Monthly Archives: May 2014

About a month ago I volunteered with Greening Australia for two days at the Scottsdale Reserve, located just 45 minutes outside of Canberra. Greening Australia is an organisation that aims to restore and manage the environment with the help of … Continue reading →

So who knows anything about bats? What does it make you think of? Wings of the night, vampires and scary dark caves, well this is far from the truth. It was around 4 in the afternoon when I was picked … Continue reading →

Over the last month I have had the pleasure of working with a small and dedicated team known as the “Friends of Mount Majura” (FOMM). This team meets every Friday at 9:30am (also known to most university students as the … Continue reading →

Autumn has rolled in once again, coating the streets with golden, deciduous leaves. With this beautiful phenomenon comes the mildly confusing sounds of suburbia’s most loved invention; the leaf blower (perhaps second to the 10-in-1 Garden Tool). The Leaf Blower … Continue reading →

With a variety of plants and animals, Vietnam is one of the world’s 10 most biologically diverse countries. Although there has been a significant increase in coverage and in the number of protected areas, biodiversity has continued to decline in Viet … Continue reading →

Posted by Emily Lai u5500513 It has been almost three years since I have started pursuing an undergraduate degree in Geography and International Development Studies. For me, one of the primary reasons of choosing to go to university is to … Continue reading →

THWACK! A mountain ash sapling sprung back and hit my side, showering me in water droplets. I’d woken up at 5:30am to drive out and check cage traps in dense regrowth on a steep mountain slope. I was tired, I … Continue reading →

I recently had a very fulfilling (and tiring) experience these uni holidays regenerating degraded farmland with the Green Team and Greening Australia. Scottsdale farm out towards Cooma has been degraded through grazing and agriculture and needed our help to regenerate … Continue reading →