Jeremy S. Simmonds

TL;DR: An assessment of the habitat of native vertebrate species burnt by the 2019–2020 Australian mega-fires shows that 70 taxa were severely affected, and 21 of these were already listed as threatened with extinction.

TL;DR: The next generation of scientists and decision-makers will have to think differently about how to protect nature and set ambitious targets for the retention of biodiversity and ecosystem services.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new framework for compensating for biodiversity losses from development in a way that is aligned explicitly with jurisdictional biodiversity targets is proposed, where targets for particular biodiversity features are achieved via one of three pathways: Net Gain, No Net Loss, or (rarely) Managed Net Loss.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantified the loss of potential habitat and communities since the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act came into force in 2000, and found that over 7.7 million ha of potential habitats and communities were cleared in the period 2000-2017.

TL;DR: Here, Sonter and colleagues apply spatial simulation models to case studies in Australia, Brazil, Indonesia, and Mozambique to show that compensation alone is not sufficient to preserve biodiversity.