Paul Harvey

About

Dr Paul Harvey is an award-winning environmental scientist and science communicator. He has a PhD in environmental chemistry. Paul has over 15 years of experience translating complex science for global audiences as a media expert, journalist, podcaster, and author. Paul has shared the airwaves with Dr Jane Goodall OBE on the acclaimed Burundi to Gombe Podcast series, and is the bestselling author of The Plasticology Project, Today I Planted a Tree, and Why Dogs Are Called Dogs. Paul has bylines in The Courier Mail, The Australian and The Daily Telegraph. His scientific research has appeared on BBC, ABC Australia, The New York Times, The New Scientist, and Al Jazeera English News. Paul is based in Australia.

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This elusive animal hunts in the dim light of dawn and dusk, making it difficult to observe and hard to count. One of the few ways to survey them is by laying nets, pictured here.

An Australian icon, the platypus is struggling — and scientists still lack answers

Paul Harvey 20 May 2026

News and Inspiration from Nature's Frontline.

Collage, Fritz Pinnow, contributor, and a soldier

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Tanjung Priok Customs officers inspect pangolin scales intended to be smuggled to Cambodia. Image courtesy of Tanjung Priok Customs.

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The first wildlife bridge in Brazil is connecting habitat across the coastal four-lane BR-101 highway.

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