Scientists tells us that as many as a million species are at risk of extinction. Amongst their number is a growing cohort of intensively managed species that limp along, year after year, with no clear prospect of recovery. Are we entering a new period of conservation characterised by extinction in slow motion, a hospice earth?

I worry a lot lately about water. It’s a categorical fact that Australia is the driest inhabited continent on the planet. It’s well known. We have a lot of droughts, and we have a lot of long droughts. We’re affected by the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), and we’re affected by the lesser known Interdecadal […]