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Feeling very privileged to have met Hugh Possingham and Karen Possingham last week. Thank you again for the Possingham Supplementary Scholarship, and for supporting me and my research 🦂🪲

🎉Congrats to Liz Reed 🦇🦴🦉🐀🐩 for her Images of L&T Comp win, run by the UofA Library. Check out her pic + also Frank Grutzner Adam Toomes & Lachlan McLeod's submissions. Visit adelaide.edu.au/library/librar… or L4 of the Hub til 13/11. Also People's Choice Award voting til midnight 12/11.

I'm super excited to share the first chapter from my PhD! We examined 14,000 online advertisements to discover which pet birds Australians are interested in, what traits make them popular, and how this relates to the risk of new invasive species 💻🦜🔍 rdcu.be/dtNsV

Police seize >130 #lizards🦎, 3 #snakes🐍, 8 #eggs🥚 in #Sydney home. Suspects charged & facing 15 yrs prison. They had previously #trafficked #reptiles to #HongKong, a major destination market for #exotic #animal trade. bbc.com/news/world-aus…

New #preprint led by Dr. Alice C Hughes and Ben Marshall looks into 22 years of #wildlife #trade in the US. When LEMIS data is combined with CITES records, the US imported over 29,445 species. With Carol Fukushima and many others researchsquare.com/article/rs-389… Laboratory for Integrative Biodiversity Research CE3C

The #EU is a global hub for #wildlife #trade. 12 researchers, inc. WildCRU's diogoverissimo.bsky.social, propose ways current #regulations could be improved to track all species, observe laws of species’ home countries & ensure sustainability of legal traffic. See: bit.ly/3TvrW0U

With growing enthusiasm in gardening to help wildlife, which simple features will help the most native species? After 5,795 wildlife surveys in 30 WA towns by 243 citizen scientists the results are in. 212 vertebrate native wildlife species used the gardens and only 4

📣 Save the date! The launch of the UN Office on Drugs & Crime World Wildlife Crime Report 2024 will be live streamed next week. 📺 Watch the livestream here: bit.ly/3yfT9fN 🗓️ Monday, 13 May 2024 🕑 13.00 CET See more info ⤵️

UN Crime Commission is meeting in Vienna. Join us for a deep dive into the benefits of the 3 existing #UNTOC Protocols - on trafficking in persons, smuggling of migrants & firearms trafficking - & what lessons they hold for potential new Protocols #endwildlifecrime ADM Capital Foundation

A chameleon, a viper and a poisonous toad are just a few animals that may sneak into Australia unless we stay vigilant, research finds Monash University theconversation.com/alien-invasion…

(1/13) 🧪 Exciting news! My 3rd PhD paper is hot out of the science oven! 🌟📚🌍We've developed a groundbreaking #tool for #forecasting potential invaders to prevent future #biologicalInvasions! 👽 READ ON School of Biological Sciences, Monash ChappleLab #InvasiveAlienSpecies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Proud to be presenting my research again at #biosym24 on the Australian invertebrate trade and its implications for biosecurity 🐌 Thank you to everyone who organised such a great event (and for choosing to host it on the sunny Gold Coast ☀️)

Pet fish in an aquarium? We want this 🤩 We love this 💙 We need this 👏 Pet fish in our rivers? Yeah, we don't need this 🙅‍♀️🚫 Follow the link to listen to my chat with ARRC about keeping pet fish where they belong! arrc.au/why-your-pet-f… #AquaticInvasiveSpecies

For an easier read, here's a wonderful article in The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand about our research into the international trade of Australian herps 🐍🦎 @InvasionEcology Adam Toomes Thomas Prowse Oliver Stringham theconversation.com/we-found-one-i…

A recent study by Uni of Adelaide's Dr. Phill Cassey & Sebastian Chekunov reveals that 16% of Australian reptile species & 3% of frog species are traded globally. Illegal smuggling persists despite a 1982 export ban. 🔍 Key Findings : tinyurl.com/2y59j3uh 📷Sebastian Chekunov

Thanks to ABC Australia & Erin Parke for highlighting the global trade of 🇦🇺 endemic reptiles & amphibians! bit.ly/3Ts22KL We found 33 species never recorded before in overseas markets - work led by Sebastian Chekunov with Oliver Stringham Thomas Prowse & @InvasionEcology

Australian reptiles worth tens of thousands being smuggled in socks and chocolate boxes 9news.com.au/national/anima…