Sarah A. Bekessy

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the extent of the distribution of threatened species across all Australian cities, and investigated the currently under-utilized opportunity that cities present for national biodiversity conservation by assessing the extent to which they overlapped with 99 cities (of more than 10,000 people), with all non-urban areas, and with simulated 'dummy' cities which covered the same area and bioregion as the true cities but were not urban.

TL;DR: A global synthesis of the relationship between the conservation value of habitat patches and their size and isolation, based on 31 systematic conservation planning studies across four continents found that small, isolated patches are inordinately important for biodiversity conservation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate the use of new conservation planning tools to better integrate information on threatened species into landuse planning and demonstrate how the prioritisation can be used to identify areas of conservation significance within individual developments that account for the wider landscape context.

TL;DR: It is argued that there are many risks associated with the unscrutinized expansion of offset policy, so working rapidly to clarify and-where possible-to resolve these issues is essential.

TL;DR: A meeting between researchers, policy-makers and managers convened to identify practical solutions to improve engagement between these camps was reported on, and it was identified secondments, sabbaticals, fellowships and ‘buddies’ as forums that can catalyse new relationships between researchers and policy-maker.