Australis

Australia

Colin P. GROVES

My work has concerned mostly mammalian taxonomy (especially Primtes), but I have from time to time enjoyed fieldwork in habitat countries, studying primates or other mammals. Sadly, conservation has had to be an increasingly urgent theme in my work. Some of my other research has been in evolution, especially human evolution, and I have more and more felt it necessary to counter the anti-evolutionary nonsense put out by creationists - some of it simplistic and ill-informed, some of it actually malicious. It is necessary to combat this and other pseudosciences, not merely because it is wrong, but especially because, if taught in schools or widely promoted to the general public, it gives the impression that science is not a method of finding out, but a way to bolster up ones prejudices.

School of Archaeology & Anthropology, Building 14

Australian National University, Canberra,  ACT  0200, Australia

e-Mail: colin.groves(a)anu.edu.au

Phone: ++61 (2) 6125-4590, F ++61 (2) 6125-2711

New Zealand

Nigel DUNSTONE, member since the 1980s

My principal area of interest and expertise concerns the behaviour and ecology, status and conservation of mammals, in particular carnivores. I have a particular interest in the biodiversity and community ecology of mammals in a variety of threatened biomes: semi-arid regions - bushveldt of South Africa; (ii) temperate rainforests - Valdivian forest and coastal forests in southern Chile; (iii) tropical lowland rainforest (Peru, Sulawesi). Studies include investigation of the impact of ecotourism on the distribution and behaviour of mammals in the Manu National Park, Peru; mountain lion predation on cattle in Brazil; behaviour and ecology of sympatric felids in Patagonia.

Dept of Zoology, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56

Dunedin, New Zealand

e-Mail: nigel.dunstone(a)stonebow.otago.ac.nz