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Dr Damien Fordham workshop at The International Union for Conservation of Nature (ICCN)

Posted on October 5, 2018 by Annemarie Gaskin

ARC Future Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the University of Adelaide, Dr Damien Fordham will be presenting a workshop to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in at Copenhagen, 8th-10th of October 2018. The IUCN is a membership Union uniquely composed of both government and civil society organisations. It provides public, private and non-governmental […]

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Hundreds of threatened species not on official US list

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Corri Baker

New research from the University of Adelaide has shown that many of the animal species at risk of extinction in the United States have not made it onto the ­­country’s official Endangered Species Act (ESA) list. The ESA is one of the best known national lists and arguably the world’s most effective biodiversity protection law. […]

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A new measure for species extinction threat.

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Corri Baker

A new index has been developed to help conservationists better understand how close species are to extinction. The index, developed by a team of Australian researchers from the University of Adelaide and James Cook University, is called SAFE (Species Ability to Forestall Extinction). The SAFE index builds on previous studies into the minimum population sizes […]

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