News Articles
- ABC News (2024) Cutting-edge technology is being deployed to stop the illegal trafficking of Australian wildlife [by Tom Hartley]
- CITES (2024) Wildlife forensics success stories and developments
- Lafeber (2024) Global Parrot Conservation Spotlight: New Parrot DNA Database to Track Illegal Trading – PDF
- ABC News (2024) Canberra scientists using DNA to fight trafficked parrot trade [by Kate Midena & Alice Matthews] – PDF
- ANU Reporter (2024) Free as a bird: how forensic genomics is helping to stop wildlife trafficking [by Tabitha Carvan] – PDF
- Voz de America (2024) Una base de datos de ADN ayudará a luchar contra el tráfico ilegal de vida silvestre – PDF
- SCIMEX (2024) Breaking the chains: dismantling the illegal parrot trade – PDF
- The Canberra Times (2024) Aussie scientists taking down the international illegal parrot trade [by Emily Anderson] – PDF
- 444.hu (2022) Világszerte veszélyben vannak a papagájok / The worldwide decline of parrots [by Bence Horváth] – PDF magyarul | PDF in English
- Mongabay (2021) CSI, but for parrots: Study applies criminological tool CRAAVED to wildlife trade [by Grace Dungey and Nick Rodway] – PDF
- The Australian National University (2021) Parrot poachers striking while the market’s hot – PDF
- Mongabay (2021) Current protected areas not enough to save parrots from extinction: Study [by Liz Kimbrough] – PDF
- SDP Noticias (2021) Los loros están al borde de la extinción, advierten [by Fabián Vázquez] – PDF
- ZME Science (2021) Parrots are facing extinction, and only policymakers can save them [by Alexandru Micu] – PDF
- ANU Reporter (2021) Parrots pushed to extinction, despite protection policies – PDF
- Mongabay (2016) Exceptional beauty, exceptional risk: New study reveals extinction dangers for parrots [by Meghan Gilbert] – PDF
Scientific Papers
- Nandika D*, Agustina D*, Heinsohn R, Olah G (2021)
Wildlife trade influencing natural parrot populations on a biodiverse Indonesian island.
Diversity 13(10):483. doi:10.3390/d13100483
Full-text | PDF - Pires SF*, Olah G*, Nandika D, Agustina D, Heinsohn R (2021)
What drives the illegal parrot trade? Applying a criminological model to market and seizure data in Indonesia.
Biological Conservation 257:109098. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109098
PDF | Supplementary | Video abstract doi:10.5446/53593 - Olah G, Smith BT, Joseph L, Banks SC, Heinsohn R (2021)
[Review] Advancing genetic methods in the study of parrot biology and conservation.
Diversity 13(11):521. doi:10.3390/d13110521
Invited to the special issue “Ecology and Conservation of Parrots in Their Native and Non-Native Ranges”.
Full-text | PDF - Vergara-Tabares D, Cordier J, Landi M, Olah G, Nori J (2020)
Global trends of habitat destruction and consequences for parrot conservation.
Global Change Biology 26(8):4251–4262. doi:10.1111/gcb.15135
Full-text | PDF | Supplementary | Press release | Media coverage - Olah G, Theuerkauf J, Legault A, Gula R, Stein J, Butchart S, O’Brien M, Heinsohn R (2018)
Parrots of Oceania – A comparative study of extinction risk.
Emu – Austral Ornithology 118(1):94–112. doi:10.1080/01584197.2017.1410066
Invited paper for the special issue on parrots. The publisher identified this paper as the most ‘talked about’ article in terms of altmetrics, in April 2018.
PDF | Video abstract doi:10.5446/48649 - Olah G, Butchart SHM, Symes A, Guzmán IM, Cunningham R, Brightsmith DJ, Heinsohn R (2016)
Ecological and socio-economic factors affecting extinction risk in parrots.
Biodiversity and Conservation 25(2):205–223. doi:10.1007/s10531-015-1036-z
Top 1% cited paper in the field of Environment/Ecology.
Full-text | PDF | Supplementary 1 | Supplementary 2 | Video abstract doi:10.5446/47153
* shared first-authorship
Videos
Radio
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio Sydney | Nightlife | Host: Dom Knight | 28 Apr 2024
The illegal parrot trade
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio Illawarra | Illawarra Mornings | Host: Nick Rheinberger | 23 Apr 2024
Breaking the chains: dismantling the illegal parrot trade using DNA
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio Canberra | Canberra Afternoons | Host: Alice Matthews | 22 Apr 2024
Canberra scientists using DNA to fight trafficked parrot trade | PDF
“Like CSI, but for parrots”: Using DNA databases to save trafficked birds | PDF