ConservationBytes.com

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Biodiversity conservation research, personalities, activities or paradigms that do not achieve their aims. I expose ineffective conservation interventions and research, identify egregious anti-environmental practices and conservation hypocrites, and highlight studies identifying weaknesses in conservation policy or approaches.

• Worried about Earth’s future? Well, the outlook is worse than even scientists can grasp
• South Australia is still killing dingoes
• Victoria, please don’t aerial-bait dingoes
• University rankings are questionable at best
• “Overabundant” wildlife usually isn’t
• Biodiversity offsetting is off-putting
• South Australia’s broken biodiversity legislation
• The European Union just made bioenergy worse for biodiversity
• Why populations can’t be saved by a single breeding pair
• Not 100% renewable, but 0% carbon
• Inaugural Environmental Arsehat of the Year
• Vote for the 2016 Environmental Arsehat of the Year
• Conservation is many things to many people
• More things stay the same, more we retrogress
• Most-bestest Environment Minister in the world, ever
• Environmental Arsehats
• Disadvantages of marine protected areas
• Bad science
• Lomborg: a detailed citation analysis
• Something rotten from Denmark
• It’s not all about cats
• We generally ignore the big issues
• Time to put significance out of its misery
• Western Australia’s moronic shark cull
• New Threatened Species Commissioner lacks teeth
• 50/500 still too few
• Cleaning up the rubbish: Australian megafauna extinctions
• Guilty until proven innocent
• Relaxed laws imperil Australian wildlife
• De-extinction is about as sensible as de-death
• No-extinction targets are destined to fail
• Native invaders divide loyalties
• You’re not even remotely concerned enough
• When you have no idea, you should shut up
• The few, the loud, and the factually challenged
• Colour-blind sharks
• The conservation biologist’s toolbox
• Ineffective conservation research
• Failure of CBD 2010 targets
• Failure of Kakadu as a national park
• Fanciful mathematics
• Parochial conservation
• When pigs fly and fish say ‘hi’
• Greenwash, blackwash
• Managing for extinction
• Monkeys and motorbikes
• Covering Cleaning up the Torrens’ filth
• Cloning for conservation
• The Irwin Factor in Conservation Leadership
• When ‘conservationists’ …aren’t
• Captive breeding for conservation