Monthly Archives: May 2014

By Ishbel Cullen In April this year I joined staff from the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage on a site visit to a wind farm biodiversity offset site for Native Temperate Grassland on the Monaro plains in the Southern … Continue reading →

I’ve just read—and marked—every blog posted by the 2014 class studying Biodiversity Conservation at The Australian National University. Usually the prospect of marking 60+ papers has lecturers and tutors looking for an excuse to do something else, or at least … Continue reading →

Secretly terrified, thinking the likelihood of being eaten alive by a bunch of bats was definitely in the ball park of 11/10, I had arranged to go bat monitoring with Doug Mills at Bungonia National Park, NSW. Doug works for … Continue reading →

  ‘You can have native birds or Indian Mynas – but not both.’                                                                                                 – Ian Fraser   In early 2014 I had the pleasure of working with the Canberra Indian Myna Action Group (CIMAG) and its well … Continue reading →

Since my first exposure to ice landscapes, I have been completely captivated. Their sheer enormity seems to extend beyond horizons and through time itself. The source of this fascination eludes me and sometimes I wonder why I have come to … Continue reading →

The UN program Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation known as REDD and its complementary program REDD+. Aim to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by protecting forest. This is avoiding lost habitat, which is a direct effect on biodiversity … Continue reading →

Hoh xil nature reserve is one of the original ecological environment preservations in the world, also is one of the last place of primitive states of nature. Human being can’t live for a long time here, but it is a … Continue reading →

During the first two days of April this year, I was involved in a volunteer work at Scottsdale Reserve, at 75km south of Canberra. Historically, the area suffered a lot with invasive species, over-grazing and altered fire regimes. One might … Continue reading →

    Why is Sanjiangyuan region so important?   The Sanjiangyuan (literally three rivers’ headwaters) region is located on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. As the name itself suggests, it is where the three headwaters of Mekong, Yangtze and Yellow Rivers emerge. … Continue reading →

Palm trees, blue lagoons, the sunset, a gentle breeze with a sense of ocean and girls in bikini… There are countless elements about the attraction of tropical islands we can talk about, but the most beautiful feature I encountered in … Continue reading →