Category: australia
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Land clearing on the rise as legal ‘thinning’ proves far from clear-cut
April Reside, The University of Queensland; Anita J Cosgrove, The University of Queensland; Jennifer Lesley Silcock, The University of Queensland; Leonie Seabrook, The University of Queensland, and Megan C Evans, The University of Queensland Land clearing is accelerating across eastern Australia, despite our new research providing a clear warning of its impacts on the Great…
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Hume Highway nestbox offset: ecological, economic and governance failure
Our new paper in Biological Conservation has been featured in an article on ABC News: A review of a $200,000 effort to protect animals impacted by a major roadworks project in southern NSW has found its attempts to assist the survival of threatened species have failed. Researchers spent four years assessing the Southern Hume Highway Duplication…
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Deforestation in Australia: drivers, trends and policy responses
Here is my presentation delivered at the Society for Conservation Biology – Oceania Conference this week in Brisbane, where I spoke within the symposium Conservation Oceania Style: Highlighting Oceania’s unique approaches to conservation biology and on ground outcomes The talk summarises my recent paper in a special issue of Pacific Conservation Biology. There’s also a short summary in…
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Queensland moves to control land clearing: other states need to follow
This article was originally published in The Conversation, and features my new paper published in Pacific Conservation Biology Queensland’s land clearing has yet again become a national issue. After laws were relaxed under the Liberal-National State government in 2013, land clearing rates tripled, undermining efforts to conserve wildlife and reduce carbon emissions. Now the current…
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Farming carbon can be a win for wildlife, if the price is right
Here’s our piece in The Conversation today: Megan Evans, Australian National University; Anna Renwick, The University of Queensland; Josie Carwardine, CSIRO, and Tara Martin, CSIRO Climate change and the loss of biodiversity are two of the greatest environmental issues of our time. Is it possible to address both of those problems at once? In Australia,…
Megan C. Evans 