Martine Maron

Biodiversity Credits: An Overview of the Current State, Future Opportunities, and Potential Pitfalls Biodiversity credits are an emerging vehicle for pro-environmental financing, yet much uncertainty remains around how and when they could boost biodiversity conservation. Here we define what biodiver...

A few weeks late, but very pleased to share this new piece on biodiversity credits, led by Sven Wunder and Sophus zu Ermgassen: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A group of conference attendees (from the Maron Lab) with a fig tree in the background

We had a brilliant week at #ICCB2025. Congrats to @yfchung.bsky.social for making the shortlist for best student talk! And thanks to the superb organising committee and all the volunteers 🙏 Loved catching up with so many wonderful colleagues; safe travels home to all

A group of birders watching a rail

Birders viewing a pitta

Outrageous views of noisy pitta and buff-banded rails at the #ICCB2025 conference bird walk this morning - thanks @coorongdan.bsky.social for your excellent co-guiding!

@martinemaron.bsky.social squeezing How To Fix Offsets (paraphrasing) into 3 minutes. Exceptionally I might add. Key message for me was applying absolute, rather than net gain, the latter inevitably leading to more loss. Standing room only I might add! #ICCB2025 @iccb2025.bsky.social

Queensland's last carbon neutral council to lose title after leaving federal program Queensland's only certified carbon neutral council will lose that title as it prepares to pull out of a federal government scheme it has concerns with.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

Farmers wanting to sell tiny dragons' last known holdout left in limbo The home of the only wild population of Victorian grassland earless dragons is no longer viable as a private farm, but governments are unwilling to buy the land for conservation.

www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Do private land conservation policies and programs adequately consider climate change? Accelerating climate change is threatening both biodiversity and the effectiveness of conservation policy. Policy mechanisms like voluntary conservati…

First publication from my PhD is out!
Do private land conservation policies and programs adequately consider climate change?🌿🌡️

Read: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Huge thanks to my advisors Jonathan Rhodes,
@martinemaron.bsky.social, and Michael Drielsma, and to amazing funding partners

The fight for Woogaroo Forest: new housing could silence some of Queensland’s ‘virtuoso songbirds’

Join me at UNSW Canberra School of Business! We're looking for a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in #Economics to deliver undergraduate and postgraduate economics teaching and research #academicjobs #academicsky external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

All so horribly familiar from Australia—the laboratory for corporate-friendly environmental policies

"At present, builders are supposed to follow a “mitigation hierarchy”: avoid, minimise, mitigate, offset.
...
The new bill scratches all that, jumping straight to option 4: offsetting."

When do forests and woodlands become valuable habitat?

New research shows some threatened species can start rebuilding their homes in forests that are as young as 3 years old. While some need trees that are much older with hollows. Threatened species need old growth, but they need regrowth too.

Allowing forests to regrow and regenerate is a great way to restore habitat New research found regrowth in Queensland provided valuable habitat after 15 years, on average, with some species benefiting from trees as young as 3 years of age.

Allowing forests to regrow and regenerate is a great way to restore habitat - new research from Hannah Thomas estimates the habitat values of regrowth for threatened species in Qld theconversation.com/allowing-for...

Don't forget to apply for this PhD in lovely Aotearoa! Closes 30th April

YouTube video by Guardian Australia Last chance: the extinction crisis this election is ignoring

Guardian Australia has launched a series about nature and threatened species. It's called Last Chance: The extinction crisis the Australian federal election is ignoring. Includes videos, news and comment pieces.

Here's a preview of what it's about:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4kQ...

A new series our climate and environment team has been working on about nature and the extinction crisis launches today. We’ve got more videos, news, and analysis coming over the next week

Australia is in an extinction crisis – why isn’t it an issue at this election? Some of the country’s most loved native species, including the koala and the hairy-nosed wombat, are on the brink. Is this their last chance at survival?

Why isn't nature an issue this federal election? Simple really - because both major parties are totally captured by and beholden to polluting industries, notably fossil gas and farmed salmon. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

We welcome today's policy commitment to allocate 1% of the federal budget to nature care by
@greens.org.au It's what Australian nature needs. See what some of our experts had to say about the commitments.
biodiversitycouncil.org.au/news/biodive...

Conceptual model explaining the mitigation hierarchy in biodiversity offset design.

March issue: Review led by
@martinemaron.bsky.social evaluating the efficacy of biodiversity offsets and, despite their limitations, the role they can play in conservation.
Web link: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Free to read and download throughout 2025!

Palm Cockatoo Project | People For Wildlife People For Wildlife are working to save the Palm Cockatoo bird in Apudthama Cape York.

Thanks, @euanritchie.bsky.social & @martinemaron.bsky.social and John for this powerful article & msg to our leaders. Pleased the #PalmCockatooProject could provide the lead image. This tree sadly burned to ash. 1 of many b/c of bad fire. To help palmies: www.peopleforwildlife.org/theapudthama...

Australians want nature protected. These 3 environmental problems should be top of the next government’s to-do list Three experts consider what’s required to protect and conserve Australia’s natural wonders, from fighting invaders to stopping habitat loss and saving species.

Australia’s wildlife and environments are world renowned, but in deep, deep trouble. What’s urgently needed, and entirely possible, to begin turning things around? In the lead up to the federal election we discuss what Australia’s next government can and must do theconversation.com/australians-....

Australians want nature protected. These 3 environmental problems should be top of the next government’s to-do list Three experts consider what’s required to protect and conserve Australia’s natural wonders, from fighting invaders to stopping habitat loss and saving species.

New by @euanritchie.bsky.social John Woinarski and me: Australians want nature protected. These 3 environmental problems should be top of the next government’s to-do list theconversation.com/australians-...

Looking for a PhD in birds and woodlands? We have a funded project available to those eligible to apply as a domestic student (in Australia) @uq-cbcs.bsky.social - message me if interested!

PhD project on bird conservation at UQ with @martinemaron.bsky.social and April Reside. Student needed asap in 2025

Biodiversity offsets, their effectiveness and their role in a nature positive future - Nature Reviews Biodiversity Biodiversity offsets, applied as part of the mitigation hierarchy, aim to ensure that ‘no net loss’ of biodiversity occurs as a result of human development projects and activities. This Review explore...

New Review: Biodiversity offsets, their effectiveness and their role in a nature positive future 🌎🧪

From @martinemaron.bsky.social and colleagues.

Web: go.nature.com/41jFsar Free online for the year!

How birdwatching is taking flight as Australia's new tourism goldmine Birdwatchers are pouring billions of dollars into Australia's tourism industry every year with calls to capitalise on the country's native species and better promote the pastime.

Birding is booming in Australia @birdlifeoz.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

Australian nature: if our laws don’t radically change, environmental degradation will continue

Biodiversity Council 2024 Impact Report | Biodiversity Council Australia We are excited to share with you a snapshot of some of the incredible impacts we have achieved in 2024.

2024 has been an enormous year for our small but mighty team. Learn about our incredible 2024 impacts here: biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/bi...

It would not have been possible without our supporters. Thank you for helping us to be loud for nature!

It's time we change the narrative around Australia's mistletoe! After all, it's possibly the coolest plant in our landscape 😎

That's why we want to plant more of it! Check out our mistletoe propagation manual, developed with Mindaribba Local Aboriginal Land Council: www.calameo.com/read/0041078...

Government extends coal mines as minister boasts of no new approvals Minutes after officially recommending a "greenfield" coal mine be approved in Queensland, and approving extensions to three others, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek boldly declared no new coal min...

Minutes after officially recommending a "greenfield" coal mine be approved in Queensland, and approving extensions to three others, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek boldly declared no new coal mines have been approved in 2024.

The cognitive dissonance is strong in this one...

Albanese government approves FOUR coalmine extensions; Melbourne expected to hit 40C on Boxing Day www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...