Tomorrow David M Watson presents the UQ Centre for Biodiversity & Conservation Science seminar - on new insights into mistletoes! See you there, Goddard 501, 11am

UQ Centre for Biodiversity & Conservation Science own Daniel Dunn presents tomorrow's Tuesday seminar - on conserving the "other" half of the planet, areas beyond national jurisdiction. Join us at 11am, Goddard 501

Join us tomorrow for the first UQ Centre for Biodiversity & Conservation Science Tuesday seminar by Zoom, delivered by the newest member of CBCS, Dr Matthew Luskin: Ecological cascades in Asian rainforests: Opportunities to collaborate. 10:30 morning tea, 11am seminar.

Join us at tomorrow's CBCS Tuesday Zoom seminar by @ElisaBayra on the world's first Threatened Mammal Index - and a chance to wish her well before she takes up an exciting new role at Griffith University - morning tea 10:30am, seminar 11am

Presenter of today's UQ Centre for Biodiversity & Conservation Science Zoom seminar is QUT PhD candidate Karlina Indraswari - on characterising Indonesia's wild bird trade network from media-reported seizure incidents. Morning tea 10:30, seminar 11am.

Today’s CBCS Zoom seminar will be presented by our own post-doc Peter Baxter! Tune in at 11 am to find more about the national database of #threatened species on Australian islands.

Presenter of tomorrow's UQ Centre for Biodiversity & Conservation Science seminar is CBCS Professor Noam Levin, on "World Heritage in danger: Bid data and remote sensing can help protect sites in conflict zones". Morning tea 10:30am, seminar 11am.

To reduce impacts of invasive common myna on native birds target mynas nesting in tree hollows rather than trapping juveniles, which is ineffective. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Important management point from Andrew Rogers & KARK Group in Journal of Applied Ecology #invasiveSpecies

We led a webinar for Earth Day (with the GBRMPA Chief Scientist Dr David Wachenfeld and Prof Maoz Fine) on coral reefs and climate change with focus on the GBR and the Red Sea, if you are interested in watching, this is the link to the webinar: youtube.com/watch?v=i2J7pB…

My sister and her colleagues review how the emergence of the zoonotic SARS-COV-2 is driven by humans; how the pandemic may promote emergence of other zoonoses & how decision makers need to consider biodiversity and the ecosystem in response thelancet.com/journals/lanpl… TheLancetPlanet

#UQ scientists have investigated the links between the COVID-19 pandemic and the deterioration of the world’s ecosystems, discovering feedback loops that suggest a potential increase in future pandemics: bit.ly/3nmjyk9 🌳😷 UQ News KARK Group Salit Kark @odkaella

Ecological destruction 🔁 zoonotic disease emergence. Superbly led overview by @odkaella highlighting need to prioritise responses to #biodiversityloss & improve #ecosystemhealth to minimise future #zoonoticdisease outbreaks, out now. doi.org/10.1016/S2542-…

Protect nature to avoid future pandemics @uq_news phys.org/news/2021-11-n…

🌳 UQ News says we need to protect nature to avoid future pandemics 🌏They looked at links between the pandemic and the deterioration of the ecosystem and biodiversity, discovering feedback loops suggesting a potential increase in future pandemics scimex.org/newsfeed/prote…

Salit and Odette delivered an invited plenary talk to a large audience of faculty members and Master's students in St Xavier's College in Nepal.

Check out a new article about collaboration and island biodiversity conservation by Salit Kark, Andrew Rogers, and Dorian Moro: Towards a national platform for Australia’s islands publish.csiro.au/pc/PC21062

Warm greetings to Junior karkgroup.org for first PhD paper in Trends in Ecology & Evolution. The paper discusses Backyard Conservation in traditionally owned lands and presents a case study from Junior’s community on Bougainville. Novera&Kark authors.elsevier.com/a/1fnJ8cZ3WuSnU

Not a bad place to be doing fieldwork! Hunting for #craneflies in one of Norfolk Island's coastal wetlands. Craneflies are one of many poorly known groups of insects on Norfolk Island. I'm hoping to change that during the course of my research!