..., and then as a curative to address Australia's increasing biodiversity crisis. The paper examines this paradox, and the legacy of Australia's long-term pairing of toxicology and environmental management. The institutionalisation of poison describes the process whereby the use of poison has become normalised and supported...

...Rose Upton; Kaya Klop-Toker; Nadine Nolan; Samantha Wallace; Anne Ibbotson; Sarah Stock; Roshan Patel; Phil Jobling; John Clulow; Michael Mahony; Alex Callen ABSTRACT The climate crisis adds multiple threats to the already long list of stressors on global biodiversity. The result is a paucity...

... in 1970, and also the networks between national parks managers in Australia and in the United States in this period. The story speaks to the tensions between the national and global in the politics of biological diversity at a time when national parks were seen as the primary solution to a crisis...

... (Figure 5). One hundred respondents said that wildlife rescue services are somewhat important and 18 said they are not important (Figure 5). Has your view on the importance of wildlife rescue services changed as a result of the recent bushfire crisis? Almost 45 per cent (n=367) of survey respondents...

... The biggest global health crisis you ve never heard of Kofi Annan (2018) Introduction In 2011, the World Health Organisation (WHO) listed 17 diseases as prioritised neglected tropical diseases: (1) Buruli ulcer, (2) Chagas disease, (3) dengue, (4) dracunculiasis, (5) echinococcosis (6) leishmaniasis, (7...

... of urban habitats also gives opportunities to restore ecological function and reconnect communities with urban nature, particularly Indigenous communities (Hall et al. 2021b). Conclusion Practitioners and researchers working in urban areas can contribute significantly to averting the biodiversity crisis...

... warnings issued to the human race, warnings which have become ever more imperative. Osborn was writing of ecology Now ecology has assumed a wider meaning. The crisis [is] belatedly recognised as worldwide Man is forced to survey his role in ecological change . What is remarkable is the rapid shift from...

... in insect conservation. J. Aust. Ent. Soc. 30: 97-108. The “Doctor's Dilemma”, or ideals, attitudes and compromise in insect conservation J. Aust. Ent. Soc. 30 97 108 New, T. R., 1993. Angels on a pin: dimensions of the crisis in invertebrate conservation. An. Zool. 33: 623-30. Angels...

... Prize for Environmental of rivers and wetlands. For almost 20 years he worked for Research 2001 for research on conservation of rivers in NSW National Parks and Wildlife and ran a small research arid Australia. The work focussed on the ecological crisis team working on these topics. As these issues...

... Domestic Product, i.e. wealth in dollars), become so great that the practice of biodiversity conservation becomes increasingly dangerous. Richard Kingsford (2013) phrases this point as a rhetorical question: Australia s biodiversity conservation crisis does anyone care? Many care, but despair over...

... for biodiversity and ecosystem services. We are in a biodiversity crisis, documented by a continuing trend in the decline of biodiversity (Butchart et al. 2010). Conservation planning therefore is an area where dangerous ideas positive and negative deserve careful scrutiny. Some clarification of terms...

.... Townsville: Australian Centre for Tropical Freshwater Research, James Cook University. Cumberlidge, N., Ng, P.K.L., Yeo, C.J., Magalhaes, C., Campos, M.R., Alvarez, F., Naruse, T., Daniels, S.R., Esser, L.J., Attipoe, F.Y.K. 2009. Freshwater crabs and the biodiversity crisis: Importance, threats, status...