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Apathy towards poachers widespread in world’s marine protected areas
Wed, 15 Aug 2018
A new study has found that nearly half of fishers from seven countries had witnessed someone poaching in marine protected areas in the past year and most of them did nothing about it.

JCU takes new direction in data science with SAS
Tue, 31 Jul 2018
In an Australian first, James Cook University is now offering fully-online training as a data scientist – a profession for which demand has exploded in the past five years.

Natural repellent to combat insect-borne diseases in the Tropics
Wed, 25 Jul 2018
James Cook University researchers have helped develop a technique to produce a potent mosquito repellent from essential oils.

Eradicate rats to bolster coral reefs
Thu, 12 Jul 2018
Rat control should be considered an urgent conservation priority on many remote tropical islands to protect vulnerable coral reefs, according to an international team of scientists.

Piscatory paradox: frigid polar oceans, not balmy coral reefs, are species-formation hot spots for marine fishes
Thu, 5 Jul 2018
Tropical oceans teem with the dazzle and flash of colourful reef fishes, and contain far more species than the cold ocean waters found at high latitudes. This “latitudinal diversity gradient” is one of the most famous patterns in biology, and scientists have puzzled over its causes for more than 200 years.

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