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Wednesday 19 October 2016
The Zoologist Who Cried Climate Change
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Why did the mammoth go extinct? Why are there no longer lions in Europe? Why is the largest predator in Australia a smallish dog? There is a...
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Monday 20 June 2016
Where did the wild horse go?
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Tarpan. Isn't it an evocative word? It brings to mind images of wild horses, untamed by man, of fierce stallions and galloping herds. Wh...
Wednesday 1 June 2016
Accepting The Consequences
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We - or most of us at least - live in cultivated, domestic landscapes. The places in which we live are molded and shaped by human action, an...
Thursday 14 January 2016
Rebuilding Australia: How reintroductions and introduced species could help save a continent's wildlife
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I am not from Australia, so I have no doubts that whatever I say will be dismissed by at least some people as just the ramblings of an uninf...
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Saturday 9 January 2016
Remembering the past, Letting go of the present, Embracing the future
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We don't like change. That is understandable, from an evolutionary perspective whatever situation we are currently in is obviously one t...
Friday 18 December 2015
A thought experiment in the Highlands
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Much ink has been spilled over the merits and flaws of rewilding. It is a concept which I have come out in support of multiple times before,...
Friday 27 November 2015
Elephants Of Antiquity
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Elephants, members of the group proboscidea, are beloved by everyone; they are big, charismatic, and essential keystone species throughout t...
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