This is a terrific book for all interested in wildlife and ecology. Do have a look--and buy it!

Fascinating insights into Sabah's conservation journey! Glyn Davies, your passion and expertise shine through in this video. Your work has undoubtedly made a tremendous difference in protecting Sabah's incredible wildlife. Thank you for sharing such valuable knowledge with us.

Here is a very cool followup to this lecture, talking about reef restoration kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6azfKKjobp9n9Esi=dnjlVHaR8nUSRviF

Dear Sebastian: this is amazing research, i remember learning about the erosional nature of atolls in school and to find out we had it backwards is amazing and the idea of the resilience of these systems is fascinating. The description of the tidal pump illustrates so much for me about why reefs are such thriving populous ecosystems. All sorts of stuff, you fired my imagination today, thank you!

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I agree with Allan.

Extinction rates (1500-2009) peaked around 1900 at 50 per decade. Extinction rates have declined dramatically to around 4 to per decade in the 2000s. So the extinction rate is very low: 900 known lost species for 2.1 million known species in 500 years (IUCN), so from observations there are an average of slightly less than 2 species lost every year. Out of a known species total of over 2 million. That gives an annual percentage loss of less than 0.0001%. That's background extinction. At that frequency it will take over 930,000 years to reach 80% extinction of species experienced at the K-T boundary that saw the extinction of the dinosaurs. Of course, extinction is a natural part of the evolution of life on this planet with the average lifespan of a species thought to be about 1 million years (cf 930,000). It is estimated that 99.9% of all plant and animal species that have existed have gone extinct. It should also be noted that no taxonomic families have become extinct in the last 500 years. In fact marine diversity at the taxonomic level of families is the highest it has ever been in the Earth's long history (see Sepkoski Curve). In a review of 16,009 species, most populations (85%) did not show significant trends in abundance, and those that did were balanced between winners (8%) and losers (7%) (Dornelas et al, 2019). There have been only 9 species of continental birds and mammals confirmed extinct since 1500 (Loehle, 2011). No global marine animals have become extinct in the past 50 years (McCauley et, 2015 using IUCN data).

Rewilding is a no brainer,it works and brings back live to the countryside.

Very interesting! Thanks a lot!

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Guy, I need an expert in temperate rainforest restoration. I have a piece of woodland in Wiltshire that I am restoring. One part of it is very wet with moss, lichen and polypod on the branches. I am about to clear a large amount of rhodis from that area but I do not want to upset the micro climate. Do you know someone that could guide me?

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None of the speakers mentioned the importance of food production and security. Quite an omission.

bro get a mic

I would think that Sound quality was less of a great global challenge. Time to invest in a small mic.

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Thanks for posting great talk

Thanks for posting great talk