A vertebrate person in an invertebrate court

Abstract

There are some benefits to lying in hospital recovering from neurosurgery. Not many, but some. One is all the time you have to think. A few years ago, while I was on my back recuperating, it occurred to me that there had never been a conference in Australia on the conservation of invertebrates. True, there were many conferences proclaiming to be on conservation generally, but these nearly always turned into celebrations of vertebrates and flowering plants.