I’ve closely followed the story of the Madagascar Pochard since its rediscovery in 2006. This duck must get the prize for the most elusive species; evading scientists, considered extinct, but in fact clinging on to survival for decades and then saved on the brink of extinction.
Four years have passed since I returned from my first overseas expedition to Madagascar. 6 months previous, I had just left school and started my first full time job to […]
“The ants are in turn dwarfed by the beetles. Erwin estimated that over 18,000 species occur in 1 hectare of Panamanian rain forest, with most previously unknown to science – […]
Calling their flight graceful would be inaccurate, but slowly bobbing through the humid understory, there was something transfixing about their movement, their body bouncing out-of-sync with their brightly coloured wing […]
Pollination is an important ecosystem service at risk. Habitat loss and agricultural intensification are the main threats to pollinators in Europe and America. This ‘pollinator crisis’ is being driven by […]
After explaining what I have been getting up to over the last few years, people will often ask me “why dragonflies?”. In all honesty, I love hearing this question because […]
Macroecology is the study of large-scale patterns and processes in biodiversity around the globe. One of the key aims in macroecology is to explain the processes that give rise to […]
The Sunday Species 10th June 2012 Latin Name: Otocolobus manul Common Name: Pallas’s Cat Location: Central Asia Steppe Grasslands IUCN Red List Status: Near Threatened This is a beautiful small […]
Having worked in outdoor retail and lived in the field I have picked up a few nuggets of information along the way. So here they are, assembled in my top […]
The Dhofar mountain range is a unique tropical pocket on the southern coast of Oman. Here the Indian monsoon causes dense mist and fog to cloak the southern slopes for […]
Lawrence Ball │ Conservation Science 