I’ve been back from Colombia a week now and there’s nothing like a week of English rain and chill to spark up a reflective mood. So on the day I head to Oman to join a cool project tracking the distribution of rare and endemic plants (more on that soon) […]
To stand a chance, conservation has to back interventions that can go big
Disrupting catastrophic wildlife declines won’t be easy. But by focusing conservation interventions on a small set of disproportionately important places and projects, we can still leverage our way out of the sixth mass extinction. This is exactly why conservationists have long preoccupied over “biodiversity hotspots”–35 areas that jointly cover just […]
We have to design systems that will incentivise pro-environmental decision-making. It’s not enough to rely on individual choices. Individuals are busy. Individuals have kids, careers and favourite TV programmes. And individuals are constrained by the inefficient and wasteful industrial systems through which they can meet their daily needs. Much easier […]