... of this complaint is abundantly clear in the book emerging from the 2012 Royal Zoological Society of NSW forum entitled Grumpy scientists: the ecological conscience of a nation (Hutchings 2013; Recher 2013; Rose 2013). We concluded with a paper that drew attention to the need for an ecological conscience (Lunney et...

... are bad policies. The enormous scope and complexity of conserving biodiversity, just on the zoological side of the ledger, is glaring. When Adam (2013, p83) presented his views as a grumpy scientist in a forum of the Royal Zoological Society of NSW (Lunney et al. 2013a), he had already expressed his...

...-50. Lunney, D. 2013. Is a grumpy ecologist an oxymoron? Pp. 95-105 in Grumpy scientists: the ecological conscience of a nation, edited by D. Lunney, P. Hutchings and H.F. Recher. Royal Zoological Society of NSW, Mosman, Australia httpdx.doi. org/10.7882/FS.2013.018 Lunney, D., Recher, H. F...

.... Our initial predisposition as forum organisers and then editors was to expand the thesis of Science under Siege (Banks et al. 2012) and Grumpy Scientists (Lunney et al. 2013) with more examples, more emphasis and a greater sense of urgency. Ultimately, however, we thought of tackling the problem...

...) Zoology Under Threat Grumpy Scientists:The 2013 Ecological Conscience of a Nation 1 Australia (79) Australia (37) Australia (27) Top 5 ranked countries (n) 2 USA (9) New Zealand (3) USA (2) 3 Germany (3) South Africa (3) 4 China (2) USA (3) 5 Brazil, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, Russian...