exciting new papers (listed below). I encourage readers to have a look: Policy Perspectives Briggs, SV....
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Ray of conservation light for Borneo
This was the most interesting 20 minutes I’ve spent in the last wee while. Up until just now, I had never heard of Willie Smits or what he’s been doing in Indonesia. I’ve been fairly hard on Indonesia...
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Continuing saga of the frogs’ legs trade
© M. Auliya In January we had a flurry of media coverage (see here for examples) about one of our papers that had just come out online in Conservation Biology – Eating frogs to extinction (Warkentin...
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China’s insatiable lust for tropical timber
If you’ve been following ConservationBytes.com for the past few weeks, you’ll know that William Laurance was in town and gave a fantastic set of talks (download podcasts here). As a parting gift, he...
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Wolves in sheep’s clothing: industrial lobbyists and the destruction of...
© http://www.volkswagon.com As of this morning, a group of distinguished scientists (which I have had the honour of being invited to join) has released an Open Letter to be published in various...
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Wolves masquerading as sheep: the fallout
© New Zealand Films Well, we’ve managed to stimulate quite a lively conversation after dropping the Open Letter about Scientific Credibility and the Conservation of Tropical Forests regarding the...
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Taxonomy in the clouds
Another post (see previous here, here and here) by my aspiring science-communicator PhD student, Salvador Herrando-Pérez. – Taxonomy uses rigorous rules of nomenclature to classify living beings, so...
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How buggered are our hairy red cousins?
Here’s a post from one of our lab’s post-doctoral fellows, Dr. Stephen Gregory. Stephen just got back from Borneo (jammy bastard), and will now regale you with his exploits. – © Danau Girang Field...
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No substitute for primary forest
© Romulo Fotos http://goo.gl/CrAsE A little over five years ago, a controversial and spectacularly erroneous paper appeared in the tropical ecology journal Biotropica, the flagship journal of the...
View ArticleAnother nail in Borneo’s biodiversity coffin
I always try to tell myself never “to underestimate the stupidity of the human race”; yet, I am too often surprised. Borneo is one of the places in the tropics with the worst track record in destroying...
View ArticleUnexpected benefits of falling palm oil prices
This one from Mongabay.com and the Jakarta Post. It would almost be humorous, if it weren’t so pathetic. After years of so-called ‘greenwashing’ tactics to downplay the environmental degradation caused...
View ArticleSave the biggest (and closest) ones
A paper we recently wrote and published in Biological Conservation entitled Using biogeographical patterns of endemic land snails to improve conservation planning for limestone karsts lead by my...
View ArticleMore greenwashing from the Malaysian oil palm industry
A recent article from Mongabay.com. What the good doctor Basiron appears to gloss over rather well is that his own country’s very economic future, well-being of its citizenry and long-term...
View ArticleTropical Turmoil II
In August last year I covered a paper my colleagues (Navjot Sodhi and Barry Brook) and I had in press in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment entitled Tropical turmoil – a biodiversity tragedy in...
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