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Recent media hits for CJA Bradshaw…

• Guardian Australia – We should not play Russian roulette with Australia’s national parks
• Murray Valley Standard - Team plants green ideas at Monarto Zoo
• ABC/Yahoo/7 News – Native plantings fight deforestation trend
• Sky News – Experiment in land renewal launched
• Bigpond News – Renewal experiment begins
• Ecos - Carbon economy can also help save Australia’s species
• Sydney Morning Herald – Lines drawn over jewel in the crown
• ABC Radio National | Connect Asia - Demand surging for Indonesia’s frog trade
• National Geographic - Prehistoric plaque and the gentrification of Europe’s mouth
• The Scotsman - Human diet traced over 9000 years thanks to skulls
• Australian Geographic - Fossil bacteria reveal poor state of modern mouth
• ABC Science - Tooth decay bacteria evolved as diet changed
• Sydney Morning Herald - By gum – modern diet blamed as study reveals state of our mouths
• News.com.au - Human mouth in ‘a permanent state of disease’
• Red Orbit - Archeologists study ancient teeth to uncover evolution of disease
• Le Nouvel Observateur - Moins de bactéries, plus de caries
• 20minutes.fr - Nos bouches sont en moins bonne santé que celles de nos lointains ancêtres
• Europa Press - El análisis de bacterias de dientes antiguos permite ver la evolución de la dieta a lo largo de la historia
• iO9 - Preserved bacteria reveal how we’ve been rotting our teeth for 7,500 years
• WBTV - Human teeth healthier in the stone age than today
• Science Recorder - Ancient teeth bacteria show modern diet is rotting our teeth
• Counsel & Heal - 7,500 year old DNA shows rotting teeth a result of modern food habits
• Philadelphia Magazine – The checkup: cavemen had healthier teeth than you
• Conservation Magazine - Blame game: Humans, not disease, could have pushed Tasmanian tiger to extinction
• Australian Geographic - Tassie tiger extinction: humans solely to blame
• Scientific American – Humans alone wiped out Tasmanian tiger
• Terra - Estudo aponta que tigre da Tasmânia foi extinto pelo homem
• Planet Save - Tasmanian Tiger Was Killed Off Entirely By Humans, Not Disease
• Live Science - Humans alone wiped out Tasmanian tiger
• International Business Times – Man, not disease, killed legendary Tasmanian tiger; while Tasmanian devils dying from face-eating cancer
• NBC News - Humans alone to blame for wiping out Tasmanian tiger
• Telegraph - Tasmanian Tiger ‘was killed by man’
• Bangkok Post - Australia’s Tasmanian Tiger killed by man
• La Tercera - El hombre es el único responsable de la extinción del tigre de Tasmania
• SBS/Australian - Humans killed off the thylacine: study
• The Global Mail – A feral cat ate my bilbies
• Australasian Science – Nature arks are sinking
• Business Insider – A formula to decide which endangered species we should save
• ABC News Radio – Scientists find half of the world’s tropical protected areas are struggling to sustain their biodiversity (audio) (re: 2012 Nature paper)
• Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) – Will the carbon economy be good for biodiversity?
• BBC News – Protected tropical forests’ biodiversity ‘declining’ (re: 2012 Nature paper)
• Nature – Protect and serve (re: 2012 Nature paper)
• Bloomberg – Forest ‘disruption’ greater threat than climate change (re: 2012 Nature paper)
• ABC Science – Final tropical forest refuges under threat (re: 2012 Nature paper)
• Mongabay – Half of tropical forest parks losing biodiversity (re: 2012 Nature paper)
  • more media hits on our 2012 Nature paper here and here
• Radio Adelaide – The sharking truth about sharks
• Totally Wild – Feral buffalo in Kakadu National Park
• The Conversation – Can Australia afford the dingo fence?
• Radio Adelaide – Insurance for forests (listen)
• The Conversation – The end of field ecology?
• Ecos magazine - Insurance model for UN forest carbon scheme
• Ecoimagination – If a tree falls… preventing deforestation with insurance
• Eureka Alert!/PhysOrg/Science Codex/ScienceDaily – Saving forests? Take a leaf from insurance industry’s book
• Campus Daily/Terra Daily/Science News Online/Silo Breaker/Medical Xpress/Science Codex/Daily Me/Eureka Alert! - New thinking required on wildlife disease
• The Breakthrough Institute - Can Technology Save the Environment?
• Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age – Babies: is the price too high?
• ABC - Seaweed moves south as oceans warm
• UPI - Seaweeds said vulnerable to climate change
• CBS News - Ocean warming sends Australian seaweed packing
• Science Alert - Biodiversity ‘lost in Southeast Asia’
• Sydney Morning Herald/The Age/Herald Sun - No substitute for natural forests
• BBC News - ‘No substitute’ for virgin forest
• ABC - Species at risk ‘need old growth forests’
• The Conversation - Original and the best: nothing beats primary forests for biodiversity
• EurekAlert! - Old-growth rainforests must be saved for tropical biodiversity
• UPI - Biodiversity highest in pristine forests
• The Epoch Times - Old-Growth Rainforests Vital to Conserve Tropical Biodiversity
• People & The Planet - No substitute for undisturbed tropical forests
• Mongabay - Old-growth forests are irreplaceable for sustaining biodiversity
• ABC Science – In Depth >> Meet a Scientist >> Corey Bradshaw
• The Conversation - River shark and blue goanna among 1000 new species discovered in New Guinea
• ABC News – Climate research aims to boost forests
• Scientific American - Australian mathematicians say some endangered species “not worth saving”
• Australian Geographic - New method ranks species’ extinction risk
• The Independent (UK) - Your number is up: Species doomed by mathematics
• i Online (Portugal) – Conservação. “Não podemos proteger espécies só porque são queridas”
• Radio Live (New Zealand) – Let kakapo die? [listen]
• Hirado (Hungary) - Új mutató a fajok veszélyeztetettségének mérésére
• Irish Independent - Time’s up as formula predicts extinctions
• Sina.com (Hong Kong) – 訂優先搶救瀕危物種衡量辦法 科學家指毛鼻袋熊不值得拯救 (do a Google Translate on this – very funny)
• Chosun.com - 동물 멸종을 계산하는 ‘슬픈 수학 공식’
• Corriere (Italy) - Rischio estinzione? Ora c’è un algoritmo
• Ecofinder - Νέος δείκτης μέτρησης για τα απειλούμενα είδη
• ABC PM - Conservationists fear species index may lead to extinctions [listen]
• Treehugger - New method attempts to determine which endangered species can actually be saved
• Helium – Mass extinction event well underway
• Earth Times - New ‘distance to extinction’ index could sharpen conservation focus
• Worldshare – Australian researchers develop new index to measure species extinction
• The Atlantic – Algorithm finds the hairy-nosed wombat not worth saving
• Science Daily - Scientists have new measure for species threat
• The Morning Bulletin - Scarce funds threat to project
• Digital Journal - Endangered species conservation may be helped by a new index
• La Stampa (Italy) - “Timer” che calcola il rischio di estinzione specie
• Radio NZ - Is the kakapo worth saving? [listen]
• Sydney Morning Herald/Brisbane Times - Can SAFE save the tiger?
• ABC AM - New tool to prioritise conservation of vulnerable species [listen]
• ABC News - Hairy-nosed wombat may not be worth saving
• UPI - New measure of species threat developed
• Mongabay - New method to measure threat of extinction could help conservationists prioritize
• Treehugger - New scale could help save critically endangered species
• The Australian - Extinction index to help save species
• Fast Company - SAFE: A formula to decide which endangered species have the best shot
• Vietnam Tribune - New index shows endangered species
• Science Alert - New guide to predict extinction
• Sydney Morning Herald/The Age - The SAFE way to save a tiger
• PhysOrg/Newswise/EurekAlert! - Scientists have new measure for species threat
• NineMSN - New index shows endangered species
• The Australian - One-in-five mammals are close to extinction as new index shows endangered species
• International Business Times - Scientists develop new measure to determine how close species are to extinction
• Channel Ten News – ‘Colour-blind sharks‘ (interview regarding a recently published paper)
• Jakarta Globe – The fine print on forest protection
• Straits Times - Conservation 101 guide to go online
• Miller-McCune - Curiouser and Curiouser: Hidden Cost of Frog Legs
• Mongabay - Nobel Prize winner, anti-poverty group, scientists fire back at logging lobbyist
• Jakarta Globe - Conservation Debate III: A Rejoinder to Alan Oxley
• Rainforest Action Network - The world’s second oldest profession
• New York Times - Scientists spar with defender of palm oil and pulp firms
• MongaBay - Scientists blast greenwashing by front groups
• Jakarta Globe - The thinker: A middle way
• The Australian – Facts forced to fit agenda
• The Guardian - Leading scientists accuse thinktanks of being logging lobbyists
• Greenpeace UK - Scientists criticise claims by logging and palm oil industry mouthpieces
• The Great Beyond (Nature.com) – Scientists question think tanks’ motives
• The Guardian - Back Biodiversity 100, save our wildlife
• MongayBay – Nation’s wealth does not guarantee green practices
• One India – Isolation of Great Barrier Reef could lead to extinction of marine life⁵
• Science Alert – Quiet reefs risk extinction
• Our Amazing Planet/Live Science/Yahoo! News/Tehran Times – Fish in isolated coral reefs in greater peril
• Australian Geographic – Smaller, isolated reefs more vulnerable
• Sydney Morning Herald – Small reef fish species at risk
• Sify – Isolation of Great Barrier Reef could lead to extinction of marine life
• PhysOrg/LabSpaces/Science Daily/Campus Daily/Innovations Report – Isolation a threat to Great Barrier Reef fish
• Independent Weekly – Progress is a killer
• Bendigo Advertiser – Not ‘buzz off’ but ‘please stay’ bats
• AdelaideNow – Counting to extinction (briefly mentioned here)
• Huffington Post – Our environmental impact rank paper mentioned on Huffington Post
• Daily India/Sify – Global biodiversity much less than previously thought³
• New Scientist – Global biodiversity estimate revised down³
• NewNotizie – Clima: Brasile paese con maggior impatto
• Change.org – New country ranking on wide environmental impacts
• Grist Magazine – Top 10 countries ruining the planet—and more news from around the world
• The Straits Times/AsiaOne – Is Singapore the worst environmental offender?
• Radio Australia – New study ranks Australia among top 10 worst environmental offenders (listen)
• Care2 – Top 10 countries ruining the planet
• CBS News – Study: Getting richer does not mean getting greener
• Radio America – Elaboran una lista de los países que causan mayor impacto medioambiental
• TT.com – Die Umweltsünder dieser Welt: Brasilien, USA und China führen
• Schweiz Magazin – Umweltsünder: Brasilien, USA und China führen
• Tempo Interaktif – Negara Kaya Belum Tentu Berwawasan Lingkungan
• Pressetext Austria – Brasilien, USA und China führen als Umweltsünder
• ABC News Radio – Study shows Australia is in the top 10 countries with worst environmental impact on the planet (listen)
• Viva News – Indonesia, rangking empat perusak lingkungan
• Ecologiae/Giornale di Pachino – Singapore e Brasile sono i Paesi meno amici dell’ambiente, l’Italia per ora è salva
• Epoch Times - 澳洲名列十大环境破坏国
• Cool Earth – Brazil comes top of world’s worst polluters
• Panorama – Foreste: Brasile e Usa in testa alla top ten dei paesi ad alto impatto
• La Scienze – L’impatto ambientale e la ricchezza delle nazioni
• Corriere Della Sera – «Sviluppo insostenibile»: le dieci nazioni con il maggior impatto ambientale
• Babr News – Россию занесли в список лидеров по негативному воздействию на природу
• Ria Novosti – Científicos sitúan a Rusia entre los países con mayor impacto ambiental
• Ria Novosti – Россию занесли в список лидеров по негативному воздействию на природу
• Live Science/Yahoo! News – Brazil and U.S. ranked worst for environmental impact
• Smart Planet - U.S. ranks among the top environmental offenders
• Indiaserver – India Ranked 7th Among Worst Climate Polluters, US And China Ranked 2nd And 3rd⁴
• Thaindian News/Economic Times/Top News/China National News/Times of India/The Hindu/Silicon India/OneWorld South Asia/Deccan Herald – India among the worst 10 climate polluters⁴
• Sueddeutsche – Asiatische Umweltsünder
• Dynamic Business – Australia in world’s top ten polluters: Adelaide Uni Study
• Click Green – Brazil sits bottom of global league of nations’ green impact
• Sydney Morning Herald – We’re in the top 10 of worst polluters
• The Age/WA Today/Farm Weekly/Queensland Country Life/Stock Journal/North Queensland Register/Stock & Land/Brisbane Times/The Land/The Independent Weekly – Australia’s global footprint one of the worst
• redOrbit – Countries ranked on environmental impact
• Planetsave – Countries ranked on environmental impact in new study
• Energy Matters – Australia a Top 10 environmental offender
• ABC News/Tree Hugger – Australian ranks in top 10 for environmental harm
• PhysOrg/e!Science/Bright Surf/EurekAlert/News Guide/News Blaze/Newswise/YubaNet/Science Centric – New study ranks countries on environment impact
• Down to Earth (India) – Culled, efficiently
• Mongabay – Nestle’s palm oil debacle highlights current limitations of certification scheme (about our paper accessible here)
• AdelaideNow – Sort blog from the bad
• SARDI Media – Conservation by numbers
• The Environment Institute – Corey Bradshaw named a Scopus Young Researcher of the Year
• The Australian – Conservation gains a technical solution
• AlphaGalileo/R&D Magazine/Science Daily/Science Centric/CiênciaHoje – Killing in the name of conservation
• Kosmos – A jagged truth
• American Scientist – A magic number?
• Natural History magazine – Save the Conifers: Northern forests need protection, too
• Conservation Magazine – Last Legs: The not-so-healthy appetite for frog legs
• ScienceNOW Daily News – Trade in frog legs may spread disease³
• Science Alert – Sharks vulnerable to change
• Payson Roundup – Endangered species triage way too late
• Slashfood – World’s frog capital forced to import frogs for festival²
• The Adelaidean – Raise targets to prevent extinction
• Turkish Weekly – Is frog delicacy on its last legs?
• ABC Midday Report/Triple J/ABC 702 – Concern over looming extinction threats
• Time Magazine – When is a species endangered?
• Conservation Magazine – Greater expectations
• Futura – Conservation: des objectifs trop bas pour les espèces menacées
• Ecologiae – I calcoli sulla sopravvivenza delle specie a rischio sono sbagliati
• BigHunter – Le specie a rischio estinzione potrebbero essere molte di più
• Mongabay – To save species conservationists must focus on conserving at least 5000 individuals
• News.com.au – How low should they go to avoid extinction
• Environmental News Network – New Research Suggests Conservation Biologists are Setting Minimum Population Size Targets Too Low to Prevent Extinction
• Peak Oil – Populations of endangered species falling too far
• Conservation Maven – Conservation targets too small to fight extinction, study argues
• PhysOrg – Conservation targets too small to stop extinction: study
• Science Daily/redOrbit/Innovations Report/Yahoo India News/YubaNet/e! Science News/First Science/Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News/Bio-Medicine/News Guide/EurekAlert/Net India123/Biology News Net/LittleAbout/Gaea Times/NewsTrack India/WebIndia123/Daily India/NewKerala/DNA India/Track.in News/Bright Surf/AndhraNews/Newspost Online – Conservation targets too small to stop extinction
• The Examiner – Current conservation targets may not prevent extinction in a warming world
• New Scientist – Conservation targets too low to save at-risk species
• Courrier International – Siberia under threat of chainsaws
• ABC Country Hour (SA) – Urgent call to preserve boreal forest
• El Mundo – Illegal timber from Siberia
• Tiempos de la Internet – Boreal forests threatened by climate change
• Der Standard – Boreal forest threatens Amazon fate
• Ria Novosti – Environmental threat looming over the boreal forest
• Panorama – Taiga is the new Amazon: the last intact forests at risk
• Pressetexte – Largest forest area in the world at high risk
• El Mundo – Warning about boreal forest degradation
• Gazeta.ru – Russia cuts most
• World Science – Last great forest under threat, study finds
• G-Online/Innovations Report – World’s last great forests under threat
• Sydney Morning Herald – Forest threat
• Thaindian/Newstrack India/Gaea Times/Daily India/Little About/Australian News- World’s last remaining “pristine” forest under threat
• Malaysia Sun/Mangalorean/Sindh Today/Thaindian – Fires, humans threaten world’s last few pristine forests
• Western Star – Corner Brook professor among those trying to save boreal
• ScienceAlert – Pristine forest starting to go
• PhysOrg/ScienceDaily/Eureka/R&D/InSciences/Science Centric/Biology News Net/redOrbit – World’s last great forest under threat: new study
• ABC – Fewer mosquitoes may be a bad thing
• Mongabay – Boreal forests in wealthy countries being rapidly destroyed
• Guardian Food Blog – Are frogs on their last legs?
• Guardian – Why we shouldn’t eat frogs’ legs
• ABC – Climate change could hit aquaculture
• AdelaideNow – Experts warn of climate change threat to seafood industry
• ABC Online – Illegal fishing continues to devastate northern stocks
• Science Alert – Illegal fishing still a problem
• Straits Times (Singapore) – More beachings to come?
• AFP/Economic Times – Climate change to bring more whale beachings
• Science Alert – Model makes malaria forecasts
• Malaysia Sun/The Hindu – Researchers can predict number of mosquitoes two months ahead
• NewsTrack India/Thaindian - Scientists find way to predict mosquito outbreaks
• Science Daily – Predicting mosquito outbreaks for disease control
• Radio Australia News – Pacific mosquito breakthrough claimed
• Independent Weekly – Research to help check mosquito-borne diseases
• AdelaideNow – SA scientists can predict dangerous mosquito plagues
• ABC Online – System developed to predict mosquito outbreaks
• Russia Today – Who ate all the frogs?
• Discovery Channel – Global appetite for frog legs threatens species
• ABC Bush Telegraph – Frogs’ legs furore (listen)
• BBC News – A billion frogs on world’s plates
• Washington Post – Eaten to extinction?
• The Australian – Humans eating frogs into extinction
• Los Angeles Times – Are frogs being ‘eaten to extinction’? Some researchers say yes
• CBC Quirks & Quarks – Frog leg feeding frenzy (listen)
• Sydney Morning Herald – Frogs are on their last legs: study
• ABC Radio – Appetite for frog legs leading to extinction (listen)
• Radio New Zealand – Frog feast (listen)
• SBS – Ecologist says frogs legs should be off the menu (listen)
• SBS – Frogs in danger of croaking it (listen)
• NZ Herald – Frogs on their last legs: study
• Toronto Star – Extinction path. Garlicky legs
• Straits Times – Global appetite for frogs’ legs could see them croak
• Science News – Overly hungry for frogs
• PresseText (Germany) – Eine Mrd. Frösche landen jährlich auf den Tellern
• MongaBay.com – One billion frogs harvested as food per year
• National Geographic News Watch – Are Humans Now Eating Frogs to Extinction?
• Cosmos Magazine – Frog leg trade sending amphibians extinct
• NDTV.com (India) – Endangered: Frogs vanishing as they turn part of dining menu
• ABC (USA) – Appetite For Frogs’ Legs Harming Wild Populations
• The Age – Frogs are on their last legs: study
• Science Alert – Delicious frogs heading for extinction
• The Hindu (India) – Frogs vanishing as they become part of dinning [sic] menu
• News24 (South Africa) – Frogs about to croak
• Economic Times (India) – Frogs in danger of being ‘eaten to extinction’
• AdelaideNow – Frogs on their last legs
• The Earth Times – Researchers say frogs about to croak
• Sky News – Frogs on their last legs – study
• ScienceDaily – Frogs Are Being Eaten To Extinction, Experts Say
• PerthNow – Humans eating frogs into extinction
• ABC – Appetite for frog legs leading to extinction
• New Scientist – Appetite for frogs’ legs harming wild populations
• ABC Adelaide – Grey nurse sharks
• AdelaideNow – Grey nurse sharks will venture into our waters
• Mongabay.com – Limestone karsts – islands of biodiversity in Asia – under threat from mining
• Plenty Magazine – Could global warming benefit one species of endangered shark?¹
• ABC – Climate change ‘may save’ grey nurse shark¹
• AdelaideNow – Young Tall Poppy Science Awards announced
• Uni Adelaide – Five Tall Poppies of science at Uni of Adelaide
• Discovery Channel – Is the world’s largest shark shrinking?
• Cambodian Times – Loss of forests spells death of bio-diversity
• Mongabay.com – Tropical biodiversity on “a trajectory toward disaster”
• Daily India – World is fast losing battle over tropical habitat loss
• Malaysia Sun – World is fast losing battle over tropical habitat loss
• Independent Weekly – Forest loss a threat
• ScienceAlert – Tropical habitats disappearing fast
• Adelaide Now – Forest loss ‘threatening humans’
• Herald Sun – Forest loss ‘threatening humans’
• The Australian – Forest loss ‘threatening humans’
• Brisbane Courier Mail – Forest loss ‘threatening humans’
• The Daily Telegraph Australia – Time for that tropical getaway
• The Daily Green – World Losing Rain Forest the Size of Illinois Every Year
• Thaindian News – World is fast losing battle over tropical habitat loss
• Thaindian News – Loss of forests spells death of bio-diversity
• News.com.au – Forest loss ‘threatening humans’
• Radio Adelaide – Corruption killing the world’s forests
• ABC Radio National (Bush Telegraph) – Invasive or threatened?
• United Press International (USA) – Scientists ID species’ ecological fates
• ScienceAlert: Study determines ‘species to watch’
• Thaindian News (Bangkok): New study to identify species prone to extinction under environmental change
• Conservation Magazine: Flood Insurance
• Ecos: No easy solutions to Kakadu’s feral animal problem

¹I didn’t actually say anywhere in this interview that climate change would ‘save’ grey nurse sharks; I did say that increased population connectivity resulting from warming waters might reduce extinction risk. I loathe how reporters ‘quote’ scientists even when they never actually said these words. Ah, the sensationalism of scientific media!

²Another corker of bad ‘journalism’. See post here for explanation

³My comments on another paper.

⁴What? It’s not about climate pollution – it’s a bloody environmental degradation metric. Did these people even read the paper? Another classic example of hack-and-regurgitate reporting.

⁵While the article isn’t too awful, the title misses the point of the paper entirely.