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Monthly Archives: May 2014
The Art of Farming Ecologically – Maddara
Liam Bergin – u5177163 From Productivity to Sustainability The Green Revolution incorporated a wave of funding to increase the use of technology available to stimulate productivity. Productivity became the central focus due to a high demand for produce – … Continue reading
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The extinction under my shoes
As a student of the Biodiversity Conservation course, I have realised about the large number of animals and plants that are, unfortunately, endangered in Australia. In many of the classes I have noticed that these species are near from cities … Continue reading
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Habitat Planting in Victoria
It is widely accepted that farm forestry can have a range of benefits to biodiversity. The manager of “The Gums” property near Penshurst, Western Victoria, is acutely aware of the benefits that farm forestry can have for his property and … Continue reading
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Murphy’s Law
In early March this year I helped Dr. Marta Yebra from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) with her research project, remote sensing of fuel properties in the wildland urban interface, at Black Mountain and Mulligans Flats. The … Continue reading
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Reading the Landscape – It’s More than Meet the Eyes
My visits to Lynton’s Farm & Greening Australia at Aranda By: Thiva Douangchanh / u5109463 😀 Studying in another country, not to mention in another hemisphere, with different landscape and climatic conditions means that I have to question and adjust … Continue reading
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Beautiful Booderee: My Fieldwork Experience
When I had the opportunity to go to one of Australia’s favourite National Parks for a field trip this semester, I knew I couldn’t stay away. Booderee National Park, in Jervis Bay, is crawling with cute cuddly animals like the … Continue reading
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A beautiful country
This country have a beautiful land scape and so many cute animals. Because of its isolation, some unique species is only emerged over there, kangaroo, koala, and so on. So let us protect those amazing species, not only for us, … Continue reading
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Among the African Love Grass: Baseline Monitoring of Ground cover at Scottsdale Reserve, NSW
At the beginning of May, I had the pleasure of visiting the extensive revegetation works being carried out at Scottsdale Reserve in New South Wales. Here I was able to witness in action the progress to turn Scottsdale Reserve from … Continue reading
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The importance of biodiversity
The importance of biodiversity Biodiversity is important, everybody know that, but how exactly important is not understood by everyone. For example, human need to eat, eat can bring us energy, eat also can bring us satisfy. A beautiful and delicious … Continue reading
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Fire, a gift or a disaster
Fire, a gift or a disaster We always talk about fire in forest is not good, especially for human being. People will lose their house or get injured. For most animals fire is a disaster. They will lose their habitat, … Continue reading
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