Eddie Game
Eddie is the Conservation Planning Specialist with The Nature Conservancy’s Conservation Methods and Tools Team. Based in Brisbane, Australia, he works across the organization, trying to improve approaches to spatial prioritization and promote good conservation decision making. Eddie received his PhD from the University of Queensland, under Professor Hugh Possingham, and has previously worked in fisheries and marine conservation. He has published on conservation planning, coral reef resilience, pelagic protected areas, dynamic decision making, evolution and mountain biking in Kyrgyzstan.
Posts by Eddie Game:
Do Global Conservation Initiatives Undermine Local Conservation Action?
Here’s an all-too-frequent out-of-office autoreply from conservationists these days:
I am currently away from the office attending a UNDP meeting. Following this I am participating in a CBD working group, an IUCN advisory committee, an NGO roundtable, then presenting at a Millennium Declaration follow-up, and attending a regional conservation forum convened by aid agencies as part [...]
Posted: November 19th, 2009 under Conservation Issues, Policy, Science.
Tags: CBD, conservation forum, conservation meeting, Eddie Game, global conservation, IUCN, local conservation, Millennium Declaration, UNDP
Comments: 1
Hitting the Target…But Missing the Point
Conservation is often a game of numbers.
Numerical goals, such as protecting 10% of all habitat types, often form the backbone of both international and national conservation policy.
Within The Nature Conservancy, numbers like these appear in our 2015 goal (to effectively conserve 10 percent of every major habitat type on Earth by the year 2015). At [...]
Posted: August 19th, 2009 under Conservation Issues, Habitats, Policy, Science, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: Australia, Carawardine, CBD, conservation goal, Conservation Letters, conservation planning, conservation policy, conservation science, conservation targets, ecoregional assessment, Eddie Game, habitat conversion, major habitat types, science communication, The Nature Conservancy
Comments: 3
The Most Neglected Habitat
Few conservation products are as globally recognized as the Red List of Threatened Species, produced by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The contents of the “Red List” are routinely used to help guide the conservation work of governments, NGOs and scientific institutions.
So it was with mixed enthusiasm that I read the IUCN’s [...]
Posted: July 22nd, 2009 under Animals, Asia Pacific, Birds, Conservation Issues, Fish, Habitats, Oceans & Coasts, Protected Areas, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: Eddie Game, IUCN, IUCN Red List, Marine Protected Areas, MPA, ocean conservation, pelagic habitat, pelagic ocean, ray conservation, rays, Savu Sea, shark conservation, sharks, silvertip shark image, turtle conservation, whale conservation
Comments: 1
Human Adaptation Is the Key to Conservation in a Changing Climate
It seems everyone is writing about climate change.
But there’s one report that not many conservation biologists are talking about — and they should be.
The Global Humanitarian Forum (GHF), a think-tank lead by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, recently released a report on the human impacts of climate change.
The terrifying touchstones of human impacts by [...]
Posted: July 6th, 2009 under Asia Pacific, Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Conservation Issues, Coral Reefs, Oceans & Coasts, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: Climate Change, climate change adaptation, displacement, food security, Global Humanitarian Forum, human impacts of climate change, Kofi Annan, Melanasia, Micronesia, poverty, sea level rise, un
Comments: 2
