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Beef is bad; Skippy is better
One for the ‘potential‘ list – George Wilson and Melanie Edwards of Australian Wildlife Services have just published a paper in the Early View section of Conservation Letters entitled Native wildlife...
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Throw another roo on the barbie
Following a previous post on ConservationBytes.com extolling the environmental virtues of eating more kangaroo and less beef (Beef is Bad; Skippy is Better), here’s an article from the Melbourne Age by...
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Some biodiversity with your coffee, Sir?
I really like my coffee. I’m sure there are a few billion humans who claim likewise, but I think I could safely categorise myself as a coffee snob. I cannot even contemplate placing powdery crystals...
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That looks rare – I’ll kill that one
Here’s an interesting (and disturbing) one from Conservation Letters by Gault and colleagues entitled Consumers’ taste for rarity drives sturgeons to extinction. I like caviar, I have to admit. I enjoy...
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How many frogs do we eat?
A paper that my colleagues and I wrote soon to appear in Conservation Biology describes the massive worldwide trade in frog parts for human consumption. I bet you had no idea… This report from New...
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Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss II: frog legs
I couldn’t resist this. Given the enormous response to our soon-to-be-published paper in Conservation Biology entitled Eating frogs to extinction by Warkentin, Bickford, Sodhi & Bradshaw (view post...
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Even Obama eats frog legs
As the seemingly never-ending media blitz covering our paper describing the massive world trade in frog legs continues, I came across a very poignant example of how ubiquitous the trade in frog legs...
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Rare just tastes better
I had written this a while ago for publication, but my timing was out and no one had room to publish it. So, I’m reproducing it here as an extension to a previous post (That looks rare – I’ll kill that...
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Continuing saga of the frogs’ legs trade
In January we had a flurry of media coverage (see here for examples) about one of our papers that had just come out online in Conservation Biology – Eating frogs to extinction (Warkentin et al.). I...
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Eat a feral a week
Just a quick post this week about something I’ve been contemplating for a while. What if every Australian pledged to eat a feral animal a week? Yes, I know that it’s a bit out of the pitch, and I’m...
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Australia pisses away the little water it has
Water, water nowhere, with little left to drink. — Australians are superlative natural resource wasters, but living in the driest inhabited continent on the planet, you’d think we’d be precious about...
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Last week we had the pleasure of welcoming the eminent sustainability scientist, Professor Andrew Balmford of the University of Cambridge, to our humble Ecology and Evolution Seminar Series here at...
View ArticleBeef is bad; Skippy is better
One for the ‘potential‘ list – George Wilson and Melanie Edwards of Australian Wildlife Services have just published a paper in the Early View section of Conservation Letters entitled Native wildlife...
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Following a previous post on ConservationBytes.com extolling the environmental virtues of eating more kangaroo and less beef (Beef is Bad; Skippy is Better), here’s an article from the Melbourne Age by...
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