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Jacob Maher: Weeds, The Dark Web, and The Not-So-Sexy Side of Mistletoe


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Jacob and Shelly get down to the nitty gritty of weeds.

What's being sold on the dark web? Is your local nursery better than Bunnings? And what's mistletoe got to do with poo?

Sources

  • Maher, J., et el, 2023. Weed wide web: characterising illegal online trade of invasive plants in Australia. NeoBiota, https://neobiota.pensoft.net/article/104472/
  • Stringham, O.C., et al, 2023. The dark web trades wildlife, but mostly for use as drugs. People and Nature, https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pan3.10469
  • https://theconversation.com/the-buffel-kerfuffle-how-one-species-quietly-destroys-native-wildlife-and-cultural-sites-in-arid-australia-149456
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-maher-ec0l0gy/?originalSubdomain=au
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