Professor of Evolutionary Ecology, Massey University
I was born in India, had a childhood in Africa and England and completed education in UK with a BSc honours in Ecology, before working as a freelance ecologist. I came to New Zealand in 1990, thoroughly disheartened by Margaret Thatcher's Britain and subsequently completed my PhD on evolutionary ecology. I am a long time 'anxietist' and activist on matters of the natural environmental and humanities place in it. I cycle where I can, avoid international travel and plant trees, when not teaching and researching across a very wide range of ecological and evolutionary topics. I have co-worked and co-parented with my wife raising two surprisingly smart and well adjusted children, or so it seems to me.
NZ is home to species found nowhere else but biodiversity losses match global crisis
Dec 04, 2018 16:25 pm UTC| Nature
The recently released 2018 Living Planet report is among the most comprehensive global analyses of biodiversity yet. It is based on published data on 4,000 out of the 70,000 known species of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles...
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