Research

Indonesian protected areas sit in remote places that would have escaped clearing anyway. Controlling for that with matched sampling, they prevented the loss of 3.5% of protected mangroves — and the strictest reserves prevented nothing. (40 min read)

Porpoises were slightly more likely to be seen in deeper water off Point Lynas. With 66 data points collected by successive years of students in whatever weather April gave them, the relationship did not reach significance. (11 min read)

A hatchery design for a species that is neither a crustacean nor a mollusc, scaled against a real number: the 89,000 adult horseshoe crabs harvested from Long Island Sound in a single year. (27 min read)