One way to protect our ecosystems is to confer legal rights on them. This idea is at the heart of the ‘rights of nature’ movement – but Australia has few examples of this principle in action.
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Each year insect scientists like us field questions from the press and public about Christmas beetle populations: where have they gone?
What happens when wild native bush rats meet cockroaches they’ve never seen before?
Fascination with shiny technological gadgets may divert scarce resources from the on-the-ground approaches we need to restore degraded ecosystems around the world.
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer Geography, CQUniversity Australia
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Koala Ecologist, CQUniversity Australia
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CSIRO
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Research Scientist, Environment, CSIRO
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Senior Lecturer in ecological restoration, Curtin University
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Catedrático de Ecología, Universidad de Granada
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Professor of Conservation Biology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
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PhD candidate, University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, UNSW
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Adjunct Associate Professor in Zoology, UNSW
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Associate Professor in Entomology, University of Sydney
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Lecturer: Law, CQUniversity Australia