Today on The Conversation, it was reported that 60 % of 145 economists surveyed support Australia’s new Carbon Tax scheme.
I am wondering what kind of support there is for it out there amongst ecologists. If you are one, please complete the following short survey by clicking here.
I’ll post the results in a few days.
People outside Australia might not have heard about the (unfortunately, not unprecedented) intervention of the acting Minister for Education and Youth to deny funding to six Australian Research Council (ARC: Australia’s main scientific funding body) Discovery Grants that had been assessed and recommended for funding by the College of Experts. As an acting College of […]
No matter most people’s best intentions, poaching of species in Sub-Saharan Africa for horn and ivory continues unabated. Despite decades of policies, restrictions, interventions, protections, and incentives, many species of elephant and rhino are still hurtling toward extinction primarily because of poaching. Clearly, we’re doing something heinously wrong. Collectively, we have to take a long, […]
Following my annual tradition, I present the retrospective list of the ‘top’ 20 influential papers of 2021 as assessed by experts in Faculty Opinions (formerly known as F1000). These are in no particular order. See previous years’ lists here: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, and 2013. Amazonia as a carbon source linked to deforestation and climate change — “… confirms what the […]
ConservationBytes.com 
[…] ecosystem services, including inter alia global-scale carbon taxes, water trading, pollination valuation and nutrient cycling, are to be set up immediately within […]
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[…] thought that it would be good to survey ecologists on this very same issue because we are the people dealing with the fall-out of climate change to […]
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