In case you couldn’t be there in person, here’s the podcast of last week’s talk I gave at the University of Adelaide’s Research Tuesdays seminar series – A world of hurt. The true global death count of environmental degradation.
View video here. See also the ‘Between the Buttons’ preamble AudioBoo here.
Non-native species introduced mainly via increasing trade of goods and services have huge economic, health, and environmental costs. These ‘biological invasions’ involve the intentional or unintentional transport and release of species beyond their native biogeographical ranges, facilitating their potential spread. Over the last few decades, invasive species have incurred an average cost of at least…
Wildfire burns between 3.94 million and 5.19 million square kilometres of land every year worldwide. If that area were a single country, it would be the seventh largest in the world. In Australia, most fire occurs in the vast tropical savannas of the country’s north. In new research published in Nature Geoscience, we show Indigenous…
Australia is home to about one in 12 of the world’s species of animals, birds, plants and insects – between 600,000 and 700,000 species. More than 80% of Australian plants and mammals and just under 50% of our birds are found nowhere else. But habitat destruction, climate change, and invasive species are wreaking havoc on Earth’s…
ConservationBytes.com 
[…] The podcast from Corey Bradshaw’s Research Tuesday Talk “A World of Hurt” is now available. Further information including links to the official video and a short interview via Corey’s blog. […]
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Corey, brilliant stuff!
This talk is too important to be locked up in a difficult to manage video file. I have taken the liberty of turning it into an .mp3 file that will iTunes will automatically download and sync to people’s portable media devices.
Subscribe to http://environmentinstitute.wordpress.com/feed/
in iTunes and enjoy the beauty of true podcasting.
p.s I would strongly encourage you to set up a free slideshare.net account, upload your slides and turn them into a web playable ‘slidecast’ by linking to the .mp3 file which now resides on the environment institute media server. Call me if you want help or need to be persuaded.
Fang – Mike Seyfang
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Done. Great suggestion, Fang. New post with the slidecast.net webinar now posted.
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[…] A world of hurt: The true global death count of environmental degradation – Corey’s talk. Filed Under: Environment by mothincarnate — Leave a comment May 19, 2010 As promised, Corey Bradshaw has released the podcast of his public lecture A world of hurt. The true global death count of environmental degradation. […]
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