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9 landbird species and 1 seabird gone #extinct on #worldheritage #LordHowe since humans arrived in 1788. KARK Group & I talking & learning about island #conservation, management priorities & #threatenedspecies at our TSR Hub workshop with managers, researchers & community

Throwback to the Island Arks symposium in Rottnest Island, West Australia in Feb this year.

Our letter “Collaboration across boundaries in the Amazon” was published today in @sciencemagazine #AmazonFires

New #Science Letter: A recent collaborative paper discussing how cross-boundary collaboration and the #Leticia_Pact can help address the #Amazon #fires and their vast impacts on both humans and nature: Collaboration across boundaries in the Amazon science.sciencemag.org/content/366/64…

"As thousands of wildfires and deforestation escalate in the Amazon rainforest, a team of international scientists has called for governments to enact six key goals to protect the vital wilderness." Jean Paul Metzger 🚴🏻‍♂️ Micheli Costa KARK Group uq.edu.au/news/article/2…

Scientists suggest binding goals to rescue the Amazon. UQ Science KARK Group Salit Kark tinyurl.com/qs4uqs8

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.

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!