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Pragmatic news & views on biodiversity conservation. A refuge from trendy buzzwords, mindless optimism, people telling us to smile, and neocolonial mindsets in the conservation world. Informed perspectives grounded in reality, for informed and real solutions.

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TS Whitty
May 27, 2021

Looking through a window at a ramshackle dock and the sea with small outrigger fishing boats and big bamboo fishing structures scattered around

Global Conservation & My Disregarded To-Do Lists

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TS Whitty
May 21, 2021

Two young researchers holding binoculars and sitting in the bow of a boat, scanning the sea for dolphins and porpoises

Obstacle, opportunity, outcome: Unpaid internships and inequity in marine mammal conservation careers

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TS Whitty
May 12, 2021

Two intrepid researchers walking through a small fishing village, with thatch huts and wooden fencing, in a torrential downpour.

Why we need conservation realism

The rationale behind the Conservation Realist series

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